Trey Pascador, Author at Padtronics

Brilliant's Control is poised to become a main control hub for smart home devices

With the surge of the smart home appliances and gadgets, the Brilliant Control is a San Mateo, California-based startup’s answer for the all-in-one smart home control panel. The Control is designed to easily replace a conventional light switch, with an installation designed to take no longer than 5-10 minutes. In my mind, the most important aspect about a product like this is […]

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Brilliant uses voice and touch commands to control your smart home

Is the smartphone on its way out? San Mateo, Calif.-based Brilliant Home Technology announced that it has created the Brilliant Control, a smart lighting solution that gives anyone in the house the ability to access music, climate, and other common smart home devices with just a simple touch or voice command. No smartphone is required.

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Arrow Executive: IoT Is 'The Next Evolution Of Opportunity' For The Channel

Jeth Harbinson, director of Internet of Things business development at Arrow Electronics, said he has seen the IoT market “explode” over the past 12 to 24 months – and that is translating into sales for the channel. Today, 10 percent of Arrow’s revenue comes from IoT, but in the next five years 60 percent of

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How many things in the Internet of Things? 8.4 billion, one estimate says

The Internet of Things (IoT) continues to gather steam. Research firm Gartner Inc. is forecasting that 8.4 billion connected things will be in use worldwide this year, up 31% from 2016, and will reach 20.4 billion by 2020. Total spending on endpoints and services will reach almost $2 trillion in 2017, the firm said. Regionally,

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Amazon Preps For Apple, Google AI War With Smart Move

Amazon’s Alexa Vs. Google Assistant. Head-to-head. Image credit: Jay McGregor Amazon’s strategy to make Alexa available absolutely everywhere on every device ever created will give it the advantage it needs in the upcoming AI wars. The news that Amazon is making its AI technology available in the UK to third party developers (it’s been available

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IBM's Biggest-Ever Blockchain Trade Finance Trial Could Go Global

Two government agencies funded IBM’s latest blockchain implementation, the largest ever in terms of parties involved and arguably one of the more impressive in the sophistication of the offering. With support from both Dubai Customs and Dubai Trade, IBM has so far courted a telecommunications service provider, a letter of credit issuing bank, a responding bank,

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Internet Of Things Face Tracking Systems Created Using Ardion, Android And CC3000 (video)

A new Internet of Things face tracking and recognition system has been created by Vicente Arturo Zavala Ortiz using an android smartphone, a little Arduino and a SparkFun WiFi Breakout board in the form of the CC3000. Watch the video below to learn more about the system and also jump over to the Hackster website

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Logitech ZeroTouch Brings Alexa to Your Car

The Logitech ZeroTouch was created to allow anyone to keep their eyes on the road and not on the Android powered smartphone at the heart of their daily routines. Now the accessory maker is taking that mission to new levels with a software update that lets anyone use what appears to be the most popular

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CRN Exclusive: Unified Office Aims To Help Restaurants Turn Healthy Profits By Adding IoT …

Unified Office, a Nashua, N.H.-based managed services provider (MSP), is adding new IoT management capabilities to communications and business analytics platform for restaurants, called Total Connect Now. The new capabilities, introduced at IoT Evolution Expo this week in Fort Lauderdale, Fla., are aimed at helping the restaurant industry to uphold regulatory compliance, track food inventory and manage

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Internet of Things (IoT) in Retail Market Worth $94.44 Billion by 2025: Grand View Research, Inc.

SAN FRANCISCO, Feb 08, 2017 (PR Newswire Europe via COMTEX) — SAN FRANCISCO, February 8, 2017 /PRNewswire/ — The globalIoT in retail market [http://www.grandviewresearch.com/industry-analysis/internet-of-things-iot-retail-market ] is expected to reach USD 94.44 billion by 2025, according to a new report by Grand View Research, Inc. This growth can be attributed to the merging of digital and

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