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Smart speakers must pivot to services

May 16, 2022 by Stacey Higginbotham 3 Comments

by Blake Kozak After less than a decade of existence, the smart speaker market is already mature. But unless smart speakers are released with services or features that bridge industries, they risk becoming the next digital photo frame. Since … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Analysis, Featured Tagged With: Amazon, Apple, google, netflix, Omdia

Podcast: Smart screws and massive IoT

May 12, 2022 by Stacey Higginbotham Leave a Comment

This week's show was recorded a few hours before the annual Google I/O event so we didn't discuss the new Pixel Watch, but we do discuss Google's thoughts on the Matter smart home standard from an article in The Verge, which Kevin also tied to a … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Featured, Podcast Tagged With: Amazon, augury, google, Imagimob, InfluxData, Inmarsat, LoRa Alliance, Matter, Seebo, SmartThings, sonos, vivint

We need laws and regulations on data use and privacy

May 9, 2022 by Stacey Higginbotham 2 Comments

If nothing else, the leaked Supreme Court draft opinion that would end the right to privacy allowing women to get abortions should serve as a scary wake-up call to companies that have vast stores of user data. Technology companies, including app … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Analysis, Featured Tagged With: AI, Amazon, CDC, google, John Deere, Placer, SafeGraph

Can you set up custom sound notifications with Alexa or other digital assistants?

May 7, 2022 by Kevin C. Tofel Leave a Comment

On our latest IoT Podcast episode, we take a question that Keith left on our IoT Voicemail hotline. He wants to set up custom sound notifications in his smart home because he sometimes has a difficult time hearing certain things. Keith wants to be … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Featured, How-To Tagged With: Amazon, amazon alexa, Apple, Apple iOS, google, Google Home, Google Nest, smart home, sound detection

Podcast: How to build the infrastructure for public tech

May 5, 2022 by Stacey Higginbotham 1 Comment

This week's show kicks off with research suggesting Amazon uses data from Alexa devices to advertise its own products, and that Amazon is selling some of the insights derived from Alexa requests to third parties. This is disturbing, but so is John … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Featured, Podcast Tagged With: alexa, Amazon, CDC, COVID, Digital Public, google, Impinj, InfluxData, John Deere, Leviton, Qualcomm, Schlage, Wyze

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