SmartRent goes public via a SPAC: Property tech is hot hot hot in the public markets as SmartRent, a company that provides software and hardware to building owners to make their apartments smart, goes public via a special purpose acquisition company, … [Read more...]
Podcast: Philips Hue has high hopes for Project CHIP
This week's show kicks off with the Bluetooth SIG's effort to bring Bluetooth-based contact tracing to individuals who might not have phones, and then segues into what's behind the Z-Wave Alliance's organizational shakeup. After that, we pause to … [Read more...]
Podcast: Bluetooth gets better and more smart lights
The Bluetooth Special Interest Group has released new standards that improve location tracking, so we talk about Kevin’s hopes for that and save the bigger details for our guest segment. We’ve got two new smart lighting products. The first is from … [Read more...]
Bluetooth 5.1: The missing link for presence and context in the smart home?
There was big news out of the Bluetooth Special Interest Group (SIG) this week, with details on direction finding functionality available in Bluetooth 5.1. Much of the following discussion around the web focused on the use case of making it easier to … [Read more...]
Bluetooth mesh is here, and boy, is it complicated!
I can see why it took two years to develop a mesh networking topology for Bluetooth. Basically, the members of the Bluetooth Special Interest Group are shoehorning the low power personal area network into an entirely new use case. The SIG and its … [Read more...]