Tag: smart home
Foobot air quality monitor aims to beat asthma in smart homes
NEWSBYTE With governments around the world focused on reducing pollution levels and improving air quality in cities, one startup is looking to take that...
Israeli hackers breach baby monitors, smart homes in 30 minutes
NEWSBYTE: Researchers at Ben Gurion University in Israel have found that a variety of off-the-shelf smart home devices, including security cameras, doorbells, and baby...
Smart fridges to come out of cold in $342 billion boom
Increasing interest in the Internet of Things (IoT) could drive smart appliance revenues to over $342 billion worldwide, claims a new report.
When analysts started...
UK government proposes IoT security and device labelling scheme
The UK government has proposed an IoT device labelling scheme to ensure that consumers are aware of a product’s security features at the point...
Privacy: Radar sensors build 3D pictures without cameras
Tel Aviv startup Vayyar Imaging is developing radar sensing for residential and commercial environments.
The technology can accurately build a picture of 3D spaces in...
Kerching! Amazon pays $1 billion for a doorbell. Smart idea?
Amazon has bolstered its smart home offering with the acquisition of Ring, a California-based maker of video doorbells and security cameras, in a deal thought to...
Alexa beware! New smart home tests reveal serious privacy flaws
Amazon Echo among devices from Netatmos, D-Link, Nokia, and Sonos found to raise privacy or security concerns. One device so insecure the vendor was...
Smart homes and the IoT changing consumer attitudes to energy
Consumers are checking their energy consumption in real time, which makes them critical of the status quo. The result? New revenue streams for providers.
Despite...
More firms switching to IoT to improve building management, says report
The demand for building automation systems (BAS) is surging as businesses explore new ways of improving energy efficiency.
According to a new report from market...
Samsung pledges to make all products ‘IoT ready’ by 2020
Samsung aims to drive IoT adoption by boosting interoperability, through the use of standards and an 'open platform' approach.
South Korean multinational conglomerate Samsung has...
Smart speaker sales set to race past 50 million in 2018
As the smart speaker market matures, Amazon and Google will face more competition and homegrown players will seek to ignite demand in China.
"Alexa, tell...
Otto closes doors on $699 smart lock business
Otto, the IoT-enabled door lock company, closed down and sacked all of its staff just before Christmas.
Otto's business was built on a door lock...