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...]
Rebranding won’t save the smart home, trust will
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...]