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IoT news of the week for August 11, 2023

August 11, 2023 by Stacey Higginbotham

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Here's a bit more on Philips Hue's potential as a home security play: On an earnings call the president of Signify, which owns the Philips Hue brand, said the company was working on a security camera for it. Now reports are saying that there are four … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Featured, News Tagged With: Control4, Matter, Microsoft, Philips Hue, SaaviHome, Signify, TP-Link, Tractican

Whole-home audio and smart lighting: DIY or go pro?

September 13, 2021 by Kevin C. Tofel

On our most recent IoT Podcast episode, Dave called in to our voicemail hotline looking for advice. His brother-in-law has a Google TV and Nest Audio speakers but wants to invest in whole-home audio and smart lighting. Dave wonders what we would … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: amazon alexa, Control4, google assistant, lighting, Lutron, Savant, smart home, smart switches, sonos

An FAQ on the Matter protocol

May 17, 2021 by Stacey Higginbotham

This week, Project Connected Home over IP became Matter, and with the new name came new information about how it will provide interoperability between certain classes of smart home devices. Now that the protocol is back in the spotlight, I'm getting … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Analysis, Featured Tagged With: bluetooth, Control4, CSA, Home Assistant, Matter, Savant, Silicon Labs, z-wave, zigbee

Google’s ADT partnership turns the smart home into a service

August 3, 2020 by Stacey Higginbotham

Google has taken an investment stake in alarm company ADT as well as signed a deal to tie ADT's installer network to the Google ecosystem of smart home products. The deal helps Google by bringing professional installers into the homes of consumers to … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Analysis, Featured Tagged With: adt, Amazon, Control4, google, nest, Resideo

The chickens are coming home to roost in the smart home

November 18, 2019 by Stacey Higginbotham

The smart home is dead. I'm not sure exactly when the time of death should have been called, but it happened at some point between Google trying to rebrand the smart home as "the helpful home" and the publication of this article, which expresses … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Analysis, Featured Tagged With: Allegion, Amazon, Control4, google, nest, smarthome

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