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Level raises $100M and acquires a smart apartment company

November 10, 2021 by Stacey Higginbotham Leave a Comment

New Level Lock

Level Home, the maker of a slick smart lock, has raised an additional $100 million in a Series C round of funding, as well as completing an all-stock deal to buy multi-family residential software company Dwelo. The two moves are part of a master plan … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Featured, News Tagged With: Dwelo, Ecobee, Generac, June, Latch, Level Home, PointCentral, RealPage, SmartRent, Weber, Wyze

Quext uses LoRa radios to connect smart apartments

September 19, 2021 by Stacey Higginbotham Leave a Comment

With SmartRent going public last month, the acquisition last year of Stratis by RealPages, and an increased focus on implementing smart home features across a portfolio of rental units, multifamily IoT is having a moment. That is why I was intrigued … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Featured, Startups Tagged With: PointCentral, Quext, Real Pages, SmartRent

How to handle the end of 3G networks for your IoT devices

August 10, 2020 by Stacey Higginbotham 1 Comment

AT&T will shut down its 3G network in February 2022, and Verizon plans to shut its 3G network down at the end of this year. This won't come as a surprise to the businesses that have built cellular 3G into their connected products, but it's still … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Analysis, Featured Tagged With: AT&T, CalAmp, PointCentral, Verizon

Smart apartments aren’t about your smart lighting demands

July 23, 2019 by Stacey Higginbotham 2 Comments

As a consumer, it's easy to view the launch of connected home devices and want the same functionality in my apartment. But for the owners of an apartment building, spending on connected tech is less easy to justify.  In the wake of a large funding … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Analysis, Featured Tagged With: alexa, google, PointCentral, SmartRent, STRATIS

Podcast: Mozilla’s IoT Gateway and LoRa Roaming

February 8, 2018 by Stacey Higginbotham Leave a Comment

There was a lot of smart home related news this week as Mozilla launched IoT gateway software, Apple’s HomePod reviews came out and Nest was folded into Google. Kevin and I discuss all of that, plus Netgear spinning out its Arlo home camera business, … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Featured, Podcast Tagged With: Amazon, Amazon Echo, Apple Watch, Arlo, Bruce Chatterley, enterprise, google, homekit, HomePod, LoRa, Mozilla, nest, Netgear, PointCentral, Renesas, Sean Miller, Senet, smart cities, smart homeTags Alexa, WeMo, z-wave

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