How consumer burnout opens new opportunity for professional-grade solutions.
It started with excitement. Voice assistants, connected bulbs, remote apps—every year promised a “smarter” home. But after a decade of hype, many users feel something else instead: exhaustion.
Too many apps. Too many logins. Too many updates. The smart-home dream became a tangle of notifications and incompatibilities. Consumers wanted simplicity—but what they got was maintenance.
This is what we call smart-home fatigue—a growing disillusionment with devices that promised convenience but delivered complexity.
The Consumer Plateau
The first wave of smart-home adoption has peaked. DIY gadgets now compete on discounts, not innovation. Most users have reached their limit of “what’s worth connecting.” They’ve realized that the smartest products are the ones that just work—quietly, reliably, without attention.
That’s why the next stage of smart living won’t be driven by gadgets. It will be driven by infrastructure.
From Gadgets to Systems
Doors, windows, shading, ventilation—these are not accessories. They are the physical systems that define comfort, safety, and energy performance in a building. When these systems become intelligent, the result isn’t another app—it’s a smarter building itself.
This shift—from “smart-home products” to “smart building systems”—marks a deeper transformation: The intelligence moves from the device layer to the architectural layer.
It’s no longer about controlling things. It’s about coordinating them.
Why This Change Favors Manufacturers
For door and window manufacturers, this is the moment. As homeowners tire of fragmented gadgets, builders and architects are looking for reliable, unified, professional-grade smart systems—the kind that integrate natively, not retrofitted later.
In this new phase, control isn’t handed to consumer tech brands—it shifts back to the building product manufacturers. Those who can embed intelligence at the hardware level will shape the next decade of living environments.
The Opportunity for Professional-Grade Intelligence
Smart infrastructure demands different priorities:
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Durability over novelty. Products must endure weather, cycles, and installation variation.
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Interoperability by design. Systems should speak multiple protocols and remain adaptable.
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Service lifecycle management. Manufacturers—not consumers—ensure reliability through updates and calibration.
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Architectural readiness. Smart functions must align with how buildings are designed, not how phones operate.
This is where the true growth lies—not in “new gadgets,” but in new standards of intelligence.
How LEROND Leads This Transition
LEROND designs its solutions not for hobbyists, but for manufacturers and builders. Every lock, actuator, and controller is engineered as infrastructure-grade technology—ready to live for years inside architectural systems, not months on a retail shelf.
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Stability over showmanship. No blinking gimmicks—just performance built for long-term use.
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System-level intelligence. Modular architecture connects seamlessly across doors, windows, and façades.
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Cross-protocol compatibility. Support for Tuya, Zigbee, Matter, and wired protocols ensures freedom and future scalability.
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Partner-centric design. LEROND focuses on helping manufacturers own their smart ecosystem, not rent it.
LEROND’s vision of smart isn’t flashy. It’s quiet, durable, and built to last—exactly what the next era of smart living demands.
A Calm After the Storm
The first wave of smart homes was noisy—notifications, updates, and trends. The next wave will be quiet—reliable systems that make buildings think, not just devices blink.
Smart-home fatigue isn’t an end. It’s a reset—a chance to rebuild intelligence where it belongs: inside the structure, not on the surface.
And that’s where the manufacturers—you—take the lead.
