Seventy brand guides to the connected home — from smart locks and thermostats to mesh Wi-Fi, shades and pet tech — and the companies that really own them.
In the smart home, the name on the box often hides a much larger owner. These guides trace who owns each brand today, where it is built, and what happens to devices when a company changes course.
Big owners behind familiar names
Yale’s smart locks belong to ASSA ABLOY abroad but to Fortune Brands in North America; Level is now an ASSA ABLOY brand; eero is a wholly owned Amazon company, as is Blink; Netatmo belongs to France’s Legrand; Drayton’s smart heating runs on Schneider Electric’s Wiser system; and Honeywell Home thermostats are operated by Resideo under licence to the Honeywell name, not made by Honeywell itself.
Ecosystems and standards
Several brands are partners in someone else’s ecosystem rather than subsidiaries: Aqara, Yeelight and Qingping are Xiaomi-invested ecosystem companies, not Xiaomi products. Our guides also note where brands support Matter and Thread, the shared smart-home standards: Aqara’s locks work with Matter, Hunter Douglas PowerView runs on native Matter over Thread, and Eve MotionBlinds were among the first shades on Thread.
When a product goes away
Connected devices depend on their makers. Our guides record cases where that mattered: AeroGarden was wound down and sold on clearance, Vilo’s budget mesh appears to have wound down, and Petlibro suffered a cloud outage in 2026 that showed the risk of cloud-dependent hardware.
How to use these guides
Each guide covers who owns the name today, where the products are made — by the maker’s own account and, where it differs, by other sources — and the brand’s visual identity. A company’s description of itself is attributed to the company, and where a business has closed we say so plainly. The table at the end gathers the essentials.
Smart locks
Smart locks and deadbolts, and the lock giants behind them.
- Yale — The 150-year-old pin-tumbler lock name whose smart locks are ASSA ABLOY’s abroad but Fortune Brands’ in North America.
- August — The Yves Béhar–designed retrofit smart lock that fits over your existing deadbolt, now a Fortune Brands brand in North America.
- Level — The ex-Apple team’s “invisible” smart lock that hides its electronics inside the deadbolt, now owned by ASSA ABLOY.
- Schlage — The 1920 San Francisco lock maker, now an Allegion brand, that still leans on US manufacturing.
- Aqara — The Lumi-made, Xiaomi-invested smart-home brand whose locks work across Apple, Google, Alexa and Matter.
- Ultraloq — U-tec’s Silicon Valley–founded, China-made smart lock that put fingerprint entry at an accessible price.
- SwitchBot — The Shenzhen brand that started with a robot that presses switches and grew into a newly listed smart-home company.
Smart thermostats
Smart heating controls and their owners.
- Tado — The independent, Munich-founded smart-heating maker, Frankfurt-listed after a failed SPAC and financially strained.
- Mysa — The independent Newfoundland maker whose smart thermostats control the 240V electric and baseboard heating rivals ignore.
- Sensi — The value smart-thermostat brand now under Blackstone-backed Copeland (ex-Emerson), built on HVAC-pro credibility.
- Honeywell Home — The smart-thermostat brand operated by Resideo under license to the Honeywell name, not made by Honeywell itself.
- Netatmo — The French, Legrand-owned smart-home maker whose Philippe-Starck-designed thermostat leads on HomeKit and aesthetics.
- Hive — Centrica’s (British Gas) smart-home brand, now retreating from broad hardware toward heating and energy services.
- Drayton — The heritage UK heating-controls brand owned by Schneider Electric, whose smart heating runs on Schneider’s Wiser system.
Smart lighting
App-controlled lighting, from premium bulbs to value strips.
- Govee — The Shenzhen brand whose RGBIC strips and screen-sync lights made addressable ambience an ordinary, affordable buy.
- LIFX — The Australian-born, now Feit-Electric-owned premium colour bulb that runs on Wi-Fi with no bridge.
- WiZ — Signify’s affordable, no-bridge Wi-Fi lighting line that sits beside premium Philips Hue under the same owner.
- Twinkly — The Milan company whose app maps each LED so animations play across the physical layout of decorative lights.
