Who is best positioned to build a smart home assistant?
There has been a lot of talk recently about advancements in the smart home arena, especially about new ways to control smart home devices. I have heard Amazon’s Echo referred to as a smart home device,...
View Article?Hive launches on IFTTT and opens its doors to the smart home
One of the big problems with British Gas Hive’s smart theromostat has been its walled garden approach. Unlike Works with Nest, it’s very much isolated in the smart home. But that problem is starting to...
View ArticleTesting a home that gets to know your habits
When Benjamin Lee comes home to his apartment, the lights turn on as he moves from room to room. He could also program his entertainment system to spring to life when he’s ready to settle in for the...
View ArticleIHS: Smart home growth hindered by lack of awareness, fragmentation
While the advent of smart home solutions has created new revenue streams for residential security companies and subsequently increased the value that an alarm system provides to consumers, the...
View Article44% of Americans Looking for Move-in-Ready Homes Say Smart Home Technology...
Those Americans looking to move into a move-in ready home have made their voices heard: smart home technology is a big plus.A new survey conducted by Coldwell Banker Real Estate LLC and Parks...
View ArticleBest Firewall 2016: Cujo home firewall protects network, smart home
The device pictured at the top of this post might look like a cute little android straight out of a science fiction movie, but looks can be deceiving. The CUJO Smart Internet Security Firewall is all...
View ArticleOvercome the Smart Home Gender Gap
It only takes a quick Google search to see the promise of the smart home. The way in which we can now control functions in our homes and how devices control aspects of our lives for us is nothing short...
View Article?7 ways smart homes make life easier
Think of all the ways smart phones have made our lives easier. We can hail rides, navigate streets, share photos and so much more. Now get ready for the next step in smart tech: fully connected smart...
View ArticleIFTTT Moves To Become The Glue Of The Smart Home
For the past few years, there has been a number of efforts to tie together the fragmented smart home world. Big tech players like Alphabet -owned Nest, Apple AAPL +1.25%, Samsung and Amazon have all...
View Article4 Reasons to Invest in a Smart Home Now
Buying a home is a liability for most. And a smart home would be a bigger one. Probably being a first-time smart home buyer, you’ve resorted to other smart home owners’ recommendation, many of whom are...
View ArticleOptimizing energy production: Addressing rotor wakes at wind farms
Wind energy would be much more plentiful if wind turbines could be placed in one long row always facing a steady wind direction. In reality, multiple constraints (e.g. land, environmental, financial,...
View ArticleHome Automation: A Growth Area For The Security Industry?
It’s become a hot topic lately, but what are the real prospects for the smart home and home automation market? More specifically, what role can the security industry play in what is seen as a growth...
View ArticleSmart meters increasing consumer energy awareness, new report finds
The roll-out of smart energy meters is making consumers more likely to be aware of their energy consumption and take steps to reduce it, a new report has found.Smart Energy GB’s ‘Smart Energy Outlook’...
View ArticleLandisGyr Announces Wi-SUN Certification For Smart Grid Network Radio Technology
Landis+Gyr, a global leader in energy management solutions, has successfully completed Wi-SUN US Profile physical layer certification of the radio technology used in Gridstream® solutions and deployed...
View ArticleBest Buy Builds Connected Home Demo In Mall Of America
For the next three weeks Best Buy is calling Minnesota’s Mall of America home, or rather Tech Home.That’s the name given the multi-room, connected-home pop-up demo now holding court in the world’s...
View ArticleGrid-scale battery storage not yet ‘panacea’ for Australia renewables
A senior solar energy researcher from the University of Queensland has questioned the role of grid-scale battery storage as the “missing link” of Australia’s shift to renewables, and suggested that...
View ArticleLowe’s And Alexa Are Now A Thing
Lowe’s has welcomed Amazon into its Iris family of home-automation products with open arms.The No. 2 home improvement chain has joined the growing ranks of developers who have incorporated the...
View ArticleTime to ditch the “dumb” grid and embrace a smart energy future : Renew Economy
Australia’s National Energy Market is hamstrung by an out-dated, ‘dumb’ grid, and must be updated to face the realities of low carbon, low marginal cost energy generation. Greater inter-connectivity is...
View ArticleLogitech Pop Review: A smarter button for the IoT
It’s an awkward fact of life: the smart home, and the Internet of Things in general, is meant to make life more streamlined but can often just leave us poking at our phones more frequently. Want to...
View Article5 Top Wearables Companies to Watch
The market for wearable devices is absolutely on fire. Case in point, the global wearables market grew 67% during the first quarter of 2016, according to researcher IDC. Predictably, tech investors are...
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