Amaya Toman Do you have a smart speaker at home - whether it's Apple's HomePod, Google Home or Amazon Echo? If so, for what purposes do you most often use it? If you control the elements of your smart home with the help of your smart speaker and use it for automation, know that you belong to the minority.
Only six percent of their owners use their smart speakers to control smart home elements, such as light bulbs, smart switches or even thermostats. This was revealed by the latest survey recently published by IHS Markit. Users who own smart speakers stated in the questionnaire that they most often use their devices when they need to find out the current status or weather forecast, or check news and news, or get an answer to a simple question. The third most frequently cited reason was playing and controlling music, even with Apple's HomePod.
Roughly 65% of surveyed users use their smart speakers for the three purposes mentioned above. The topic at the bottom of the graph is placing orders with the help of a smart speaker or controlling other smart devices. "Voice control of smart home devices currently represents a small fraction of total interactions with smart speakers," said Blake Kozak, an analyst at IHS Markit, adding that this could change over time as the number of devices grows. responding to voice commands, and how home automation will expand.
The spread of smart homes could also help the increased use of products for insurance purposes, such as devices that monitor water leaks or valve caps. Kozak predicts that by the end of this year, roughly one million insurance policies in North America could include support for smart devices, with around 450 smart speakers able to have direct connections to insurance companies.
The creators of the questionnaire addressed the owners of the most popular products and voice assistants, such as HomePod and Siri, Google Home with Google Assistant and Amazon Echo with Alexa, but the survey did not miss Samsung's Bixby and Microsoft's Cortana. The most popular assistant is Alexa from Amazon - the number of its owners is 40% of all respondents. The second place was taken by Google Assistant, Apple's Siri came in third. A total of 937 smart speaker owners from the United States, Great Britain, Japan, Germany and Brazil participated in the survey conducted by IHS Markit between March and April of this year.
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