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When Marie Kondo meets the smart home

January 22, 2019 by Stacey Higginbotham Leave a Comment

As many of y'all know, we're preparing for a move to Seattle in June. As part of the prep work, I'm getting rid of some of the clutter we've picked up in our 16 years of marriage and life in Texas. To inspire me, I've started watching "Tidying up … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Analysis, Featured Tagged With: alexa, Ecobee, google, Lutron, Marie Kondo, nest, netflix, Ring, WeMo

IoT news of the week for Nov. 9, 2018

November 9, 2018 by Stacey Higginbotham Leave a Comment

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Wemo adds HomeKit support to its dimmer switch: Rejoice, Apple fans! Those of you with the Wemo dimmer switch can now update the switch to add support for HomeKit. This is Wemo's first software-based implementation of HomeKit, which is a pretty big … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Featured, News Tagged With: AIP, Amazon, Dish, Ericsson, GE Current, homekit, NB-IoT, NIST, Schlage, Sense, Texas Instruments, WeMo, zigbee

How Twilio, Amazon, and AT&T may save the internet of things

October 22, 2018 by Stacey Higginbotham Leave a Comment

Six years into the frenzy that is the internet of things, a big business problem has emerged. Most connected devices require some kind of ongoing maintenance and fees associated with good security, software updates, and cloud costs. In cases where a … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Analysis, Featured Tagged With: Amazon, AT&T, Canary, Chamberlain, Twilio, WeMo

IoT news for the week of July 20, 2018

July 20, 2018 by Kevin C. Tofel 1 Comment

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Don’t count Low-Power Wide-Area Networks out just yet: ABI Research suggests that EU telecoms will face increased competition pressures from unlicensed spectrum providers for machine-to-machine (M2M) connectivity. That’s good news for LoRA Alliance … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Featured, News Tagged With: alexa, google, homekit, LoRa, LPWAN, Microsoft, NB-IoT, Sigfox, Siri, SWIM.AI, T-mobile, WeMo

We need more routers that function as smart home hubs

June 25, 2018 by Kevin C. Tofel 7 Comments

If I had a dollar for every time my wife asked me “what is that new….. tech box for?” I’d be a very rich man. “Tech box” is her generic for all of the hubs, gateways, bridges, access points, and -- more recently -- smart speakers I’ve installed at … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Analysis, Featured Tagged With: Almond, Fibaro, homekit, hub, Hubitat, iot gateway, mesh networking, router, samsung, Samsung SmartThings, smart home, TP-Link, WeMo, Wink

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