This week’s news was somewhat grim for the smart home with Lowe’s shutting down its Iris smart home hub program and a number of acquisitions in the space. Those include LIFX, Neeo, and WigWag. We are pumped about the rise in mainstream attention for … [Read more...]
August’s sale is just one in consumer IoT’s year of reckoning
This week Swedish lock company Assa Abloy said it would buy August, the maker connected locks. I also found out that Immedia, the company that makes the Blink cameras and alarm system is also on the market. Blink didn't respond to my inquiry about it … [Read more...]
WigWag moves from consumer to enterprise IoT
Back in 2013 an Austin, Texas company called WigWag launched a Kickstarter campaign for a hub and sensor that offered a fairly complex recipe-setting service for the time. I called it a "heap of fun" but said that the programming might be daunting … [Read more...]