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Smart home startup advice : User interface design trends

February 09, 2014

Tom Kerber, director of research at Parks Associates

Three trends I’m watching:

Gateway based abstraction layers (e.g. OSGI, RDK) to provide uniform interface to devices in; Restful APIs for cloud-to-cloud interfaces for third party data sets and manufacturers; and Open APIs with transaction fees to allow OEMs to participate in backend revenue

From the article, "Smart home startup advice : User interface design trends" by Kristen Nicole.

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