The number of smart homes in Europe and North America reached 105mn in 2021, says Berg

Gothenburg, Sweden. 20 April 2022 – The number smart homes in Europe and North America reached 105.0 million in 2021. This is according to a new research report from the

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Professionally monitored alarm systems in Europe and North America reached over 49mn at the end of 2020

Gothenburg, Sweden. 21December 2021 – Berg Insight, the IoT market research provider, released new findings about the market for home and small business security systems. The number of professionally monitored

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Monitored alarm systems in Europe and North America reached 46 million at the end of 2018

Berg Insight, the M2M/IoT market research provider, released new findings about the market for connected security applications. The number of monitored alarm systems in Europe is forecasted to grow from

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Smart homes in Europe and North America to total 179mn in 2024

According to a new research report from the IoT analyst firm Berg Insight, the number smart homes in Europe and North America reached 102.6 million in 2020.

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Google spends $450mn on ADT to integrate Nest-based home security

Google’s Nest hardware is to be combined with ADT’s security, professional installation and monitoring service. The goal is to create a fully integrated set of devices, software and services for

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Monitored alarm systems in Europe and North America reached 46mn at the end of 2018

Berg Insight, the M2M/IoT market research provider, released new findings about the market for connected security applications.

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CSP sales channels will be sidelined in US$21.3bn smart home device market by 2024, says Rethink

In key geographic markets, smart home device sales will reach 356.3 million units annually in 2024, accounting for 80.2 million total smart homes. This represents an installed base of 1.33 billion smart home

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Alexa Guard makes waves for DIY security and insurance – but only a ripple for security providers

Announced last week by Amazon, Alexa Guard turns any Amazon Echo into a security device, using what the company calls “guard mode.”

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The number of smart homes in Europe and North America reached 45mn in 2017, says Berg

According to a new research report from the IoT analyst firm Berg Insight, the number smart homes in Europe and North America reached 45 million in 2017.

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Smart thermostats gain traction in Europe and North America

Berg Insight, the M2M/IoT market research provider, released new findings about the smart thermostat market. The number of North American and European homes with a smart thermostat grew by 67%

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Vivint, ADT, AT&T and Comcast head a US list of ‘Top 10 smart home service providers’

Strategy Analytics has released the results of its competitive analysis of US providers of fee-based smart home services such as self-monitoring, notification, automation and energy management services — apart from

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Proprietary wireless technologies: do they still have a place in home automation?

A new study from IMS Research, recently acquired by IHS, projects that just 10 per cent of the smart home nodes that will be deployed during the period 2010 to

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Connected energy, fleet and industrial sectors are accelerating M2M growth, says Yankee Group report

By 2016, global cellular M2M connections will balloon to 313 million, says a Yankee Group analyst, as more enterprises and consumers realise business benefits and improved experiences from connected devices.

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