By SSI Staff · February 8, 2017 BOSTON — Smart home systems must be secure by design across products and services and the entire supply chain if the industry is to deliver on its pledges and meet ambitious market growth predictions, according to Beecham Research. In its new report, “Bringing Security in the Smart Home: […]
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The integration of an intelligent voice assistant into everything from fridges to cars is all the rage at the moment, and high-end speaker manufacturer Sonos has shown it is well in the race. The US company today announced that Amazon’s voice assistant, Alexa, would be added to its range of speakers later this year via
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Submit the press release Orbis Research OrbisResearch.com has published new research report on “Industrial and Enterprise Internet of Things (IoT): Market Analysis and Forecasts for Enterprise IoT and IIoT 2017-2022” to its database. Industrial IoT (IIoT) is part of a broader trend towards the transformation of industry as part of a fourth industrial revolution (e.g.
Smart-home product U.S. dollar sales grew 57 percent in 2016 vs. the prior year, according to a recent survey by The NPD Group. Security and monitoring products once again led the category, making up over 60 percent of dollar share. Smart entry devices, such as smart doorbells, grew 171 percent in dollar sales and 206
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BOSTON (February 8, 2017)—Orbita, Inc., a leading provider of innovative software solutions for connected home health care, today announced a partnership with video collaboration solution provider, IVCi. The partnership will enable health care providers and home caregivers to easily connect homecare, mobile health and voice health assistant applications with scalable and secure video collaboration services.
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“It does not appear to support Apple HomeKit. “ Deal breaker. Really neat technology that is not needed by anyone. I grew up in a house with intercom panels in each room connected to a central station that included AM/FM radio. It was almost never used beyond the novelty factor. Many houses in the neighborhood
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“Our number one goal is to design the software as well as the hardware that blends into their lives.” The nexus of disruption as the digital world collides with the physical is the gadget. Yes, we have lots of apps. We have platforms and clouds and a whole bunch of data. Artificial intelligence and machine
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The concept of using gestures to control objects isn’t new. We’ve seen that in old technology like the clapper where clapping your hands turns the lights on or off. However its function was a bit limited, and with our homes these days becoming increasingly connected, the technology needed to step up its game, and this
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Ambient computing is Scott Dunlap’s jam, smartphone companion apps are the enemy. The chief product officer at smart home startup Brilliant Home Technology, founded by serial entrepreneur Aaron Emigh in 2014, doesn’t think $50,000 and cutting into your walls should separate the two. “Aaron realised that the more smart home products he had in his
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No surprise, really, that connected home sales experienced a surge last year. Between the seemingly exponential number of new players and driving pushes from major companies like Apple, Google and Amazon, the market’s been pretty tough to avoid. In a new study released this week, NPD is offering some insight into the phenomenon, noting that
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