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Summary
Home Assistant has released the anonymized results of its first user survey, conducted in December 2024, making the dataset freely available to the public. The organization, which advocates for privacy, choice, and sustainability in smart homes, launched the survey to better understand its users and make the platform more inclusive and approachable. The published data has been stripped of identifiable information to protect respondent privacy. Home Assistant plans to use the findings to improve its work and hopes the dataset will enable further research and understanding of the smart home community.
Our why as an organization is clear: to fight for privacy, choice, and sustainability for smart homes, and for every person who lives in one. But who does live in them? In December 2024, we launched the first Home Assistant survey to find out. Our goal was simple: to make Home Assistant more inclusive and approachable by listening directly to the diverse community of people who use it. In the spirit of building in the open, today we’re thrilled to announce the anonymized results of that survey are now freely available. In this post, we’ll run you through what the survey covered, why and how we’re publishing this data, what the data is not (read: identifiable), how we’re using this information to improve what we do, and opportunities for further understanding and research.
Original article: https://www.openhomefoundation.org/blog/home-assistant-survey-dataset/ Source: Home Assistant Blog