Episode 1 - Healthy Homes in the Age of Staying Home

Plugged In: A Guidehouse Insights Podcast

This month, we have the honor of speaking with principal research analyst Bill Hughes about “healthy homes.”

Bill’s work focuses on building automation and control within the built environment practice area. His background includes 3 decades of experience in technology marketing and strategy business planning.

During this episode, Bill breaks down what a healthy home is and how it fits into the broader category of smart homes. He delves into aspects of healthy homes including indoor air quality, consumer home health equipment, telemedicine, and more. The global revenue for this market is significant—comparable to that of advanced thermostats.

Even though consumer health is a strong driver for investment in healthy home technologies, barriers exist to further developing the healthy home marketplace. The wide range of solutions and corresponding price points confuses customers—choice overload, if you will. Supply chain problems and skilled labor shortages have affected technology production. And many of the long-term health benefits of using healthy home technologies are often not realized for years. People may not recognize the importance of a “healthy home” in the context of their present well-being.

In this episode, Bill helps us unravel the different healthy home products, how to use them, how regionality affects which ones are most important, what makes healthy home technologies more pertinent today in 2023, the relationship between net-zero homes and healthy homes, and more.

For further in-depth reading, the Guidehouse Insights report Market Data: Healthy Homes examines how the healthy home segment of the smart home device market will develop across five global regions—North America, Europe, Asia Pacific, Latin America, and the Middle East & Africa. Forecasts for the 10-year period between 2022 and 2031 are segmented by region and product category.