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How Colorado Springs Is Becoming A ‘Smart City’

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Just five years after announcing an initiative to become a “smart city,” Colorado Springs is well on its way to achieving that goal. Thanks to the advent of faster and stronger 5G networks, Colorado Springs has implemented several pieces of innovative technology to improve the daily lives of its residents in a sustainable and more efficient way. Some of these technologies are hidden in plain sight, so most residents won’t even know they exist. And that’s the point. In the following brief video, from the Business Insider YouTube channel we got an inside look at how Colorado Springs is becoming a smart city.

Smart Home Technology Poised for Blockbuster Growth

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Source: Statista

Among the devices Google announced at its big hardware event on Tuesday was the Google Home Hub, a Google Assistant device that resembles Amazon’s Echo Show by adding a screen to create what is essentially a smart speaker on steroids. As its name suggests, the Google Home Hub is supposed to be at the center of the connected home with the ability to control smart home devices from more than a thousand brands.

With smart speakers and smart TVs already seeing mainstream adoption, the fully connected smart home no longer seems like a futuristic dream. According to a recent forecast from IDC, the market for smart home devices is poised for strong growth over the next few years. As the following chart shows, all market segments except for video entertainment (which is already huge) are expected to at least double in size between 2018 and 2022.