Gerard O'Driscoll

Gerard O'Driscoll is a smart home professional, educator, and author based in Cork, Ireland.

Over the past two decades, he has worked across telecoms, technology, and smart home installation, and is the founder of Smart Homes School, where he trains and certifies smart home installers and consultants through the NGSHI (Next Generation Smart Home Installer) Professional Program. More than 1,500 smart home professionals have completed the programme.

Gerard writes the Smart Homes School Weekly newsletter, covering smart home technology news and the business of smart home consulting for a professional audience across the UK, Ireland, and Europe.

His books cover everything from building your first smart home system to the future of AI in the connected home. He has been writing about smart home technology since before most people knew what a smart speaker was.

On the education front, Gerard holds electronics and information technology qualifications from the University of Limerick in Ireland.