Smart@home

26 Sep 2025 CW Team

Growing demand for convenience, energy-efficiency, comfort and aesthetics in homes is propelling the Indian home automation market to new heights. Near double-digit growth in the next couple of years will take the smart home market to $ 9.2 billion, creating opportunities for a plethora of solution providers, according to Resurgent India and NAREDCO.

Widening scope

As the market expands, automation is gradually spanning every element of a home: lighting, sunshine, shade, temperature, security, entertainment, and so on. Aashita Chadha, Cofounder, The KariGhars, sees automation not just as a layer of useful technology to add to homes but as an invisible concierge that can allow a family to focus on living while it works in the background, intuitively taking care of all these elements...

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Infrastructure Transport

10 Jul 2026

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