today I'm going to walk through five trends in the smart home industry that
we're so impactful to the way 2019 went but also in the way 2020 and Beyond will
go hello Automaters thanks for tuning in again I'm Brian from automate your life
and today I'm going to take the frustration out of automation by keeping
clear what was really important in 2019 so we can make the best decisions going
forward in 2020 in our smart home number five is the word privacy and we started
out the year in really a Wild West fashion except the difference between
you know 2019 and other years was that the amount of money being spent in this
industry was huge and the amount of smart speakers and smart displays and
smart cameras being sold had just increased so much that the word privacy
really started to hit home and companies like Google Amazon and Apple were hit
specifically really hard in early to middle of the year about their privacy
policies their devices themselves and really the industry was hammered on how
they were designing devices so what we saw happen was things like shutters on
smart displays show up the echo show five versus the second generation in the
previous year there's a big difference there and even those policies had to be
taken back almost a formula and the settings and capabilities that were
being given to consumers had to change the fourth trend to talk about is really
the rise of the small to medium size automation company or manufacturer and
why is this the best example of this but there are many examples in 2019 many
more than any other year and this is so important because when you look at a
company like wise they went from a company that had a great product in the
Wyze camera but now have been able to drive innovation to drive changes in the
industry with their pricing model and also to even start to create their own
standards and their own capabilities within their platform and now start the
expansion process out but this is driving massive innovation in the
industry and it's driving a lot of new people and new ideas
into the industry as well as I walk through this list I want you to think
about what was the biggest impact to your smart home in 2019 and what will
have the biggest impact going forward and I want you to leave that down in the
comments below as I develop additional series about these trends on automate
your life number three is the drive down to localized processing and localized
capabilities and this is such an important trend at this level with these
manufacturers yes this has existed in niche products in niche markets for a
while but what's really important is we're starting to see companies like
Google and Amazon recognize that this is important for reliability overall
processing capability and what people want that that speed of the smart home
that has to be there and the real smarts behind it as well so we've seen this
drive down we haven't seen the impacts yet in a lot of the systems that has
started to show up in platforms like Samsung smartthings but we will see this
in 2020 really start to take hold of the industry the second biggest trend in the
industry has really come out very recently with the announcement from
Amazon Google and Apple and the ZigBee Alliance all working together to create
that kind of application layer standard that will drive a lot of these products
able to kind of work together in 2021 and beyond now the thing that's been
going on in 2019 that's been so important is the coming together that
has created that scenario and I've been talking about dot dot and thread and how
ZigBee over IP is so important and how using the same transceivers and and
really the same base protocol that 802.15.4 all of that has been slowly
coming together over 2019 and prior but lots of the big components came together
in 2019 to give us this opportunity to have the industry come together and
create really what we need which is one standard to rule them all the biggest
trend in the industry is way different than the other ones that I've been
talking about so far it's actually Amazon's dominance they solidified
something here in quarter three and I'm sure in quarter four given what I've
seen already in the smart speaker smart displays and lots of their smart
products in general they really solidified their position in the market
and they they took full advantage of all of their capabilities and all of their
best features so they solidified their products they created a lineup that fits
almost every situation in your household and they have created some extra
features and updates that have been very quietly improving their products to a
point where it's hard to ignore and with their massive access to people on the
Amazon website in general they've been able to push so many of those products
that their dominance in smart speakers and displays is probably assured for a
few years now if you'd like to hear more about this a more in depth analysis I
actually have a patreon group full of some great people who I appreciate your
support guys they're all there and they get access to more in-depth videos on a
monthly basis here from me this is a great example where I've kind of gone
much deeper into what happened in the industry and at the start of the year
I'll go much deeper into what's going to happen in 2020 so they have access to
that otherwise what it would recommend are actually two different videos here
number one the smart home the state of the smart home industry in general is a
great breakdown of where we're at and where we're going and then on top of
that if you want to learn more about this new connectivity standard that I
talked about that's up on screen as well a great update for you there otherwise
guys thanks for watching and of course don't hate automate