We need to dump the phrase "smart home" and adopt something new. That was a big takeaway from my panel focused on the smart home in 2020 held this week at CES. Fellow panalist Felicite Moorman, CEO of Stratis IoT, suggested we should return to using … [Read more...]
Internet of Things News of the Week, December 6 2019
Here's a roundup of IoT news that caught our attention this week. To receive this summary in your inbox every Friday, subscribe to the newsletter. A slideshow of IoT startups! I don't love slideshows, but I'll click through a good one, such as … [Read more...]
Podcast: The smart home at SXSW
This week's show features a lot of little news bits starting with a discussion about Charter testing a new smart home device management platform and another chat about facial recognition. We then return to the lessons that Boeing's 737 MAX saga have … [Read more...]
Podcast: How to design a better smart home
Smart home hubs are dying, DIY will become increasingly niche and smart companies are prepping for this. For example, Honeywell's smart home spin out Resideo went public this week with an eye to removing complexity from smart homes. Meanwhile, … [Read more...]
Data is not the new oil, but it could keep customers loyal
Every business is after that sweet, sweet data. After all, data is the new oil. Businesses need to connect their products so they can mine data from them and then store the data in so-called data lakes in the cloud. These are actual sentences that … [Read more...]