This morning I awoke to pictures of flooding in the Northeast, tales from relatives about power outages in the South, and worries about wildfire smoke in my neck of the woods. It's clear that we can't stop climate change, and in all honesty, there's … [Read more...]
Podcast: Ring wins big with Lennar
This week's show kicks off with news from Lennar about its new smart home offering with Ring, and a discussion on what it means that Ring now has more than 2,000 police and fire departments as partners. After that, we discuss what we learned from the … [Read more...]
Who’s in charge of the smart house? Yes, the actual house.
After eight years of torturing my family with smart bulbs, sensors, connected kitchen appliances, and an assortment of software and devices that tended to mostly work, but would fail only at 2 a.m. in a show of sparks or lights or noise, I have … [Read more...]
Avoiding the smart device Ponzi scheme
When it comes to connected devices, cloud costs can be a kick in the pants. Surprise AWS bills from inexpert architecture, a sudden rise in customers storing video, or an inability to keep selling more hardware as the usage of a platform grows can … [Read more...]
Are we finally ready for smarter HVAC vents?
A few years back, I covered a trifecta of startups that were building connected air vents. Ecovent, Keen.io, and Flair were putting motors and sensors onto air vents so the vents could open or close based on the ambient temperature in individual … [Read more...]
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