- Yeelight — The independent Qingdao lighting firm in Xiaomi’s ecosystem, an invested partner rather than a Xiaomi subsidiary.
- Sengled — The Shanghai value-bulb brand, known for cheap multipacks and a CES-showcased radar bulb that senses the room.
- Cololight — LifeSmart’s brand of low-cost modular LED panels, an independent player in a Nanoleaf-sensitive category.
Security cameras
Home security camera brands and their subscription models.
- Arlo — The San Jose, NYSE-listed camera brand spun out of Netgear, premium wireless built around cloud and subscription.
- Blink — Amazon’s budget battery-camera brand, built on long battery life and local storage via the Sync Module.
- Eufy — Anker’s smart-home brand built on a local-storage, no-monthly-fee pitch that a 2022 episode tested, and that it moved to remedy.
- Reolink — The Shenzhen brand built on PoE cameras, NVRs and local recording with no mandatory subscription.
- Tapo — TP-Link’s high-volume budget camera line, sold with local microSD and tied to TP-Link’s wider smart-home ecosystem.
- Lorex — The Canadian DIY surveillance brand whose ownership ran FLIR to Dahua to Taiwan’s Skywatch, its current owner.
- Swann — The Australian-origin DIY security brand, now under a US-headquartered parent with substantial China operations.
Mesh Wi-Fi
Home mesh Wi-Fi systems and the networking companies behind them.
- eero — The design-forward whole-home mesh Wi-Fi brand, named after an architect and now a wholly owned Amazon company.
- Netgear Orbi — The premium mesh line with a dedicated wireless backhaul, from public US networking company NETGEAR.
- TP-Link Deco — The mass-market value mesh from a router giant now split into US and China entities and under US national-security scrutiny.
- Ubiquiti AmpliFi — The design-forward consumer mesh from Ubiquiti, still sold but dormant as UniFi takes the focus.
- Vilo — The ultra-affordable US budget mesh Wi-Fi brand that shipped a famous $20 system and now appears wound down.
- Asus ZenWiFi — The premium whole-home mesh from Taiwanese public company ASUSTeK, built on its AiMesh technology.
- Linksys Velop — The mesh line from a heritage router brand that passed through Cisco, Belkin and Foxconn and is now wholly owned by US company Fortinet.
Smart shades
Motorised and retrofit window shades.
- Somfy — The French, family-controlled motorization giant whose tubular motors and TaHoma ecosystem power motorised shades across the industry.
- Hunter Douglas PowerView — The smart-motorization platform of the window-covering giant, now controlled by 3G Capital and running on native Matter over Thread.
- Lutron Serena — The motorised-shade line from the private, family-owned US company whose founder invented the solid-state dimmer, run on proprietary Clear Connect RF.
- Eve MotionBlinds — A Coulisse × Eve Systems shade-motor collaboration, among the first on Thread and later Matter-certified, from a privacy-first brand now owned by ABB.
- SOMA Smart Shades — The Estonian retrofit shade motor that clips onto your existing blinds, with a rechargeable battery and an optional solar panel.
- RYSE SmartShade — The Canadian retrofit shade driver (formerly AXIS) that motorises existing beaded-chain shades, funded largely by its own customers.
- Yoolax — The China-made, custom made-to-measure motorised-shade brand that brought Matter-over-Thread shades to the mass Amazon channel.
Smart sprinklers
Smart irrigation controllers.
- Rachio — The US consumer smart-sprinkler startup whose weather-based watering works with no mandatory subscription.
- Rain Bird — The private US irrigation giant founded in 1933, whose smart Wi-Fi controllers sit atop a vast professional range.
- Hunter — The family-led US professional-irrigation giant whose Hydrawise platform brings weather-based smart control to installers.
- Orbit — The Utah irrigation brand, now Husqvarna-owned, whose B-hyve smart timers made cheap smart watering a big-box buy.
- Gardena — The German, Husqvarna-owned garden brand whose smart system connects irrigation, sensors and timers across the yard.
