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SMART HOME TECHNOLOGY Amazon PIECE OFFERINGS.

RANK COMPANY INDEX AVG SURVEY DATA SENTIMENT MENTIONS
The biggest shakeup in 2021’s
★ Amazon 2.1 1 12 1 Brand Index comes with solar
components. There’s a new leader,
2 Google 3.2 2 8 4 Schneider Electric, buoyed by a
huge improvement in industry
3 Samsung SmartThings 3.9 4 6 3 image, and a three-company shift.
Fronius is in;
Mercedes-
4 Apple 4.1 3 8 5
Benz and
Tabuchi
5 Control4/SnapAV 6.1 5 10 7 Electric are
TECH TIME? out. Two-
6 Brilliant 7.3 6 1 12 time winner
Apple and Google finish one-two SolarEdge and
7 Savant 7.5 7 3 10 again for a fifth straight year, as runner-up Tesla
smart home tech becomes an lost ground
8 Leviton 7.6 8 4 8 ever-bigger part of our lives. Index overall, but are
scores for all five leaders went up still forces to
significantly from 2020, possibly be reckoned
9 Nortek (ELAN) 8.5 8 4 11 with.
because more people utilized smart
products due to the pandemic.
10 Belkin 9.6 12 6 6
Or, perhaps a population shift to a
younger demographic was the key.

SWITCHING ON.

Except for newcomer SMART SWITCH
ConnectSense, all of last year’s
participants made the list, and RANK COMPANY INDEX AVG SURVEY DATA SENTIMENT MENTIONS
scores and positions throughout
were relatively stable. TP-Link ★ Samsung 1.6 1 7 1
broke up the traditional Samsung-
Lutron-Leviton top three, and 2 TP-Link 2.1 2 3 2
Samsung still has never lost
this category. Like smart home 3 Leviton 3.7 3 4 5
tech, the public embraced
smart switches as it spent more
COVID-19 induced time at home. 4 iDevices 4.7 4 5 6

5 Brilliant 5.5 5 1 8

6 Lutron 5.6 6 8 4

7 Wemo 6.3 8 6 3

8 Etekcity 6.5 7 2 7

Samsung 9 ConnectSense 9 9 9 9

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