ProSource Forms Committee To Develop Approach to DIY Smart Home Market
Consumer electronics buying group ProSource formed a committee of vendors, members and a consultant company led by Savant founder Jim Carroll to explore how the buying group will participate in IoT, ProSource CEO David Workman told us at the group’s…
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spring meeting here in Dana Point, California. It’s the first time ProSource has created a committee that involves vendor partners and select dealer members, Workman said. The group, meeting for the first time in Dana Point, will “try to decide and establish which direction this is all going,” Workman said of the IoT market. “It’s just a stew right now of a bunch of ideas for product and different versions of the truth. We want to progress but do so cautiously and carefully trying to understand how the market is going to develop,” he said. The intriguing unknown for ProSource and industry watchers is how Amazon’s Alexa voice engine and the Echo devices fit into the home automation picture. “The Echo has been a revelation and is generating a huge amount of ongoing interest,” NPD analyst Stephen Baker told us. At some point, that interest will accelerate into “lots of other kinds of individual products,” he said.