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IoT news of the week for March 5, 2021

March 5, 2021 by Stacey Higginbotham Leave a Comment

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All about Eve's new weather station: Eve Systems this week introduced a new version of the Eve Weather Station, which costs $70 and is available March 25. What's special about this one? Thread compatibility, which brings hubless mesh connectivity and … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Featured, News Tagged With: Azure, Emerson, Eve, Fi, google, Hippo, homekit, Meross, Microsoft, Noonlight, Tuya

Thread 101: What you need to know about this smart home protocol in 2021

February 24, 2021 by Kevin C. Tofel 2 Comments

Can you believe the Thread standard as we know it has been around since 2014? It’s true: It was just six months after Google purchased it that Nest worked with ARM, Samsung, and a handful of other companies to propose the Thread protocol. … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Analysis, Featured Tagged With: Amazon, Apple, bluetooth, Eero, Eve, google, IP, nest, Project CHIP, samsung, smart home, Thread, Wi-Fi, zigbee, ZWave

Can you use Apple HomeKit’s adaptive lighting with Lutron switches?

January 16, 2021 by Kevin C. Tofel Leave a Comment

On our most recent IoT Podcast, Tom called in to our voicemail hotline with a HomeKit question. He currently has Lutron switches but was thinking about swapping out the standard bulbs those switches control with smart bulbs. Why? Because he's hoping … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Featured, How-To Tagged With: adaptive lighting, Apple, Eve, homekit, iOS, Lutron, Philips Hue

Podcast: Surveillance scares and a nutrition-label for IoT security

June 4, 2020 by Stacey Higginbotham Leave a Comment

This week's show kicks off with a discussion of what's happening in the U.S. with protests, police brutality, and the role connected tech can play in smart cities, including the role image recognition can and does play. We then tackle the IoT news … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: Amazon, Calix, carnegie mellon, CyLab, Edge Impulse, Eve, google, IFTTT, nest, SmartAC, Tovala, Wyze

Podcast: Smart cities, Ring, and the new surveillance state

January 30, 2020 by Stacey Higginbotham 2 Comments

On this week's show, privacy was a big theme beginning with our conversation about Ring's sharing of certain user data with third-party tracking sites, a plea from 40 organizations for the U.S. to stop using facial recognition technology, and a new … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Featured, Podcast Tagged With: Amazon, Eero, Eve, homekit, Honeywell, Informa, IoT World, KB Home, LoRaWAN, MachineQ, Ring, Verizon

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