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IoT news of the week for April 8, 2022

April 8, 2022 by Stacey Higginbotham Leave a Comment

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The latest on the Sigfox sale: The French court met with bidders for Sigfox's business and assets on April 5, and apparently only four credible bidders turned up. They were Singapore-based UnaBiz, Actility, a French LoRaWAN provider; OTEIS France, … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Featured, News Tagged With: actility, adt, Amazon, Ford, irobot, LoRaWAN, LORIOT, North, Sigfox

Podcast: Meet a robot that weeds your garden

April 7, 2022 by Stacey Higginbotham Leave a Comment

This week's podcast starts with an update on the state of Bluetooth adoption courtesy of the Bluetooth SIG. We discuss adoption of Bluetooth in the smart home, adoption of Bluetooth mesh and why Kevin prefers NFC to Bluetooth for secure keys. From … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Featured, Podcast Tagged With: Apple, Bluetooth SIG, Congress, Eufy, Helen Greiner, homekit, irobot, Nowi, RakWireless, Save our Standards, Schlage, Tertill, Wiliot, Wyze

Researchers find potentially vulnerable smart home devices

March 8, 2022 by Stacey Higginbotham Leave a Comment

Smart home devices from major manufacturers including Amazon and Samsung appear to be using old, vulnerable software to handle the encryption of data from their devices, according to research published earlier this week. The findings were derived … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Analysis, Featured Tagged With: Amazon, Arlo, google, irobot, samsung, Sony, TPLink

What about creating two-factor authentication for intent?

August 31, 2020 by Stacey Higginbotham 1 Comment

For a home to be truly smart, it should anticipate our needs. It's not enough to tell Alexa to turn on the lights; we want to walk into a room and have our house turn on the lights for us. And those lights should be dim if it's the middle of the … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Analysis, Featured Tagged With: irobot, Level, roomba

Rebranding won’t save the smart home, trust will

January 13, 2020 by Stacey Higginbotham 2 Comments

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...]

Filed Under: Analysis, Featured Tagged With: AARP, Amazon, Apple CHIP, CES 2020, google, irobot, smarthome, Stratis IoT

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