Tag: Smart homes
UCSD engineers develop near-zero-power sensor for ‘unawearables’
Electrical engineers at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD), have unveiled a temperature sensor capable of running on just 113 picowatts of power:...
Amazon’s Alexa can now control your smart home cameras
Amazon has unveiled its new Smart Home Skill API, which will allow developers to create apps that let customers watch live video feeds from...
UK insurance market lags on digital, says LexisNexis
The UK insurance market needs to adopt digitization faster – or risk losing out to new, more automated players, according to a new study...
Hazelcast aims for cleaner windows on IoT data
Open source in-memory data grid (IMDG) company Hazelcast has reached the 0.4 release of Hazelcast Jet. This developer and data architect-level technology works with fast-flowing continuous...
More digital assistants than people by 2021, says Ovum
Digital assistants will outnumber people within the next four years if the predictions in a new research report from Ovum come to pass. The...
Apple joins race for smart home supremacy with HomePod
Apple has upped the ante in the race for smart home supremacy with the launch of HomePod at its worldwide developers' conference in San...
Powervault to give electric car batteries a second life in smart...
Automaker Renault is partnering with UK-based smart home energy storage specialist Powervault in a deal that will see batteries previously used to power electric vehicles...
IKEA to launch smart light compatibility with Alexa, Siri and Google
Furniture and home decor retailer IKEA has announced that its smart lighting range is about to get a whole lot smarter. The Trådfri product line...
Qualcomm launches mesh networking platform for home IoT devices
A new reference design from semiconductor and telecoms equipment company Qualcomm aims to help smart device manufacturers bring new products to market.
Qualcomm has unveiled its new...
Imont: Has IoT broken the cloud business model?
Has IoT broken the cloud business model? Nigel Pugh, CEO at IoT software start-up Imont, believes there are issues that need to be addressed.
Pugh...
Start-up of the month: ShadeCraft solar-powers autonomous robotics
Internet of Business spends five minutes with Armen Gharabegian, founder of LA-based IoT start-up ShadeCraft, to discuss the company's solar-powered autonomous robot Sunflower.
What does ShadeCraft do?
ShadeCraft...
Customers unconvinced by insurance providers’ IoT ambitions
The majority of US insurance companies see a bright future ahead for themselves as homes increasingly become more ‘smart’.
According to new research findings...