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In our latest white paper, “Creating and Measuring Consumer Value,” we reveal how real-time, unbiased insights can transform your smart home strategy by fueling marketing, enhancing customer engagement, and optimizing product roadmaps.
 

Discover how to move beyond outdated KPIs to new metrics that reveal true customer value, helping you make faster, smarter decisions and drive growth in the competitive smart home market.

This technical brief focuses on integrating the Holios platform with Amazon’s Alexa Connect Kit (ACK) – Amazon’s connectivity solution for smart home devices. This document showcases how Holios seamlessly integrates with ACK-based devices to capture rich interaction data.

The result is a powerful combination: devices retain all the benefits of building on the Alexa enabled platform, and Holios augments them with advanced analytics on user interactions and device performance.

Are your most critical product decisions made with limited real-world data? This brief is for product managers navigating the pressure to build a successful roadmap based on proven customer demand. Discover how to move beyond assumptions and gain clear, actionable insights into how users are actually engaging with your devices.
 

Learn how to:

• Validate features and retire those with low-value.

• Optimize your roadmap with data-backed evidence.

• Increase feature adoption and improve user satisfaction.

Discover how Holios helped Black+Decker’s Smart UCL program turn real-time analytics into strategic business decisions. This case study reveals how data insights fueled:
 

• 10% YoY increase in activations

• 44% SKU growth

• enhanced user engagement by 40%
   

transforming static reports into actionable intelligence.

In summary, the report explains that the EU Data Act aims to make IoT-generated data more accessible, giving users and third parties rights to access and share operational data. While the Act took effect in January 2024 and became largely applicable in September 2025, adoption across EU member states has been uneven—only a few countries have finalized national enforcement mechanisms. Meanwhile, major OEMs like Bosch and Siemens have begun publishing data-access statements and piloting compliance initiatives, signalling early momentum.