Wyze adds home smarts on the cheap: After announcing a $20 million funding round and one million WyzeCams sold, Wyze is following up with its next low-cost product, the Wyze Sense. This is a $20 add-on package of products, available in May, that … [Read more...]
On-device speech recognition on smart speakers: Only half of the cloudless smart home equation
When Google announced its "end-to-end, all-neural, on-device speech recognizer" for the Gboard phone keyboard two weeks ago, I was initially excited. That's because speech recognition can now run locally on Gboard, even without a network … [Read more...]
Amazon just pulled an Apple on the smart home
Amazon just solved several challenges associated with the smart home. At its event Thursday in Seattle, the online retailer attacked several pain points associated with the smart home to create a vision for the user experience I associate with Apple. … [Read more...]
How Wyze makes such a crazy, good camera for cheap
This week I was at Google’s cloud event in San Francisco while Kevin swapped out his video doorbells. We discuss Google’s news related to edge computing and several pieces of doorbell news before talking about a few recent articles that show how far … [Read more...]
IoT news of the week for May 18, 2018
Google plays hardball with hardware partners: This story actually focuses on Sonos playing hardball with Google over patents, with Sonos making an implicit threat to sue Google over patent infringement, but it also notes that Google has tried to … [Read more...]