Across the smart home market the popularity and flexibility of mobile devices and their supporting app infrastructure has clearly underpinned the development of smart home functionality as an increasingly mainstream market. However as the smart home market develops, key mobile device and mobile operating systems players are increasingly leveraging their mobile device strength to stake out their own claim within the smart home market. Apple, Google, Microsoft, Samsung, and others all invested in and developed smart home strategies that will impact the landscape of the smart home market significantly.
This report examines the intersection between the smart home and the mobile markets and how the functionality and development of both are increasingly drawing the smart home space into the direct domain of mobile device and platform players.