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2018 READERS’ CHOICE




                   SURVEY RESULTS




                   Who are the greenest ones of all? Find out in


                   our annual survey of building professionals.



                   Note: Results as presented include only companies that received approximately 3 percent or more of total vote within a given category.




                   Which company oers the                                 Which company oers the
                   best SMART HOME                                         best SMART THERMOSTAT

                   TECHNOLOGY platform?                                    products?



                   Amazon Alexa                           45.3%            Nest                                          49.1%

                   Google Home                            24.1%            Honeywell                                     20.3%
                   Samsung SmartThings                    9.4%             Bosch       99                                9.9%

                   Apple HomeKit         90               9.0%             ecobee      90                                9.0%

                   Belkin                                 3.3%             Sensi       47                                4.7%
                   Leviton                                3.3%

                                                                           Smart moves. As our Cognition Smart Data analysis of the
                                                                           smart thermostat market has shown, Nest entered this niche
                   Force of will. These results may not surprise anyone.   early, and has tracked consumer behavior closely. By tying its
                   Both Amazon and Google have spent vast sums             thermostat sales to utility rebates and later, by dropping prices
                   attempting to dominate the emerging white space of      to the “will buy” threshhold, it leads the pack. Honeywell,
                   smart home tech. They are certainly the best known      meanwhile, is cleverly reinventing a category it ruled for
                   systems, but our respondents also consider them the     decades. Behind them, it’s a new frontier, as Bosch, ecobee and
                   “best” products. Does market pre-eminence               Sensi seek a larger claim.
                   automatically confer consumer confidence? If so,
                   their marketing dollars have been well spent.           Nest 49.1%
                   Amazon Alexa



                   45.3%









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