Early this year, Google announced the US$3.2-billion acquisition of Nest Labs, a maker of smart home sensing control devices like thermostats and smoke alarms. This move has revealed Google’s plan to enter the smart home business, offering software-hardware-service integrations. This report provides an overview of the smart home sensing control technologies, as well as major vendors’ patent deployment and technology trends. Also included is an outlook for the worldwide smart home sensing device market from 2012 to 2020.
