In the lack of smart home interoperability, users have to find ways to link their smart home systems together. IFTTT for If This Then That is a good way to do it : more and more brands and products are easily connected thanks to it especially in energy management systems.

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Founded :
December 2010
For the connected
and smart home
San Francisco, CA

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Quick reminder

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Purpose of this analysis
Smart Home market is expected to skyrocket but some real brakes are slowing the market :
- Technology is difficult to understand for mass market
- Often perceived as expensive
- Not always a real interest in it : gadget image
But for the existing consumers and the expected buyers, the lack of interoperability is the most
frustrating loophole :
“ MAKES MY STUFFS WORKS TOGETHER ! “
• Nest : hey Hue Philips, can you shine ?
• Hue Philips : nope, not talking to you, I don’t know you !
• Nest : shit ! Well, I’m going to warm up everything then !
But wait, we know each other, look, you’re on IFTTT as well !
• Hue Philips : oh you’re right, hey buddy, what can I do for you ?

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IFTTT has now 63 connected home channels !
Among the 63 channels, below are those we chose to highlight :

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See how best selling smart home solutions are used :
Nest use case :

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Nest popular recipes :
They want to :
These features are missing in the Nest product datasheet so far but thanks to IFTTT, users can increase the
level of smart home integration of their smart thermostat.
Be alerted
Keep a track of their
data
Link their thermostat
to smart lights
Use geofencing
features

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Voice control is becoming more and more trending
Thanks to Amazon Alexa but also Ubi, IFTTT users can control their smart home with voice
command :

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Smart home for energy management with IFTTT
Several energy management systems are integrated into IFTTT;
Now let’s check the most used “recipes” to identify the needs in energy management system that
are missing into the smart home systems here :
- Geofencing
- Dedicated alerts and notifications
- Link between various brands and smart home solutions
- Calendar and data tracks

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Geofencing
• When it comes to smart thermostat,
the ability to turn on/off the thermostat
based on the position of the user is a
feature that matters for many users
• Ecobee, ThermoSmart, Honeywell,
Nest and Wattio are offering smart
thermostats but there is no geofencing
feature : IFTTT is the solution

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Alerts and notifications
• All the available smart thermostats
don’t have the ability to notify and alert
their users.
• IFTTT channels show us that this is
demanded feature among the users

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Link between different smart home solutions
• Interoperability is perfectly
represented here when we consider
different brands linked together thanks
to IFTTT
• Some users increase the integration
of their energy management systems
with sensors, smartplugs, smoke
detectors, smart lights ….

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Energy management use case : Calendar and data tracks
• Even if scheduling and calendar
features are represented in the smart
thermostats, users like to have their
google calendar with their smart
device
• They are also interested in keeping a
track of their datas; for instance with
their google drive account

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Conclusion
• Without a clear interoperability in many smart home solutions, IFTTT appears to be a good alternative to
makes things work together, especially in energy management systems.
• There are also others emerging efforts to develop a widespread interoperability among brands / products
and solutions :