TCL Unveils The Ultimate Connected Home Hub: Xess With Amazon Alexa

IRVINE, Calif., Nov. 1, 2016 /PRNewswire/ TCL , one of the fastest-growing consumer electronics brands in North America, today announced the next generation of Xess now with Amazon Alexa. Thanks to new functionality of the Alexa voice service paired with the Xess’s innovative hardware features, TCL is now able to offer a complete mobile home […]

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Vitria Announces VIA – An IoT Analytics Platform for the Internet of Things Era

Vitria Technology IoT changes everything,” said JoMei Chang, CEO of Vitria Technology. “And real-time analytics are at the core of value creation in the connected world of IoT. ..” Sunnyvale, CA (PRWEB) November 01, 2016 Vitria Technology today announced the availability of Vitria VIA – a major new release of its IoT Analytics Platform designed

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Kwikset Expands Use of Patented SmartKey Security to Automotive Industry

LAKE FOREST, Calif.–(BUSINESS WIRE)– Kwikset® will expand its patented SmartKey™ security to the automotive accessories industry through a newly announced partnership with Horizon Global Corporation, one of the world’s leading manufacturers of branded towing and trailering equipment. Kwikset, the leading residential lock manufacturer and America’s number one selling lock brand, partnered with Horizon Global, to

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Connected Appliance Shipments to Pass 200m pa by 2021 as Vendors Develop eCommerce …

Hampshire, UK – 1st November 2016: A new study from Juniper Research has found that the number of connected home appliance shipments is set to reach 202 million globally by 2021, rising from just 17 million in 2016. It argued that with the additional cost of including basic connectivity now less than $10, hardware manufacturers

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Technically speaking: how designers are putting the home back into home tech

Merchandising slogans like ‘intelligent home’ and ‘automated home’ have been banded around since the 1964 New York World’s Fair. In recent times, these have become increasingly difficult to decode. Despite the unprecedented potential of smart home technology, when faced with the prospect of AI butlers and networking kitchens, it’s easy to see why even the

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IoT interoperability: Where it stands and what comes next

The Allseen Alliance earlier this month merged with the Open Connectivity Foundation with plans to operate under the OCF name in working towards interoperability in the “internet of things” market through open source software frameworks and standards. IoT interoperability is a hot topic at conferences around the world, with the forecast billions of forthcoming IoT devices

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Google Home, Assistant, Nest and Cast Merge as Unified Smart Home Ecosystem

By Julie Jacobson · October 31, 2016 Google Home, the smart home hub that could put Amazon Echo (Alexa) to shame, was announced recently with a new speech-recognition engine called Google Assistant. At the same time, the company introduced the Pixel mobile phone with the new voice-control platform onboard. (Assistant is not available for other

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