This story was originally published on Friday, May 26 in my weekly newsletter. You can sign up for it here. I'm currently in Dallas for the Parks Associates Connections conference, where it's clear that the smart home industry is laser-focused on … [Read More...]
IoT news of the week for May 26, 2023
Sequans launches a 5G chip for cheaper industrial IoT devices: French cellular module maker Sequans has introduced the Taurus 5G NR, a 5G chip that's based on the modern Release 17 standard. The industrial IoT has been eager for release 17-capable … [Read More...]
Podcast: Trust, AI, and the economy drive IoT conversations
This week's show is live from Dallas as I attend the Parks Associates Connections smart home event, so I start out discussing some of the themes I've seen so far, including the growing importance of data privacy, local processing and generative AI. … [Read More...]
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Matter gotchas to know about eight months after the standard’s launch
We're nearly eight months into the Matter smart home protocol rollout and there are still some gotchas. I figured we'd have some initial pain points to deal with but I also thought that by now, some … [Read More...]
What’s coming next in the smart home?
Consumers are still not sold on the smart home, with their biggest concerns being privacy and fragmentation. That's according to Raza Shah, technology strategy and design leader at Jabil, a contract … [Read More...]
How Google Assistant with AI can deliver a truly smart home
After watching the Google I/O keynote last week, I noticed that Google Assistant, which has been a staple of Google's developer event for around eight years, was barely mentioned. Instead of Google … [Read More...]
IoT news of the week for May 19, 2023
Latch's deal for Jamie Siminoff’s startup is a $20M acqui-hire: This week, Latch acquired Honest Day's Work, a stealthy startup founded by Jamie Siminoff. Siminoff, who founded Ring and then sold it … [Read More...]
Matter 1.1 is here, but it’s not a big deal
The first update to the Matter smart home interoperability standard is here. When the Matter standard launched in October of last year, the Connectivity Standards Alliance (CSA) promised that it would … [Read More...]