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What devices can help your smart home use less energy?

March 1, 2021 by Kevin C. Tofel 1 Comment

On the most recent IoT Podcast, episode, Derrick called in with a question about saving energy in a smart home. He already has a smart thermostat and he doesn’t want to spend thousands of dollars. So what options are there? Quite a few, although the … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Featured, How-To Tagged With: Aquanta, energy savings, LED lighting, Sense, smart home

Who’s in charge of the smart house? Yes, the actual house.

February 1, 2021 by Stacey Higginbotham 1 Comment

After eight years of torturing my family with smart bulbs, sensors, connected kitchen appliances, and an assortment of software and devices that tended to mostly work, but would fail only at 2 a.m. in a show of sparks or lights or noise, I have … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Analysis, Featured Tagged With: Amazon, Aquanta, Flo, Phyn, Resideo, SepticSitter, Span

Podcast: LoRaWAN tries to co-opt Amazon Sidewalk

December 17, 2020 by Stacey Higginbotham Leave a Comment

This week's show kicks off with us discussing a fascinating interview with the head of the LoRa Alliance about its efforts to bring Amazon's Sidewalk network into compliance with the LoRaWan standard. We then discuss Apple's app privacy labels, a … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Featured, Podcast Tagged With: Amazon, Aquanta, Calix, Flic, google, LoRaWAN, Plum, plume, Sidewalk, Tive, World Economic Forum, Wyze

The EPA has created a program for the smart home

March 2, 2020 by Stacey Higginbotham 1 Comment

When it comes to the smart home, the focus lately has been on privacy and security. One big call to action has been the creation of an Energy Star-style standards label for smart home devices that makes clear they were created by following a set of … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Analysis, Featured Tagged With: Aquanta, EPA, google, nest

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