As we start to emerge from the pandemic — and as we seek to seriously address climate change — smarter buildings are a huge opportunity. Understanding the built environments of our offices, factories, hospitals, and schools will help us use energy … [Read more...]
Smart home news and thoughts from the first day of CES 2021
There's nothing like sitting at your desk starting at 5 am (if you're on the West Coast) and strapping in for 10 hours of live-streamed and pre-recorded content from the largest consumer technology show in the world. But on Monday that's what Kevin … [Read more...]
2020 was a year of reckoning for the IoT
The biggest IoT story of 2020 was how much the internet of things struggled. From VentureBeat's deep-dive into Sigfox's challenges to the Wall Street Journal's story on Cisco's decision to end its smart city product, it felt like the media was … [Read more...]
Project CHIP goes commercial
It's not the news we were looking for, but on Wednesday the Zigbee Alliance said that it had created a separate working group for the Project Connected Home over IP standard designed for commercial buildings. More than 50 companies have committed to … [Read more...]
Amber’s software-defined electrical currents could change the IoT
As a product reviewer for several publications, I've played around with my fair share of electrical devices — from installing switches to blowing out doorbell transformers. So when I first sat down with Thar Casey, the CEO of Amber, to learn about … [Read more...]