One of the companies that is solving this very problem is Xiaomi. Their method is quite crude - that is, they make everything themselves. But the end result is that everything they make - from an air purifier to a TV - is connected and operated via a similar &#x2F; familiar OS called MIUI.<p>They give away their phones for very cheap, because the phone is the Trojan horse - it is the remote control for all the other devices it makes.<p>Xiaomi is the largest and fastest growing IoT company on the planet, and worth keeping an eye out for.