Origin have just announced plans for a ‘budget’ smart home kit, but is it really all that? At just $199 and including a smart bulb, plugs and motion sensors, it does seem like the perfect, economical, way to get into the smart home game.
Is the Aussie smart home getting closer?
Since the release of Google Home in Australia in July, some of Australia’s household known big companies like Telstra, Optus, Officeworks and JB-Hifi have all started stocking connected home ‘related’ products. The Australian Market is still a enormous way away from the counterpart market in the US, or even the UK.