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Here’s an open source smart home energy management solution

February 13, 2023 by Kevin C. Tofel 3 Comments

On a recent Internet of Things Podcast episode, we took a call from our podcast hotline about smart home energy management. Thomas is looking for a whole home energy management solution but he has a specific requirement. He wants it to be open … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Featured, How-To Tagged With: energy management, energy monitoring, Home Assistant, open source, smart home, smart outlets, smart plugs

Home Assistant’s newest release is big and awesome

April 13, 2022 by Kevin C. Tofel 5 Comments

Although I've gone all-in on HomeKit for personal use, there are still other great smart home options out there. And one of them is Home Assistant, which often gets lost in the connected platform shuffle. If you're not familiar with it, Home … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Featured, How-To Tagged With: connected devices, Home Assistant, open source, raspberry pi, smart home, smart lights, smart locks

Project Soli: a fading Ripple in the IoT waters?

January 12, 2022 by Kevin C. Tofel 2 Comments

Project Soli and Pixel 4

Google’s Project Soli, the use of small radar sensors in devices, officially launched in 2015. And in six years, we’ve seen few products that actually use it. Now, Google has helped create an open-source API effort for the Soli technology called … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Analysis, Featured Tagged With: APIs, gestures, google, Motion Sense, Nest Hub, open source, Pixel 4, Project Soli, Radar

Meta’s flexible ReSkin sensor has untapped potential in the smart home

November 15, 2021 by Kevin C. Tofel 2 Comments

While looking for new research on robotics last week, I caught the news from Facebook — I mean, Meta — about its new flexible sensor. It unveiled what it calls ReSkin technology for tactile sensing, created in conjunction with Carnegie Mellon … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Analysis, Featured, News Tagged With: Carnegie Melon, iot, MIT, open source, pressure sensors, robots, sensors, smart home, tactile sensors

What the heck is the Home Assistant Amber and do you need it?

September 27, 2021 by Kevin C. Tofel Leave a Comment

On our most recent IoT Podcast, Todd called in to our voicemail hotline with a question about a brand new smart home device. He heard about the recently announced Home Assistant Amber, wondering if we were familiar with it and if we'll be reviewing … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Home Assistant, Home Assistant Amber, Home Assistant Blue, hubs, open source, raspberry pi, smart home

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