The study, from Riot, the service of Rethink Technology Research is entitled “Smart Home as a Service – Awakened from Sleep by a Deep Voice – Forecast to 2023”.
The forecast found within 5 years, some 165.6 million broadband homes will have purchased at least one smart speaker, housing one of these consumer voice assistants. This is a strong platform on which to build, and one that the CSPs will pursue.
Without embracing Voice CSP SHaaS penetration would not become significant and globally would only rise to a $5.7 billion dollar business by 2023, moving to just 19 million homes. With Voice as their partners we see this rising to 21% of broadband homes, some 51.58 million subscribers by 2023, adding $10 billion in annual revenues to such services.