GERMANTOWN, Md.–(BUSINESS WIRE)– To unlock the full potential of the connected home, Earth Networks today announced the world’s first do-it-yourself (“DIY”) home energy monitoring sensor and the establishment of a new division that will bring next generation energy intelligence technologies to market. Earth Networks also announced the acquisition of Whisker Labs, an Oakland CA based […]
Robert Marshall, president and chief executive of Earth Networks, at the company’s Germantown, Md., office in 2012. (Evy Mages for The Washington Post) The plethora of electronic devices in your home may plug into the same walls and draw electricity from the same source, but each has a unique signature or fingerprint that helps distinguish it
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Environmental technology company Earth Networks has spent two decades building sensors to monitor weather, lightning, and greenhouse gases. In order to amass more data (perhaps like SETI) while also helping consumers be better global stewards, the company has launched a home energy monitor that anyone can install. This product is the first to come from
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Photo Credit: Windows Central Last month, Google started shipping its Google Home smart speaker, which is direct rival to Amazon’s Echo speaker, and allows users to perform various tasks using just their voice commands. A recent report by Bloomberg has also claimed that Apple is working on a similar device that has already entered testing
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Image: Amazon There is a point where we will blankly stare at our Amazon Alexa devices and wish that it wasn’t so easy to order groceries and other retail goods. At that point, we’ll also lament the alternative — leaving the house and queuing behind strangers at the grocery store. There has got to be
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by Wayne Manion — 9:16 AM on December 5, 2016 Until now, Microsoft has been relegated to bit player status in the emerging digital home assistant sector, with the lion’s share of attention going to Amazon’s Alexa software running on the Echo family of devices. Windows Central reports that Redmond is gearing up for a
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I’m writing this post on my way home from the Amazon Web Service (AWS) re:Invent conference in Las Vegas, having spent a day in an analyst-only preview of all the news from the show. As I write this, the 30,000 or so attendees at the show are blissfully unaware of just how much is coming
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by Sam Dean – Dec. 05, 2016Comments (0) As 2016 draws to a close, some interesting predictions are arriving for what we’ll see on the technology and open source scenes next year. Here at OStatic, we have recieved several missives with specific predictions ranging from the growth of the Internet of Things to how cloud computing
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Download Slide Deck: ▸ Here Download Slide Deck: ▸ Here Next Generation Development Platforms for Next Generation Developers The Internet of Things will challenge the status quo of how IT and development organizations operate. Or will it? Certainly the fog layer of IoT requires special insights about data ontology, security and transactional integrity. But the
PALO ALTO, Calif., Dec. 5, 2016 /PRNewswire/ — Sensify Security – a company that delivers decentralized information security services for industrial & commercial IoT operations with centralized control, policy management & compliance – recently joined the The Industrial Internet Consortium® (IIC), the global, member-supported organization that promotes the accelerated growth of the Industrial Internet of