A new gesture and motion smart home controller launched via Kickstarter this week which has been developed by a team based in the UK, who are looking to raise £20,000 over the next 30 days to make the jump into production. Trajectio is a motion powered home automation using widely available sensors to detect motion […]
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Z-Wave Alliance Initiates Mandatory Security Protocol for All Certified Devices By: HomeTheaterReview.com, April 4, 2017 The Z-Wave Alliance has announced that, effective immediately, all new Z-Wave certified devices must adhere to a new security protocol to ensure that users of Z-Wave smart home products are protected. Z-Wave is a wireless mesh networking protocol utilized by
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Just as Rome wasn’t built in a day, the industrial IoT will develop in a piecemeal fashion. The emerging Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) is a very big deal, and an overwhelming one. Moving to IIoT — to capture and be able to act on real-time information on production, machine health, facility conditions, supply chain
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New security methods around connected things may help consumers more safely pay for things they are buying. Biometric identifiers are growing and providing new ways to authenticate who someone is. One method of identification is a fingerprint scan. In 2013, only two smartphone models had fingerprint sensors on them, but by last year, 205 different
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In today’s information age, data is a key ingredient to success. However, while it’s important, having availability to the right data and being able to analyze it to glean critical and accurate insights is essential. As Albert Einstein once put it, “Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be
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Courtesy PhotoImage Courtesy PhotoImage Deb Fischer Today, “smart” phones connect people to the Internet, wherever they happen to be. A person can see and send all kinds of pictures, quotes, comments and news articles to friends and acquaintances with the touch of a finger on the smart phone screen (assuming their smart phone is working
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Despite all the hype around concepts such as the internet of things and big data analytics, the practical application of such ideas has yet to truly materialize. I know, this seems to throw shade on all those top-secret algorithms developed by Facebook or Twitter or Amazon and others that collect information on consumer behavior, locational
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Well, we can&rsquot say we didn&rsquot see this Internet of Things snafu coming. Using rudimentary methods, U.K. safety firm very easily hacked into a $249 connected vibrator. On best of getting capable to manage the device, the vibrator is outfitted with a camera, so a hacker could also watch its video stream unbeknownst to the user. The vibrator,
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