While many consumers haven’t yet bought into the idea of smart home devices or wearable technology like smartwatches or fitness trackers, those who have are selecting a very wide range of devices.
While Fitbits lead for what consumers wear and Google’s popular Nest thermostats top the list of smart home objects, that doesn’t provide the scope of how widespread the range of products is.
A new piece of research goes deep into the range of both wearables and smart home devices and provides a view of how wide the market is, as consumers select their own products for what could be any number of personal reasons.
The study comprised a survey of 500 U.S. adults from a panel representative of U.S. Census data and was conducted by Rocket Fuel.
For home connected devices, devices from Google’s Nest comprise three of the top five products, though no one product seems to dominate the market. Here’s the list of connected home devices consumers currently own:
28% — Nest learning thermostat
25%– Netatmo Weather Station
25% — Nest Cam
22% — Philips Hue connected bulb
21% — Nest Protect
21% — Other home security device
18% — Belkin WeMo Switch+ Motion
14% — August Smart Lock
14% — Other connected home appliance
11% — Canary (home security)
8% — GE/Quirky Aros smart window air conditioner
For wearable devices, the number of different devices is just as broad, ranging from those from Fitbit to Garmin. Here’s the current breakdown by wearable device currently owned:
55% — Fitbit
23% — Apple Watch
17% — Samsung Gear Fit
16% — Nike+ Fuelband
10% — Omron blood pressure monitor
9% — Microsoft Band
8% — Jawbone Up
8% — Other fitness health tracker
6% — Basis Peak
6% — Garmin Vivofit Fitness Band
5% — Pebble Smartwatch
4% — Other smartwatch
The challenge for advertisers is that many of the connected devices, whether worn or found in the home, have either a small or no screen.
But the advantage is that the devices can be a data source that informs smarter cross-device profiles to determine potential purchase influence points.
And many consumers are fine with sharing data gleaned from their connected devices. Here’s a breakdown of devices that consumers are comfortable or very comfortable in sharing their data and which sources of the data they would be willing to share:
31% — Console gaming data
30% — Media consumption data
29% — Health/fitness data
29% — Retail data
29% — Handheld gaming data
28% — Home management data
28% — Sports training data
26% — Smartwatch data
25% — Driving data
23% — Personal finance data
22% — Home security data
20% — Wireless audio data
While advertising may not come directly through the connected devices, the data from those smart objects can help determine the best messaging to be transmitted through many other avenue

http://www.mediapost.com/publications/article/273325/connected-consumers-55-own-fitbit-28-nest-the.html?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_content=headline&utm_campaign=92010

We’re still super early in the evolution of the Internet of Things. I’m not cautioning consumers against buying into new technology – the only way these devices get better, smarter and more adroit is with mass adoption – but buyers do need to recognize that the world of connected devices is different than unconnected devices.

This stuff isn’t going to last forever and we don’t know what upgrade and support cycles will look like. That’s markedly different than the way we used to buy gadgets. Sure, there was always the risk that a company would drop support for a product 49 days after release, but the risk of a product just not working anymore was significantly less.

In this new era, it’s important to think about the potential that your entire home could just stop working – and planning for those scenarios.

It’s also time for companies behind those products to recognize that the expectations buyers have for their products and the expectations they have for supporting said products aren’t always going to be in alignment.

http://mashable.com/2016/04/04/revolv-smart-home-shutdown/?utm_cid=mash-com-fb-main-link#psiaSD5W1Pq8