- Netro — The small value smart-sprinkler startup whose Sprite controller, Pixie timer and Whisperer sensor run weather-based watering.
- RainMachine — The local-first smart sprinkler that runs without the cloud, from a company whose current status we could not confirm.
Air-quality monitors
Indoor and outdoor air-quality monitors.
- Airthings — The Oslo, publicly listed air-quality brand that leads on radon and broad indoor-air monitoring.
- Awair — The San Francisco air-monitor brand whose Element and a simple air score anchor a growing business line.
- Aranet — The Latvian, publicly listed maker (SAF Tehnika) whose Aranet4 became the go-to CO2 ventilation monitor.
- Qingping — The Beijing, Xiaomi-invested ecosystem partner whose air monitors often support both Mi Home and Apple HomeKit.
- uHoo — The Hong Kong-based air-monitor brand marketed on a nine-sensor device, with a strong building-and-workplace business.
- Kaiterra — The China-founded air-monitor company, once the Laser Egg, now pivoted to enterprise Sensedge sensors and healthy-building data.
- PurpleAir — The US community sensor network whose low-cost PM2.5 monitors feed a public map, with an EPA correction for accuracy.
Indoor gardens
Smart countertop and hydroponic gardens.
- AeroGarden — The countertop-hydroponic category creator, a Scotts Miracle-Gro brand now wound down and sold on clearance.
- Click & Grow — The Estonian smart garden built on soil pods, design-led and IKEA-invested but independent.
- Rise Gardens — The US hydroponic garden built to look like furniture, a modular cabinet you grow greens in.
- Gardyn — The US vertical hydroponic tower with cameras and an in-app plant assistant, sold with a membership.
- Lettuce Grow — The US Farmstand vertical garden, co-founded by Jacob Pechenik and Zooey Deschanel, that ships live seedlings.
- Plantaform — The Canadian egg-shaped smart garden that grows plants in a fine mist, which the brand calls fogponics.
- Aspara — Growgreen’s Hong Kong smart hydroponic grower, app-monitored and sold on capsules, with broad US retail.
Pet tech
Smart feeders, cameras, trackers and doors for pets.
- Whisker — The Michigan maker of the premium Litter-Robot, designed and assembled in the USA and rebranded from AutoPets in 2021.
- Petlibro — The Chinese-owned, US-fronted value brand of smart feeders and fountains, and a 2026 cloud outage that showed the risk.
- Furbo — Tomofun’s treat-tossing pet camera from Taiwan, whose paid Furbo Nanny plan gates its AI and safety alerts.
- Petcube — The San Francisco, Ukrainian-founded maker of value pet cameras with an Online Vet in the app.
- Tractive — The Austrian GPS pet-tracker brand, now owned by Italy’s Bending Spoons, whose trackers need a paid plan to work.
- Fi — The New York smart-collar maker (Barking Labs) whose Fi Ultra added satellite tracking, with GPS behind a required plan.
- Sure Petcare — The Cambridge maker of microchip pet doors and feeders, now a brand of US Merck & Co (MSD Animal Health).
At a glance: who owns the name and where it is made
Taken from each guide’s fact panel, as of October 2026. Ownership and production change; follow the link for sources and detail.
