A wall-mounted touch screen light switch for controlling smart home devices. Logitech POP Switches for the simplicity of controlling my smart lights like dumb lights, and now Brilliant is offering a new smart light switch along the same lines. The company announced the Brilliant Control, a smart light switch and home automation controller with a […]
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Why it matters to you While smartphones often serve as hubs for smart homes, Brilliant Control let you use simple touch and voice commands instead. Who needs a smartphone when you have a voice? Suggesting that the future of smart home control will center not on any device but rather on yourself is a new startup
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I’ve checked out a lot of smart light switches since I built my own smart home in 2007, but Brilliant’s Brilliant Control is the most exciting lighting control I’ve seen since I’ve been able to control my lights with Amazon’s Alexa. This one works with Alexa, of course—in fact, Alexa Voice Service is built in—but
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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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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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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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’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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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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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