Smart and Connected home are trending topics and when smart home meets smartwatch, what's the result ? The Applewatch is gaining more and more attention within the connected home industry as many players have launched an App to control their solutions. But is it just a marketing buzz, a gadget or a real help for smart home owners ?

1. Command & Control your home from the wrist
Is the smartwatch becoming a remote for the smart home ?
Applewatch use cases

2. Applewatch apps for the smart home
• Released in April (10th) 2015
• 4.2 million smartwatches sold in 2015 Q2, the bestselling
wearable device
• More and more brands from the connected home industry are
launching their App
SmartThings
Philips Hue
Lutron
Insteon
Alarm.com
Wink
Savant
Honeywell
Nest
miGenie
Ecobee
WeMo belkin
PEQ
August

3. Use cases for smart and connected lights
• Philips Hue, Lutron Caseta

4. Energy management : smart thermostats
• Nest, miGenie

5. Energy management : smart thermostats
• Ecobee 3, Lyric

6. Smart home platforms :
• Insteon
-Check the statut of your
home
- Control some devices
- Monitor your home with
notifications for motion
and door sensors

7. Smart home platforms :
• Alarm.com
-Check the
statut of your
home and the
connected
devices you
control
-Command
your
thermostat
-Control your
lights
-Alarm.com is about home
automation for security : you
can check that your house is
safe and locked

8. Smart home platforms :
• SmartThings
Don’t miss the latest mails with
your applewatch !

9. Smart home platforms :
• Peq
Peq platform was among the
first to release an App to
control your devices from your
AppleWatch with a “tile
windows ” style

10. Smart home platforms :
• Wink
Even if Wink is maybe going to change a little bit after Quirky have filed for
bankruptcy, the app allows their users to control their preferred commands

11. • Savant
Smart home platforms :
Savant, a smart home company in the
luxury and mid market is offering an
integrated home automation platform
with basics commands from the
Applewatch

12. Use cases for other smart home Apps
• Security with door locks • Connected devices : lights,
smartplugs, sensors, camera
August smart lock
from the App
Withings
home for a
connected
camera
WeMo
Belkin App

13. Interesting options
This remote can tap into tons of AV devices, as
well as smart home solutions from Insteon,
Nest, Lutron, SmartThings, Phillips, TiVo and
more—up to 10 different devices. It can even
group Rooms, Activities and Virtual Remotes.
•Roomie Remote :
universal remote control
•The IFTTT alternative :
Do Button

14. Perspectives
Gadget or real value for
the consumer ?
Some features matters. The wearable option for the smart
home means :
- One click for one command
- One notification for one alert
- The remote you won’t loose (because it cost more than 400
bucks and because you’re supposed to wear it)