We start this week's show with a $200 million funding for Wiliot, a company I profiled back in 2017 as one of the vanguards of low-power sensing. Then we tackle a creative idea that could see consumers create safe words for their smart homes to … [Read more...]
What Matter means for digital assistants and the smart home
I used to say that the smart home was made up of devices and a hub. Now, it's probably fair to say that a smart home is made up of connected devices and a digital assistant. Most people want a full-blown digital assistant like Alexa, Siri, or Google, … [Read more...]
Amazon’s plans for Matter include current Echo devices
At long last Amazon has shared its plans for implementing the Matter smart home interoperability protocol. The retailer plans to support Matter on most of its Echo product line, including the Echo Shows, Echo Dots, Echo Studios, Echo Flexes, and … [Read more...]
Podcast: Radar is coming to the smart home
Welcome to another show! We're spending the first few minutes of the show diving into the rise of RF sensing in the IoT, covering the news of Amazon applying for an FCC waiver to use radar for sleep tracking, the FCC creating a notice of proposed … [Read more...]
Even the FCC agrees: 60 GHz radar is big for the Internet of Things
Last month, Amazon was quietly granted a waiver by the FCC to use 60 GHz frequencies in devices to provide radar-like features in fixed devices. This follows a similar waiver for Google’s Project Soli in 2018 as well as several other approvals for … [Read more...]
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