| Brand | Origin | Owner | Where made |
|---|---|---|---|
| AeroGarden | USA (Boulder CO) | Scotts Miracle-Gro | See guide |
| Airthings | Norway (Oslo) | See guide | See guide |
| Aqara | See guide | See guide | See guide |
| Aranet | See guide | See guide | See guide |
| Arlo | USA (San Jose) | See guide | See guide |
| Aspara | See guide | See guide | See guide |
| Asus ZenWiFi | Taiwan (Taipei 1989) | ASUSTeK | See guide |
| August | See guide | See guide | See guide |
| Awair | USA (San Francisco) | See guide | See guide |
| Blink | USA | Amazon | See guide |
| Click & Grow | Estonia (Tallinn) | See guide | See guide |
| Cololight | See guide | LifeSmart | See guide |
| Drayton | See guide | Schneider | See guide |
| eero | USA (SF Bay Area) | Amazon | Undisclosed |
| Eufy | See guide | See guide | See guide |
| Eve MotionBlinds | NL / Germany (Coulisse × Eve) | ABB (Eve only) | See guide |
| Fi | See guide | Barking Labs | See guide |
| Furbo | See guide | See guide | See guide |
| Gardena | Germany (Ulm) | Husqvarna | See guide |
| Gardyn | USA | See guide | See guide |
| Govee | China (Shenzhen) | See guide | See guide |
| Hive | See guide | Centrica | See guide |
| Honeywell Home | See guide | See guide | See guide |
| Hunter | USA (San Marcos) | Family | See guide |
| Hunter Douglas PowerView | Neth. / US (Roots 1919) | 3G Capital | See guide |
| Kaiterra | China (2014 as Origins) | See guide | See guide |
| Lettuce Grow | USA (Austin TX) | See guide | See guide |
| Level | See guide | See guide | See guide |
| LIFX | Australia (Melbourne) | Feit Electric | See guide |
| Linksys Velop | USA (Irvine 1988) | Fortinet | See guide |
| Lorex | Canada (Markham) | See guide | See guide |
| Lutron Serena | USA (Coopersburg PA) | Spira family | See guide |
| Mysa | See guide | See guide | Canada |
| Netatmo | See guide | Legrand | France |
| Netgear Orbi | USA (San Jose) | NETGEAR | SE Asia |
| Netro | USA (unconf.) (Silicon Valley?) | Unverified | See guide |
| Orbit | USA (Salt Lake City) | Husqvarna | See guide |
| Petcube | USA (San Francisco) | Private | See guide |
| Petlibro | See guide | Shenzhen Libro | See guide |
| Plantaform | Canada | See guide | See guide |
| PurpleAir | USA (Utah) | See guide | See guide |
| Qingping | China (Beijing) | See guide | See guide |
| Rachio | USA (Denver) | See guide | See guide |
| Rain Bird | USA (Azusa CA) | Private | See guide |
| RainMachine | See guide | Uncertain | See guide |
| Reolink | China (Shenzhen) | See guide | See guide |
| Rise Gardens | USA | Independent | See guide |
| RYSE SmartShade | Canada (Toronto) | RYSE Inc. | See guide |
| Schlage | See guide | See guide | See guide |
| Sengled | China (Shanghai) | See guide | See guide |
| Sensi | See guide | Copeland | See guide |
| SOMA Smart Shades | Estonia (Tartu) | Wazombi Labs | See guide |
| Somfy | France (Cluses 1969) | Despature family | FR / IT / Tunisia |
| Sure Petcare | UK (Cambridge) | Merck & Co | See guide |
| Swann | Australia (Melbourne) | Infinova | See guide |
| SwitchBot | See guide | See guide | See guide |
| Tado | See guide | See guide | Germany |
| Tapo | See guide | See guide | See guide |
| TP-Link Deco | China (Shenzhen 1996) | TP-Link | See guide |
| Tractive | Austria (Pasching) | Bending Spoons | See guide |
| Twinkly | Italy (Milan) | Twinkly S.r.l. | See guide |
| Ubiquiti AmpliFi | USA (NYC) | Ubiquiti | See guide |
| uHoo | Hong Kong | See guide | See guide |
| Ultraloq | See guide | See guide | See guide |
| Vilo | USA (Bellevue WA) | Kivo Technology | See guide |
| Whisker | USA (Michigan) | Pondera (PE) | See guide |
| WiZ | Hong Kong | Signify | See guide |
| Yale | See guide | See guide | See guide |
| Yeelight | China (Qingdao) | See guide | See guide |
| Yoolax | China (Ships from CN) | Undisclosed | See guide |
Frequently asked questions
Who makes Honeywell Home thermostats?
Resideo, under licence to the Honeywell name, according to our guide — not Honeywell itself.
Is Aqara owned by Xiaomi?
No. Our guide describes Aqara as a Lumi-made brand that Xiaomi has invested in, part of its ecosystem rather than a Xiaomi product.
Part of our Home & Kitchen brand guidelines. See also all collections.