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Smart Homes A Look into Today's Trends and Opportunities APPLIANCES / TREND PAPER 9 TE Connectivity Leads with Quality Engineering Solutions TE Connectivity (TE) offers an extensive array of solutions to meet the needs and growing emergence of smart homes. We partner with nearly every major global appliance OEM to support the design and engineering of safer, more sustainable major home appliances. Our comprehensive portfolio of sensors, connectors, relays, and switch solutions are incorporated into smart home applications. This includes the development of thermostats that adapt to sleep patterns, lighting fixtures that reduce carbon emissions, security systems that respond to voice commands, and kitchen appliances that hasten meal preparation. Solutions Portfolio • Interconnect Solutions: Our expansive portfolio of products across a comprehensive range of industry applications, includes innovations in power, data, and signal connectors. • Sensor Solutions: As one of the largest sensor companies in the world, our innovative sensor solutions help customers transform concepts into smart, connected creations. • Relay Solutions: Our relays, contactors, and switches can be used nearly anywhere and in any design for access control systems, lighting, building systems, HVAC, and an array of safety-critical applications. • Switch Solutions: From miniature printed circuit board mounted DIP switches to tactile switches for use in household appliances, our comprehensive line of switches can be used in lighting, building systems, solar, HVAC, and an array of safety-critical applications. • Antenna Solutions: Our standard and custom antenna solutions, whether embedded or multi-element external antennas, offer endless possibilities to create wireless devices with several combinations of features in a variety of shapes or sizes. Our designs also accommodate numerous sets of frequency bands for operation on most networks on a global basis. • Passive Component Solutions: From standard miniature SMD components to custom products, our passive components include resistors, capacitors, chokes, and inductors for use across many applications; in addition, many of our power resistors can be customized to meet specific needs.