Comcast’s Platform Plans Revealed

On this week’s podcast I speak with Daniel Herscovici, the head of Comcast’s Xfinity Home program, and he has some big ambitions. He is in charge of the smart home platform that aims to take over a huge number of homes in the US. We talk about the purchase of iControl, why Comcast isn’t keen on Zigbee and why Comcast isn’t sweating standards.

Also, this week there were two big stories in the internet of things. The first is that Google Home has expanded the number of companies it works with, adding Rachio, Wink, August and more. The other story is that Congress has repealed rules that prevented ISPs from selling your personal data. This will open up consumers’ search history to ISPs and marketers, but Kevin and I discuss what it means for your smart home devices and data. We also discuss IKEA’s new smart home products, Kevin’s poor Z-wave lock experience and hacked commercial dishwashers.