The smart-sound device, driven by American consumers, predicts that the overall installation of smart home appliances in the region will rise from 24 million units in 2016 to 244 million units, up to 2022 years, and a total of 2017-2022 years of smart home appliance installation Annual composite growth rate of 42%. The main kinetic energy that drives the rapid growth of smart home appliances in the United States comes from consumer use of intelligent sound devices such as Amazon Echo, according to Forrester, a research institute. It is estimated that the intelligent audio installation in the United States will grow from 21.3 million units in 2017 to 166 million units in 2022 years. The amount of intelligent audio installation in the overall smart home installation of the proportion, also from 2017 to 50%, ascension to 2022 years of 68%. For now, the Amazon Echo series is the most important intelligent audio product in the United States. Amazon sold more than 11 million echo devices in 2016 and expects sales to double in 2017. Yet the key to the rapid success of the ECHO device is the adoption of Amazon Prime members. The 2017 echo device's penetration rate of Prime members was 28%, and the 2022 estimate would climb to 61%. As far as households are concerned, data show that with the rise of intelligent audio products, the number of American countries installed with intelligent audio products from the 2015 only 800,000 households, rapid growth of 2017 years of 15.3 million households, the estimated 2022 installation households will climb to 66.3 million households, accounting for the total number of households in the United States in 50% . In addition to intelligent home appliances, other than smart speakers installed household number, is from 2015 6 million (higher than the number of installed smart sound households), grew to 2017 years of 9.3 million households (start lower than the installation of smart audio households), and then in 2022 grew to 26.7 million households, Accounted for 20% of the total household. American households in the use of various types of intelligent household devices, with the most intelligent audio, followed by a network of audio devices, as well as intelligent light bulbs and other lighting equipment. Intelligent home appliances, such as smart bulbs or intelligent temperature control devices, can be expected to grow faster than other types of products, such as home monitoring devices. According to the survey, 53% of respondents believed that the monthly service cost of smart home appliances was too high, 42% said that the initial cost was too high, 42% worried that the device would endanger personal privacy, 32% worried about the reliability of such devices in the event of a power outage, and 29% that smart home appliances might instead endanger household safety Another research institute, Juniper, previously estimated that the total cost of global smart home hardware devices and services was $195 billion in 2021. North America, which accounts for 38% of the global market, is the most important smart home hardware and services market.
