This week, Silicon Labs held its annual Works With event, covering all aspects of the IoT. While many of the sessions were aimed at engineers trying to learn specific skills for product development, the event held a few panels with a larger focus … [Read More...]
Quext uses LoRa radios to connect smart apartments
With Smart Rent going public last month, the acquisition last year of Stratis by RealPages, and an increased focus on implementing smart home features across a portfolio of rental units, multifamily IoT is having a moment. That is why I was intrigued … [Read More...]
What local alternatives are there to cloud-based Nest Cams?
On our most recent IoT Podcast episode, Paul called in with a question about his smart home. He currently uses indoor Nest Cams pointing outside, along with Ubiquiti UniFi routers and they work fine, as expected. However, he's thinking about … [Read More...]
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IoT news of the week for Sept. 17, 2021
Home Assistant tries with a new hub: The campaign for Home Assistant Amber is now live. For $149, customers can buy a Raspberry Pi computer that is pre-loaded with Home Assistant's software and … [Read More...]
Podcast: Wyze comes back from the edge
I need to warn y'all in advance that we don't discuss Apple news at all this week because nothing really jumped out at us for the IoT. But we did have a lot of other big news starting with Wyze … [Read More...]
First flexible CPUs, now flexible RAM: Could this jumpstart truly smart clothing?
Innovation in flexible computing components is arriving in wave after wave of late. In June, a report detailed a 32-bit ARM microprocessor that could bend, and this month, we learned that Stanford … [Read More...]
Whole-home audio and smart lighting: DIY or go pro?
On our most recent IoT Podcast episode, Dave called in to our voicemail hotline looking for advice. His brother-in-law has a Google TV and Nest Audio speakers but wants to invest in whole-home audio … [Read More...]
Why TinyML looks like a fit for the developing world
Running small machine learning models on embedded devices has become a rich topic of research and investment, both at large tech companies and in academia. It's not really mainstream yet, but it's … [Read More...]