What many people in Nairobi should realize is that they already have a smart device at home. If you have android TV set then you have started building your smart home. You just need to add few things and the home will start working for you.
Smart homes can be used to manage homes of elderly parents elsewhere. You can use them to improve their home security and safety. They can be used to manage your farm, monitor the farm, irrigate, light, check temperature for green house gases and in some cases even adjust the temperature remotely. Therefore it does not matter you have a Farm in Nakuru or Nanyuki you can manage it quite well remotely.
Smart homes is a very wide industry with different players focusing in diverse automations. Talinda for instance can do both wired and wireless systems, Smart- home has very good audio distributions systems and Flint have wonderful lighting systems.
Smart Homes industry also includes audio and video distribution, gate and home security automations. The market shows trends that smart home clients are also keen on getting audio distribution on their homes.
Smart homes is an umbrella term for smart technology that can also be used in smart building technologies, hotel in what is called Guest room management and even in Estate management. The idea of smart homes, control and surveillance is what has inspired the creation of smart cities. Smart homes create ability for devices to communicate with each other and carry out commands to achieve scenes and automations.
According to Statista, smart home industry is growing by 8% annually. The market is expected to hit Ksh 5.46 billion by 2027 in Kenya. The website analysis shows that by 2027, there might be 1, 500, 000 smart home users. Though Kenya is very promising in adoption of smart homes, in East Africa and maybe the second or third in sub-saharan Africa, USA continues to lead in the market size of Smart Homes globally.