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Podcast: Google’s Nest exec isn’t into smart homes

July 25, 2019 by Stacey Higginbotham 3 Comments

The OmniFob can replace your car keys, your house keys and control your smart home.

This week’s show kicks off with Kevin and I discussing how Google’s head of IoT isn’t a believer in the smart home. Except he is. He just calls it something else, and we explain his rationale for doing so. We also explain why I am so excited about Microsoft’s new contracts for sharing data and why Tile just scored $45 million in funding. From there we wonder if Google’s machine learning-based approach to recognizing electricity use in appliances is cool, who would buy the OmniFob smart keychain, and why Wyze is building a scale. Then we move to news from Huawei, Abode going deeper with Google Assistant, Adobe’s voice study and LG adding HomeKit to new TVs. Kevin shares his impressions of the Firewalla device, and then we answer a listener question about bring smart bulbs outside and finding wireless switches that work. It must be summer, based on these outdoor inquiries.

Our guest this week is Yana Welinder, co-founder and CEO of Kraftful, a newly launched startup building apps for smart home devices. Kraftful is a company at YCombinator that is working with big brands to make the apps for connected devices work better. She explains what features mainstream consumers want, why big companies aren’t building these apps themselves and why her business isn’t a feature of a larger tech stack. It’s a good intro to a new company.

 

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Filed Under: Featured, Podcast Tagged With: Abode, Adobe, Afero, alexa, Dell Technologies, Firewalla, google, Keyport, Kraftful, Microsoft, Schlage, Tile, Wyze, Yana Welinder

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  1. Zarthan South says

    July 25, 2019 at 10:43 am

    The Hue dimmer can be directly paired with a Hue bulb. I think up to 10 bulbs. No hub required.

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  2. Konrad says

    July 26, 2019 at 1:51 am

    Hi, Stacy and Kevin! Is there a reason that a link to Google Cloud post on electricity recognition points to the Japanese version? 🙂

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    • Stacey Higginbotham says

      July 26, 2019 at 12:58 pm

      Er, variety is the spice of life? I believe because that’s where we found it.

      Reply

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