Smart home efforts target European telcos and verticals
Dutch telecom operator KPN signed a deal with Deutsche Telekom to offer smart home services in the Netherlands. The service, called KPN Smartlife, was introduced last year via customer trials and is now available to its customer base.
The smart home services are offered through DT’s Connected Home QIVICON platform, which has an open architecture and is designed to integrate with multiple connected devices and support new revenue generating services. The German telco said KPN is the first international telecom operator to offer smart home services via its platform.
“The KPN partnership is part of our strategy to build market share across multiple countries, and through the agreement the Netherlands joins Austria and Germany to expand our presence in Europe,” a DT’s spokesperson told RCR Wireless News. “Telco partnerships are an obvious route to market for our connected home platform QIVICON and therefore, we are naturally reaching out to other European telecoms operators as well, but the field is wide open for other verticals, such as utility and insurance companies, to offer connected home services based on our platform.”
DT’s Connected Home platform was launched in 2013, with Austrian utility company Eww rolling out a connected home offer based on DT’s technology in 2015. DT said more than 40 partners from different sectors including retail, insurance, energy and telecommunications currently use the smart home platform, including Philips, Osram, Miele, Samsung, Huawei, Sonos and Netamo.
