Tag: smart home
Amazon Echo Dot review: Smart home assistant shows teenage potential
Internet of Business Editor Doug Drinkwater reviews the Amazon Echo Dot – the $49 voice assistant threatening to make your home smart, and your...
Barriers to IoT adoption: Removing inhibitors may create new opportunities
IoB Insiders Analysys Mason analyst Tom Rebbeck says the industry still needs to make IoT adoption easier for end-users deploying these technologies.
The Internet of Things...
Smart home guide: How to set-up your Amazon Echo or Echo...
Internet of Business looks at how to set-up your Amazon Echo or Amazon Echo Dot – the virtual, voice assistants looking to make you,...
Smart home revenue to top $190bn by 2021
A new report from Juniper Research predicts that global revenues for smart home hardware and services are set to grow from $83 billion this...
Target opens pop-up smart home store to promote IoT technologies
US retail giant Target is introducing a concept smart home store to give consumers some hands-on experience with new IoT products coming to market.
Target,...
GE & Nest partner to protect smart homes from malfunctioning ovens
General Electric (GE) Appliances this week announced that the Nest Protect smart smoke detector will work with its Wi-Fi connected ovens in smart homes.
The...
IoT pilot aims to improve social housing, combat fuel poverty
Flagship Group is trialing an Internet of Things (IoT) pilot scheme to change the way housing providers operate in future.
The venture, which is being...
Trend Micro partners with Asus to beef up IoT security in...
Trend Micro has recently partnered with Asus in a move to protect home networks against malicious Internet of Things (IoT) security threats.
The cyber-security solutions...
Dixons Carphone partners with SSE to take smart home mainstream
Dixons Carphone, the biggest electronics and mobile phones retailer in Europe, and British energy supplier SSE are partnering in a bid to make smart...
Google launches Android Things, a new IoT platform for developers
Google has launched Android Things, a new comprehensive Internet of Things (IoT) platform to make it quicker and easier to build IoT products using...
Orbita looks to empower patients with Amazon’s Alexa
Orbita has created a tool that allows healthcare organizations to build voice assistants for patients in their home.
The company, which provides software solutions for...
Microsoft wants to take on Amazon and Google with smart home...
Interest in smart home technology is constantly growing with tech giants like Amazon and Google having already announced their offerings, but now Microsoft wants...