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Christian Roche s point of view, as Director of the IoT Business Unit for Rexel France, on the smart home market
Even though this market has not yet reached full maturity, we are experiencing strong growth across our connected products and services offering. Energeasy Connect is our solution designed for the smart home market and it has greatly benefitted from this momentum thanks to the evolution of the new home market: today, real estate developers and single-family home builders systematically want to include a smart home solution in their constructions. For them, it isn t just a matter of meeting a clearly expressed customer need to have access to a range of complementary services in addition to controlling the home s features. The retrofitting market also benefits from opportunities linked to the evolution of smart objects. These offers can be interoperable natively or via gateways enabling them to use the existing equipment. We can now turn an existing installation into a connected one without renovation works and at a relatively low cost. Energeasy Connect is a universal smart home management solution. It is an interoperable home controller connecting the home to the 18 uses included in our offering: basic uses like controlling openings and closures, heating and
lighting, but also alarms, CCTV, automated gates, etc. Concretely, Energeasy Connect regularly integrates new products whose technical evolution represents a fundamental underlying trend. Today, 35 manufacturing partners and more than 1,500 products are involved in equipping smart homes. Our installer customers professions are undergoing considerable change. In response, we are strengthening our technical and commercial support and are organizing informative meetings. More specifically, we have created a training program dedicated to Energeasy Connect. We also offer a new tool dedicated to connected installation professionals. The new EConnect PRO application will allow them to create, enrich, manage and maintain their installations set up with Energeasy Connect. Most of all, it will allow them to stay in touch with their installed hubs and therefore to offer added value and services involving remote surveillance and maintenance.