Homes

WHAT'S NEXT?: The number of smart homes is expected to grow further and by 2020 it is expected 46.2 million homes in the US and 44.9 million in Europe will be classed as smart homes. By 2022 there could be nearly 500 smart devices that can be connected to a smart home.

[New] Rates of LBW reduction worldwide will need to more than double to reach the annual rate of reduction of 2 · 74% required to meet the ambitious global nutrition target of 30% reduction of LBW by 2025.
[New] Ghana unveiled plans for the Hope City - Hope is an acronym of Home, Office, People and Environment - a $10bn fantasy that would be home to Africa's tallest building.
[New] The accelerating smart meter roll-out, growing awareness of the energy crisis coupled with the European directive to reduce 80% of carbon emission by 2050, the UK smart home market is expected to see significant growth over the forecast period.
[New] Technologies and innovative industrial processes could slash the UK's business energy bills by £6bn between now and 2030, with a further £400 per home, per year, to be reaped in savings in the domestic space.
[New] About one-fifth of homes in Canada are at risk of overland flooding, while insurance payouts have surged to about $1 billion per year over the past six years.
[New] Smart electricity meters that monitor and reduce the amount of electricity a household uses will begin appearing in Irish homes before the end of the year, ESB has confirmed.
[New] Home Office allocates £35 million to police forces for violence reduction units - Violence reduction units will take a multi-agency approach, bringing together police, local government, health, community leaders and other key partners to tackle violent crime and its underlying causes.
For African migrants, Libya will remain a land of no return for many years and a source of worry for their families and countries in 2019 and beyond.
Grocery delivery from Walmart is available to more than 50% of U.S. households, and grocery pickup will be available at 3,100 stores by the end of this year, reaching about 80% of U.S. households.
With smart home devices making their way into US homes quicker than ever, smart light switches and plugs are perhaps the easiest to use and install.
In the UK, the Alzheimer's Society expects dementia sufferers to exceed a million by 2025, with an unknown quantity of carers and family members affected.
A new scheme under the Homes for Londoners plan 2016-21 by Mayor Sadiq Khan, London living rent, is expected to have around two thirds of the median market rent.
A new UK scheme will combine the Vulnerable Person's Resettlement Scheme, Vulnerable Children's Resettlement Scheme and Gateway Protection plan with the aim of resettling 5000 refugees in 2020/2021.
To thrive in the years ahead and avoid a Japan-like decline, China should reinvent its cities as places both of economic opportunity and flourishing families.
Africa and Asia are currently home to more than twice the total population of the remaining four regions combined: In eighty years time, the two continents are predicted to be consist of over 80% of the world's population.
Whether to support fibre-to-the-home broadband, connections to 5G mobile stations, or improved business connectivity, more fibre networks will be needed to support the next generation of services in the UK.
The worldwide market for Household Vacuum Cleaning Robots is expected to grow at a CAGR of roughly 14.2% over the next five years, will reach US$580 million in 2024, from US$260 million in 2019,.
Australia's 180 MW Berrybank Wind Farm is now under construction in Victoria: The 43-turbine farm is expected to come online next year, and it should power around 138,000 homes once operational.
Highly acute sensors could become inexpensive enough to follow the path that smoke detectors took to the ceilings of every home and business within a decade or two.
The African continent is home to approximately 1.3 billion people and by the end of the century that number is expected to jump to 4.2bn.
In all of the indicative scenarios set out in the Clean Growth Strategy, heat networks are projected to meet 17% of heat demand in homes and up to 24% of heat demand in industrial and public-sector buildings by 2050, whereas they currently only supply around 1% of buildings heat demand.

Last updated: 13 July 2019