Smart Home Technologies will need to think about baking security into their systems, as hackers are increasingly seeing connected devices as a ‘weak link’ and easy way into a person’s network and stored data.
Smart Devices as standalone devices are virtually pointless. If one device cannot connect to multiple others it defeats its own purpose. In the next year smart devices will become more interconnected.
We are globally going to begin to harness Internet of Things as a whole. Currently our homes are full of internet connected devices, in 2017 we will merge the technologies and realise how they can better work together and in a smarter way.