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How to track and communicate with your child who doesn’t have a traditional phone

January 4, 2021 by Kevin C. Tofel 2 Comments

On our most recent IoT Podcast episode, Pete called in with a great question to our voicemail hotline. Pete's family uses Google Fi on Android devices. He has a child that he doesn't feel is quite old enough to have a phone yet. However, Pete would … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Featured, How-To Tagged With: geofencing, Google Fi, GPS, kids, location, parents, Relay, Republic Wireless, smartwatch

How to use your phone’s GPS location to change a Nest thermostat between Home and Away mode

December 7, 2020 by Kevin C. Tofel Leave a Comment

2020 Nest Thermostat

On our most recent IoT Podcast episode, Dean called in to our podcast hotline with a question about having his Nest thermostat automatically turn on when he gets near his home. He used to use IFTTT for this, but it no longer works. He’s wondering how … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Featured, How-To Tagged With: Android, GPS, iOS, location, nest, smart home, smart thermostat

Inlo aims to build a presence platform for the smart home

June 8, 2020 by Stacey Higginbotham Leave a Comment

When it comes to the smart home, we're still missing vital context about the location and identity of people in a room. A smart home system may recognize that people are at home thanks to a presence sensor on a Nest thermostat, or by tracking … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Featured, Startups Tagged With: Apple, bluetooth, Inlo, location, Tile

IoT news of the week for March 22, 2019

March 22, 2019 by Stacey Higginbotham Leave a Comment

Graphic showing Internet of Things news

Facial recognition needs some form of control: One of my biggest fears with the collection and analysis of data enabled by the internet of things is that it will be used in ways that are harmful to the consumer but at the same time are totally opaque … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Featured, News Tagged With: Amazon AWS, ARM, Boeing, botnets, edge computing, facial recognition, Falkonry, google, IFTTT, location, Mirai, nxp, regulation, smart tvs, Uber

Bluetooth 5.1: The missing link for presence and context in the smart home?

January 30, 2019 by Kevin C. Tofel 1 Comment

There was big news out of the Bluetooth Special Interest Group (SIG) this week, with details on direction finding functionality available in Bluetooth 5.1. Much of the following discussion around the web focused on the use case of making it easier to … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Analysis, Featured Tagged With: bluetooth, Bluetooth SIG, context, location, microlocation, smart home

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