The buyers of smart home gear woke up on Monday to some pretty bad news. The first was an article detailing why How to Geek could no longer recommend the Wink hub and the second was an email from software-based smart home platform Stringify, that it … [Read more...]
Germany’s industrial IoT fair was heavy on the IT
Last week, the biggest players in the industrial internet of things gathered in Hannover, Germany for a massive trade show focused on industrial technology. Hannover Messe (which means "Hannover Fair") has morphed from a trade show focused on … [Read more...]
Is Mistral a next-gen mesh network Google Home Hub with ZigBee, or maybe even Thread?
Google appears to be developing a next-generation Home hub that will include mesh Wi-Fi, a ZigBee or thread-based radio and better audio quality according to the evidence I've found in Google's code base. The code I've unearthed refers to "Mistral", … [Read more...]
Notes from Helsinki: 5G in action, car tech, and smart ferries
This week, I'm in Helsinki, speaking at an event. I'll be telling a bunch of advertising executives how IoT will change their industry and after I'm done with the talk, I'll likely include some version of it here. Helsinki and Espoo (which is roughly … [Read more...]
On-device speech recognition on smart speakers: Only half of the cloudless smart home equation
When Google announced its "end-to-end, all-neural, on-device speech recognizer" for the Gboard phone keyboard two weeks ago, I was initially excited. That's because speech recognition can now run locally on Gboard, even without a network … [Read more...]
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