Smart Home Competitor Timeline

  • WindRiver teams up with IBM to accelerate Edge-to-cloud IoT deployment for Industrial customers

  • IBM Offers New Hybrid Cloud capabilities for LinuxONE to enable organizations of all sizes to develop, deploy and manage applications for the Clloud simply and efficiently with robust security.

  • IBM Grows Big Data Capabilities after it officially acquires Weather Company

  • IBM Launches Quarks open source Development tool to build Efficient IoT Apps

  • Johnson Controls announced that a medium-sized office building could have hundreds of sensors on its equipment

  • A new residential touch-screen thermostat from the YORK® brand of Johnson Controls, the leader in building automation, keeps homeowners seamlessly connected to their home comfort systems at home or away via their smartphones, tablets or computers.

  • Johnson Controls introduces its first YORK® heat pump, YVAG, for the residential market in China. Condominiums, villas and small commercial buildings can now enjoy energy-efficient cooling and heating using a single appliance, saving costs.

  • IBM and AT&T are joining forces on an IoT initiative, combining computing and global connectivity

  • China is allowing IBM to play an active role in drafting its cybersecurity policies by joining a key commitee under government cyberspace

  • IBM Watson powers wave of Innovation in consumer electronics

  • Honeywell is seeing greater acceptance of technology advancements that are helping the industry achieve impressive growth

  • In an effort to improve cyber-threat information sharing and analysis, Johnson Controls announced a Cooperative Research and Development Agreement with the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS), Office of Cybersecurity and Communications.

  • IBM issued patent on Dynamic Control of Smart Home

  • Johnson Controls will soon be releasing a new kind of controls system, a plug-and-play system with a lower-cost approach that can position mechanical contractors as the end-to-end provider of HVAC/R equipment and intelligent controls.

  • Consumers Digest magazine recently named the YORK®Affinity™ YP9C modulating gas furnace from Johnson Controls a 2016 Best Buy.

  • Honeywell partners with Flowserve to combine domain knowledge of flow management equipment with Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) technology.

  • Honeywell Performance Series 1080p IR cameras monitor operations at Prestage Farms

  • Honeywell Partners with Golden Eagle to Design and Deploy Smart Grid and Smart Building Solutions for Chinese Commercial Properties

  • Honeywell created new Lyric C1 and C2 Wi-Fi Indoor Cameras.

  • Honeywell introduced the INspire ecosystem, an initiative that helps manufacturers leverage the IIoT to improve the safety, efficiency and reliability of operations across a single plant or several plants across an enterprise.