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...]
Podcast: Meet a robot that weeds your garden
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...]
Researchers find potentially vulnerable smart home devices
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...]
What about creating two-factor authentication for intent?
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...]