Our Smart Living & Consumer Technologies research service covers all essential consumer-related data information and insights that reveal the use of transformative and innovative technologies across multiple device segments, including mobile and fixed broadband, gaming, and smart home.
Smart Living & Consumer Technologies Coverage Areas
ABI Research’s Smart Living coverage focuses on the role of Artificial Intelligence (AI), connectivity, compute, and other innovations that are at the center of digital transformation of the smart home, home entertainment, healthcare, and other consumer markets.
- Total Addressable Market (TAM) sizing for key device segments, including home automation (e.g., sensors, lighting, cameras, thermostats), smart appliances (e.g., refrigerators, washing machines, countertop appliances), consumer robotics (e.g., robotic lawn mowers, pool cleaners, companion robots), home entertainment devices (e.g., smart TVs, games consoles, streaming devices, audio, set-top boxes), healthcare devices (e.g., Continuous Glucose Monitors (CGMs), Electrocardiograms (ECGs), sleep monitors), and other consumer applications.
- Identify next-generation user experiences and how enabling technologies are fundamentally reshaping human-technology interactions, driving the evolution from device-centric implementations toward seamless, ambient intelligent smart-living environments.
- OEM vendor shares across key market sectors.
- Forecasts for key connectivity technologies, including Wi-Fi, Wi-Fi HaLow, Bluetooth®, Zigbee, Thread, Ultra-Wideband (UWB), Z-Wave, and Matter, among others, alongside how their continued evolution will help enable new user experiences, better performance, or other enhancements for consumer devices.
- Assess the impact of AI-enabled convergence between broadband infrastructure, entertainment, home automation, robotics, and healthcare on the vision of an AI home, and implications for service providers, device Original Equipment Manufacturers (OEMs), and the wider smart home ecosystem.
- Competitive analysis of device OEMs and service providers across home and healthcare applications.
- Regional forecasts.
Smart Living & Consumer Technologies Research Powers Technology Innovation & Implementation
For Innovators
We empower leading OEMs and their suppliers to identify the total market opportunity and future potential through highly granular forecasting for device shipments, connectivity attach rates, AI features, and other critical emerging technologies. Enables technology providers to better understand the competitive landscape and how best to evolve their product portfolio to meet market demands. Provides a long-term outlook into technology transformation and identifies key trends that will disrupt the market. Highlights the potential of new device categories that will drive the market forward. Enables device vendors to identify key partnerships with solution providers. Identify Go-to-Market (GTM) strategies to better target consumer technology applications. Broader analysis of the consumer market and key trends impacting this space, including geopolitical trends, regional variances in technology adoption, spending habits, and supply chain and inventory issues.
For Implementers
We empower smart home and consumer technology implementers to identify the right partnerships to deploy next-generation user experiences and create valuable new services. Enable implementers to identify synergies between multiple markets for a more holistic vision of smart home, entertainment, and healthcare applications. Provides strategic recommendations on how best to enable new consumer-facing user experiences and services via product partnerships, support for Agentic AI, and competivive analysis. Identify new revenue streams, services, and how implementers can transition to new business models.
Our Smart Living & Consumer Technologies Research Helps Solve Real Business Challenges For Key Stakeholders
Connectivity Solution Providers
- What challenges can we help you solve?
- Identify key requirements of different consumer technology use cases to develop optimal solution portfolio to target applications
- Prepare optimal roadmap and product timelines for wireless products based on projected market penetration
- Identify potential gaps in existing wireless portfolios and chipset combinations, the wider wireless competitive landscape, and plan for future technology rollouts
- Understand where sales and marketing resources should be devoted to help build more scalable deployments and justify technology investment
- What key questions can we help you answer?
- What is the opportunity for wireless technologies within the consumer market?
- What are the key requirements of the different device categories?
- What is the optimum product portfolio to address these sectors?
- What does the connectivity competitive landscape look like?
Device OEMs
- What challenges can we help you solve?
- Support actionable planning for market strategies by providing smart living market sizing and forecasts by segment, region, and channel
- Assess impact of technological innovation on smart living development to enable informed product strategies
- Identify the right technology partners to strengthen their product offering
- What key questions can we help you answer?
- What are the opportunities across different device types?
- How will new technologies impact product design and roadmaps?
- What does the competitive landscape look like?
- What new product categories should we be investing in?
Industry Consortia
- What challenges can we help you solve?
- Strengthen industry awareness of technology in key consumer applications to help attract new vendors to the technology
- Identify weak points versus competing standards to help address future technology roadmaps
- Identify areas of collaboration with the wider industry to strengthen against competitive threats and maximize the benefits of technology
- What key questions can we help you answer?
- What can standards bodies do to help accelerate adoption in the consumer market?
- How can organizations partner to solve some of the future challenges?
Service Providers
- What challenges can we help you solve?
- Understand how to enable a more holistic smart home/smart living vision that incorporates the new product categories, new technologies, and AI innovation
- Identify the right technology partnerships and service creation to enhance customer retention and subscription revenue
- Incentivize product and service upgrades through new experience enablement
- Understand how to create a unified vision with the right partnerships, technologies, services, and software to take full advantage
- What key questions can we help you answer?
- What new services can be enabled by future technology innovation?
- What are the key companies to partner with to enable a comprehensive solution?
- How can customer retention be ensured and valuable new services be enabled?
- What will the impact of AI be on the consumer service provider market?