Earlier this week, a Nest outage lasted for 17 hours. Nest cameras didn't capture any video footage during that time. This downtime was likely a minor inconvenience, in most cases, if it was noticed at all. But for others who experienced some type of … [Read more...]
Rebranding won’t save the smart home, trust will
We need to dump the phrase "smart home" and adopt something new. That was a big takeaway from my panel focused on the smart home in 2020 held this week at CES. Fellow panalist Felicite Moorman, CEO of Stratis IoT, suggested we should return to using … [Read more...]
The chickens are coming home to roost in the smart home
The smart home is dead. I'm not sure exactly when the time of death should have been called, but it happened at some point between Google trying to rebrand the smart home as "the helpful home" and the publication of this article, which expresses … [Read more...]