A lot happened in the Internet of Things world over the past week, and Internet of Things Podcast hosts Stacey Higginbotham and Kevin Tofel bring you up to speed in this week’s Internet of Things Podcast. Is popping RFID tags into employees that bad? How should you think about Roomba being able to sell data from your home? Also, funding news for August, the death of a smart home startup and the acquisition of Arraynet by Prodea, a company trying to build smarts for service providers and enterprises. Stacey reviews the Amazon Dash Wand , Elon Musk’s boring elevator, an ARM paper and a discussion of the new Industrial Internet Consortium’s new dictionary .
Then, Stacey interviews Alex Khorram, GM of MachineQ at Comcast about LoRA networks: what they are good for, how they might be built and what providers are doing with the technology.
Stacey, I am very curious why you never mention Nexia AND your sponsors and guests from Schlage never mention Nexia. I had to add Nexia to my home system in order to control certain Z-wave devices AND to get full control of my Trane thermostats which use a proprietary digital commlink protocol to communicate (2-way communication) with the whole HVAC system. This digital HVAC control is NOT available with Nest or any of the other 3rd party smart thermostats. They all still use a +24v or zero ON/OFF unidirectional type control with the HVAC system which was invented about a hundred years ago!!! Why are NONE of the home automation/IOT experts talking about these HVAC digital control protocols and how to interface them with the cloud/net? The Schlage/Nexia/Trane/IngersolRand system is the ONLY one I know of that allows you to implement DIGITAL commlink control of your HVAC components AND communicate with the rest of the iOt. What do you and Kevin think about this??? Thanks, -Nick (ps. I would be happy to explain more about my knowledge of these systems which I gained while adding smart TSATS to the 9 HVAC systems in my 2 recent homes.)
Darn it! Forget to say I love the podcast!!! Thanks for all the great current info and making it fun to listen to on my endless commute.
I am not a huge fan of Nexia because of the freemium model, but my parents have a Trane system and weighed getting the hub. They ultimately decided against it. And I think HVAC is going to take a while and will be piecemeal at first, until we see the bigger providers get on board. Emerson has some interesting stuff here but it’s only available to installers.