iRobot Braava jet 240. Source: irobot.com The International Federation of Robotics forecast that the global market for vacuum cleaning robots, lawn-mowing robots and other household cleaning robots will grow at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 33% through 2019. Other research reports say the market will reach $2.5 billion by 2020 at a CAGR of 15%. […]
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Image: iStockphoto/mangpor_2004 More about Innovation The Internet of Things (IoT) industry is booming—in 2017, the number of connected devices in use worldwide will reach 8.4 billion, outnumbering people, according to a recent Gartner report. By 2020, more than 20.8 billion IoT devices will be in use, Gartner predicts. As connected homes, cars, and offices become
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Cisco Blog > SP360: Service Provider SP360: Service Provider Volker Tegtmeyer – February 13, 2017 – 0 Comments Contributors: Yves Padrines Making small changes to legacy systems isn’t enough – it’s time to leap into the virtual future Thanks to rapidly developing trends like the growth of the cloud, online video and the Internet of
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Google Assistant has been reported to arrive in a few smartphones launching this year, but it appears that it has arrived sooner than expected. The new Google app beta version has brought Google Assistant to older android devices like the Nexus 6P and the Samsung Galaxy Note 5, which may indicate that the feature may
“We’re taking what’s very complicated and simplifying it for the consumer,” says Vivint Smart Home cofounder and CEO Todd Pedersen. The Provo, Utah–based company solves the most common problems with intelligent appliances—namely that they’re often difficult to set up and don’t play nice with any other internet-connected devices—by approaching smart-home technology as a subscription-based service.
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Last October, 11-year-old Evan Spisak wandered down to his father’s basement workshop to help out on a weekend project, a time-honored tradition in homes across the country. But Evan’s father, Mike, is an IBM master inventor. And what they came up with was no birdhouse or pinewood derby car. It was Havyn, a homegrown voice
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ST. LOUIS, MO, Feb 13, 2017 – In a joint effort to improve the quality of life in urban areas, IoT and Smart City platform provider Fybr has teamed with IBM’s Watson Internet of Things group. This new partnership will bring sensor data from Fybr’s Smart City Platform to IBM’s Bluemix Cloud to take advantage
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Berg Insight, a Swedish M2M/IoT market research provider, reveals major grown in the mHealth market. In fact the number of remotely monitored patients grew by 44 percent to 7.1 million in 2016 as the market began a growth phase fueled by rising market acceptance in several key verticals. This number includes all patients enrolled in mHealth
Google last month hinted that they are bringing Home Control to Pixel smartphones soon and it seems that the company has finally started the rollout. Unfortunately, the Home Control feature on Pixel isn’t available to all users and is likely to be limited to some limited users only as of now. According to Gadgets, the Home
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Sure, your office may seem clean. But it’s probably not. Invisible network pollution contaminates the space, and it may open a door to evildoers. The pollution comes from the growing list of internet-connected devices: cellphones, security cameras, thermostats, door locks, printers, speakerphones, even coffeemakers. Not all of them have up-to-date security patches or strong password
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