Take Smart Door Lock as an example, Schlage introduced Sense Smart Deadbolt as the Apple HomeKit accessory in October 2015. This year the company appeared in a different manner on CES, which was supported by Alexa before the holiday shopping season, Joined Google Assistant in early 2018. Brinks, another smart lock company, will first get support from Amazon Alexa, then add HomeKit and Google Assistant.
Another example is Lutron, a maker of smart home accessories that was one of the first companies to launch HomeKit accessories in June 2015 and even developed the Apple Watch app, but at this year's CES Lutron focused on selling its Amazon Echo Support and integration Amazon's Alexa's Sonos One, whose 'alliance with Nest' integrates Caseta Wireless system control with Nest's cameras and security products.
At HomeKit, which looks likely to be the market leader anyhow, it seems a bit bleak to Alex at this time, which seems to be more favorable to Alexa.Many companies, including Kohler, have decided to integrate smart home accessories To the market, and integrating Alexa is becoming a major selling point, though it promises to be compatible with HomeKit, Google Assistant and Microsoft Cortana.
Elgato, on the other hand, has chosen HomeKit for its Eve line of smart home accessories Elgato is using the CES stage to showcase new products including the second-generation Eve Room, a $ 100 air quality, temperature and humidity monitor With an E Ink screen, scheduled for release in March, and the $ 50 Home Button remote controller Eve Button, which will be released later this month, which will get you on three different HomeKit drivers Switch between room settings without using an iOS device as a controller, though it requires the HomeKit hub developed by Apple.
After announcing its support for HomeKit, another longtime Apple partner, Belkin, finally threw bait on HomeKit users. Belkin developed a Wemo smart home accessory that eliminates HomeKit's support and publicly denied that it would allow Wemo to work with HomeKit However, the company subsequently released WeMorn Bridge, a secure mini-router that lets HomeKit control our products but missed the fall 2017 delivery date.
Last night, Belkin was on sale for $ 40 at the CES and will be available later this week, while recent Wemo accessories such as the Wi-Fi Smart Dimmer and Insight Smart Plug, Alexa and Assistant are integrated support, and only need Wemo Bridge to connect HomeKit.
In recent years, support for Apple's exclusive accessory standard is becoming more and more dangerous for third-party developers, who initially introduced a wireless speaker standard called AirPlay but lags behind latency lags and connectivity issues that make the adoption of the standard Of expensive third-party speakers, Apple also introduced the Lightning connector, which requires partners to get Apple's approval first, while accessories based on Bluetooth and USB standards take off in the market because they are cheap and attractive Apple and non-Apple users, and Apple should be wary of HomeKit becoming another 'lame product'.