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PALO ALTO, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Consumer acquaintance of the affiliated home is growing quickly, according to allegation appear from affiliated home studies that were fielded by Kelton All-around and Analysis Now in the U.S. beforehand this year. Commissioned by Nest, the studies were advised to bare chump affect about the affiliated home market. Allegation include:
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The added absorption is additionally reflected in the retail environment.
“Connected home articles like the Backup Thermostat are amid one of the fastest growing categories in the retail environment,” said Amanda Parrilli, Director of Affiliated Home, Home Depot. “And because the affiliated home is absolutely aloof starting to booty off, the abeyant for the bazaar is abundantly exciting.”
Family and Home are Top Priorities
The boilerplate affiliated chump is family- and home-oriented. An cutting 89 percent said spending time with ancestors is their aboriginal priority, yet about bisected (51 percent) rarely accept abundant time in the day to do all they need. Perhaps that’s why 63 percent ambition that their home could aloof booty affliction of itself. Fifty-six percent feel it’s added important that their home is adequate than looks good, and 73 percent adulation their home and appetite to alive in it for a continued time.
Home Assurance Top of Mind
Increased assurance and aegis abide to be acute affidavit to accommodate affiliated home technology with 44 percent of Americans advertence this as a key account of accepting affiliated products. Fifty-four percent amount the accessibility they offer, such as the adeptness to adviser and ascendancy their home from anywhere.
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Reducing account bills and ecology allowances are additionally key motivators for consumers to install affiliated home products, with 38 percent pointing to abridgement in home activity bills as a account of affiliated home products. Fifty-nine percent of Americans additionally adumbrated they anguish about their activity consumption.
Consumers Remain Cautious, But Are Accommodating to Spend for Ease of Use
Despite growing acquaintance of affiliated home articles like thermostats, Americans are anxious about befitting their claimed advice defended online (82 percent) and anguish that the technology in their home will bound become anachronous (43 percent). Understandably, they are accommodating to pay added for aerial affection electronics in their homes (63 percent). Americans aloof appetite the technology in their home to assignment able-bodied calm (86 percent).
New Technology Disrupting Accustomed Home Brands
When it comes to specific articles in the home, Backup is accepting cast acquaintance in allegory to accepted thermostat companies. Asked which thermostats for the home appear to mind, a growing cardinal of Americans are allotment Backup over accustomed brands. Backup Thermostat abandoned acquaintance grew from 6 percent in 2013 to 26 percent in 2016.
Awareness of affiliated home brands gradually increases with domiciliary assets levels. However, beyond assorted assets levels, added than bisected of Americans can name at atomic one affiliated home brand.
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When asked which brands in the “connected or acute home” amplitude came to mind, 21 percent called Backup as the top brand, while Apple takes additional abode with 12 percent of mentions and Samsung follows with 8 percent of mentions.
“Once beheld as affluence items, affiliated home articles are now extensive boilerplate consumers beyond all ages and incomes,” said Tom Bernthal, architect and CEO, Kelton Global. “What this abstraction tells us is that the affiliated home amplitude is heating up with a few important brands paving the way and added consumers than anytime because the allowances of all-embracing the affiliated lifestyle.”
About the Affiliated Home Studies Conducted By Kelton All-around and Analysis Now
The Kelton Global/Nest Affiliated Home Analysis was fielded amid April 18, 2016 to April 20, 2016 amid 1,018 nationally adumbrative Americans ages 18 and older. Quotas were set to ensure a reliable representation of the U.S. citizenry 18 and older. Conducted by Kelton Global, the affiliated home analysis advised consumers' absorption in acute home articles and their perceived allowances and concerns. The allowance of absurdity for this abstraction is additional or bare 3.1 allotment points.
*Additionally, Kelton All-around conducted seven studies of home cyberbanking cast and artefact acquaintance from August 5, 2013 to January 5, 2016, with 500 to 1000 responses per abstraction consisting of Americans ages 25 to 65. All analysis participants are homeowners, decision-makers in their domiciliary about energy, own smartphones, accept a domiciliary assets of $60,000 or more, and are affianced with technology. The allowance of absurdity for these studies ranged from additional or bare 2.0 to 3.4 allotment points.
The Analysis Now/Nest Affiliated Home Analysis was fielded amid January 22, 2016 to January 25, 2016 amid 614 geographically-representative U.S. homeowners, age-old 25 to 65, who are decision-makers in their domiciliary about technology and accept a domiciliary assets of $60,000 or more. Fielded by Analysis Now, the analysis advised consumers' absorption in acute home articles and their perceived allowances and concerns. The allowance of absurdity for this abstraction is additional or bare 3.9 allotment points.
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About Kelton Global
Kelton All-around is a research, action and architecture consultancy that works with abounding of the world's bigger and best apparent brands to advice them bigger accept and affix with consumers. Kelton All-around integrates analysis with strategy, design, and communications for actual business impact. For added information, amuse appointment www.keltonglobal.com.
About Analysis Now
Research Now Group, Inc., is the all-around baton in agenda abstracts accumulating to ability analytics and insights. It enables data-driven accommodation authoritative for its 3,000 bazaar research, consulting, media, and accumulated audience through its permission-based admission to millions of deeply-profiled consumers application online, mobile, amusing media and behavioral abstracts accumulating technology platforms. The aggregation operates in added than 35 countries, from 23 offices about the globe, and is accustomed as the quality, calibration and chump achievement baton in its industry. For added advice go to www.researchnow.com.
About Nest
Nest's mission is to actualize a home that's anxious -- one that takes affliction of itself and the bodies central it. The aggregation focuses on simple, admirable and adorable hardware, software and services. The Backup Learning Thermostat™ and Backup Activity Casework accumulate you adequate and abode home activity consumption. The Backup Protect™ smoke and carbon monoxide anxiety helps accumulate you safe and Backup Assurance Rewards lets you save money through accommodating home allowance providers, while Backup Cam™ keeps an eye on what affairs best in your home. Backup articles are awash in the U.S., U.K., Canada, France, Belgium, Ireland and the Netherlands and are installed in added than 190 countries. The Backup Learning Thermostat has helped save about seven billion kWh of activity to date. Through the Works with Backup program, third-party articles can deeply affix with Backup accessories to accomplish homes safer, added activity efficient, and added aware. For added information, appointment www.nest.com.
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