In your opinion, at what point in the maturity cycle is Smart Home technology?

Question

Smart House

I see that the questions on the topic of "Smart Home" are a year or two years old. Interested in the opinion of the community, what is the reason?
There is a famous chart. What do you think - where is the Russian consumer?

Answer 1

I can answer as a consumer: I have not yet become so lazy that it was difficult for me to reach the switch and I have not gone crazy enough to connect the ventilation and water supply system to the network using a Chinese leaky router.
There are, of course, niches where you can automate something in everyday life, but I would not call it a "smart home".
And in general, it seems to me that the title itself is a marketing miscalculation. Now there are so many "smart" things divorced (I recently saw a smart mop) that people's trust in the prefixes "smart" is very low. And nifiga these technologies are not "smart" in fact. When they see a "smart home", they mean either something soldered from acorns and matches, or something hellishly expensive, and most importantly, what the hell is unnecessary.
In some ways, but in the technology of everyday life, the 20th century gave people a lot of useful things, which there is simply nowhere to improve. From a marketing point of view, I would generally avoid the concept of "smart home", and would resort to the more neutral word "automatic".

Answer 2

Russian consumer? IMHO below the point of disappointment - the level of demand for the Smart Home is now like an expensive, interesting, but really unnecessary feature. Engaged either enthusiasts or extremely wealthy people.
Crisis on crisis, misunderstanding of necessity and usefulness, really inflated prices. Elements like Xiaomi are promoted, but they are all toys.

Answer 3

"smart home" is a newborn thing in diapers. now there is only industrial automation, for which large factories and industries do not spare money.
And for home use there are only a few toys or diy on atmel / ST / Texas .... No one will install industrial PLCs at home, at least because of their price. And if there are some units that have nowhere to put the dough, but even there the implementation is a stupidly linear scenario, which is enough for everyone's favorite atmega 328p.