With 2019 underway, I think it's safe to say that 2018 was a big year for digital assistants and smart speakers in the home. And the coming years will likely continue that trend based on usage forecasts: eMarketer suggests a 15 percent increase in … [Read more...]
IoT news of the week for Oct. 26, 2018
LoRa just added a major new feature: The group managing the LoRa Low-Power Wide-Area Network standard just certified three new specifications designed to let LoRa networks handle over-the-air updates in a certified way. This is awesome because one of … [Read more...]
IoT news of the week for August 10, 2018
Anki’s inexpensive robot is crammed with smarts: Normally I wouldn’t expect much from a $250 robot, so I’m super impressed by the new Anki Vector. Aside from keeping the cute, emotion-based interactions from its prior robot, Cozmo, with Vector, Anki … [Read more...]
Launching soon: Samsung’s SmartThings Tracker, a consumer NB-IoT/Cat-M1 device for Verizon’s and AT&T
It hasn’t been officially announced yet, but Samsung is planning to release the SmartThings Tracker, a small device with Bluetooth LE, Wi-Fi, GPS and -- in a first for U.S. consumer products -- NB-IoT network support, although there's a small chance … [Read more...]
Did you know SmartThings’ CEO Alex Hawkinson left in March?
Alex Hawkinson, the chairman and former CEO of SmartThings, left the company in March. I somehow missed this, but apparently so did a lot of other people. SmartThings, which makes connected home software and hardware, was purchased in August 2014 by … [Read more...]
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