By SSI Staff · February 17, 2017 NEW YORK CITY — Smart home households are forecast to increase more than fivefold from 90 million in 2016 to 463 million in 2021, according to new report by Ovum. That marks a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 39% during the forecast period. Ovum’s “Smart Home Devices […]
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