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Podcast: Ring wins big with Lennar

February 4, 2021 by Stacey Higginbotham 1 Comment

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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...]

Filed Under: Featured, Podcast Tagged With: Abode, Apple, Flo, google, lennar, Level Lock, Resideo, Ring, Techmeme, Teracode, Tesla, Wink

Who’s in charge of the smart house? Yes, the actual house.

February 1, 2021 by Stacey Higginbotham 1 Comment

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...]

Filed Under: Analysis, Featured Tagged With: Amazon, Aquanta, Flo, Phyn, Resideo, SepticSitter, Span

Avoiding the smart device Ponzi scheme

November 2, 2020 by Stacey Higginbotham Leave a Comment

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...]

Filed Under: Analysis, Featured Tagged With: Resideo, Twilio, Wyze

Are we finally ready for smarter HVAC vents?

September 8, 2020 by Stacey Higginbotham 6 Comments

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...]

Filed Under: Featured, Startups Tagged With: 3M, Alea Labs, Ecovent, Flair, Keen, Resideo

Google’s ADT partnership turns the smart home into a service

August 3, 2020 by Stacey Higginbotham Leave a Comment

Google has taken an investment stake in alarm company ADT as well as signed a deal to tie ADT's installer network to the Google ecosystem of smart home products. The deal helps Google by bringing professional installers into the homes of consumers to … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Analysis, Featured Tagged With: adt, Amazon, Control4, google, nest, Resideo

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