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home automation, smart appliances, streaming entertainment, or energy and utility devices, all your needs will be met with a full selection of available connected options. Mouser provides an entire solution through its stocked Molex products, matching functionality with design and performance. In this eBook, you will learn more about the connected home—both where it's been and where the concept is headed. You'll understand how a connected home links to the Internet of Things, and what options are available for someone looking to link smart devices to a dynamic living space. Most importantly, you'll find Molex solutions that Mouser provides, blending your life and home into a seamless, networked experience that functions on your terms. With this eBook, Mouser and Molex give you the power to take the future into your own hands. By 2022, the global Smart Home market is expected to reach $53 billion in value, allowing more and more people to interact seamlessly with their devices and living space. It's the right time for this growth, as well. Society is currently in a transitional period, shifting from the enabled home of the late 1900s where features on appliances and devices greatly increased, to the proactive home of the future that will actively predict what each resident wants and then accomplish that task. The connected home is a necessary intermediary as we develop technology to not only have our homes react to us, but to do it without human interaction. It all starts with Smart Home devices— something one out of every four internet users already owns. Through these devices, we can control our home's temperature, whether the lights go on or off, and what radio station is playing. We can even see what's inside the refrigerator without needing to touch the appliance at all. And often, these capabilities are linked to nothing but our voice or a simple fingerprint, allowing us to feel more in control of what's happening in our personal lives. Not to mention the sense of safety and security that comes with knowing how quickly we can control vital parts of our living space. With a connected home, a weight is lifted off our shoulders, as we no longer have to worry about adding to a massive to-do list; rather, the afterthoughts of daily life become a seamless routine. The power of a Smart Home is practically limitless. Through artificial intelligence and the ever-increasing ability of machines to learn our preferences, the way we interact with our living spaces will become a fully rounded experience, where the home can listen and understand—and even eventually reason with itself about what we would like to have happen and when. Gartner, Inc., predicts that more than 500 smart devices will be in individual homes by 2022, and as connected homes evolve, all of those devices will be able to interact with one another as we interact with them. Mouser Electronics is a clear leader in the Smart Home industry, boasting a portfolio of more than 100,000 well-tested reliable Molex products and solutions for connecting living spaces. Whether that means security and surveillance systems, James Blankley Molex Industry Marketing Analyst FOREWORD Welcoming the Connected Home James started at Molex in 2010 as an intern with a double major in International Business and Marketing. His experience at Molex includes customer service and lead management, where he developed leads for field sales by creating and launching marketing campaigns for the Connected Home and other specific markets. In his current role James is responsible for global marketing for Connected Home and business development in the Americas. He also has a focus on Augmented and Virtual Reality. 3

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