Selling Voice Control? Integrators Express 10 Concerns at HTSA Conference

Voice control platforms like Amazon’s Alexa, Apple’s Siri, and Google’s Google Home are taking the smart home industry by storm.Home loudspeakers, light fixtures, thermostats and, more recently, complete home automation systems from Crestron and Control4 are integrating the technology to provide consumers with a hand-free mode of managing the electronic devices in their homes … […]

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Qualcomm Buys NXP for $47 Billion, Turning Eyes to Internet of Things

Qualcomm’s booth at the 2016 CES show. (Image courtesy of Maurizio Pesce, Creative Commons). Qualcomm has made the clearest statement yet that its future lies beyond smartphones. The chipmaker said Monday morning that it had signed an agreement to buy NXP Semiconductors for $47 billion. The acquisition is by far the largest in Qualcomm’s history, but it also

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Earth Networks Launches Connected Savings Energy Intelligence Platform

GERMANTOWN, Md.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Earth Networks today announced the launch of its Connected Savings℠ platform (formerly WeatherBug Home) to provide consumers with energy savings and comfort by delivering unprecedented energy intelligence through the integration of Internet of Things (IoT)-connected smart home devices, proprietary weather data, and its patented and predictive algorithms. Connected Savings is an Intelligent Demand

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Connected Home Appliances Market with Current Trends Analysis, 2016-2026

Connected home appliances are smart electronic appliances having internet connectivity, which can be accessible from any remote location using mobile devices such as smart phones, tablets and laptops. In short, any electronic home appliance if provided with internet connectivity would become connected home appliance. Smart home appliances enable users to monitor and control household activities

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Dyn Attacks: Should Device Manufacturers Be Held Responsible for Internet of Things Attack? [Video]

Device manufacturers’ failure to inform customers to change default passwords in their interconnected devices is being looked into as the cause of the DDoS attack on Dyn. Advertisement A yet unidentified entity was using an army of connected devices that attacked Dyn, one company that provides the address book for the internet. The resulting attack

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This is how the 'Internet of Things' is changing the business model of the world's biggest …

Schneider Electric Like it or not, the Internet of Things is here: Smart, internet-connected devices are infiltrating every industry, from hospitality to retail to manufacturing to healthcare, helping companies run their businesses more efficiently.  There will be roughly 24 billion IoT devices connected to the internet by 2020, accordingto a BI Intelligence report, which says that

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Amazon Echo review: Human-like AI is worth the money even if it does have teething problems

Thursday 27 October 2016 Wired Intuitive control, easy third-party connections Tired Sometimes Alexa mis-hears and can’t answer challenging questions Price £149.99 It took Amazon almost two years to bring its flagship hardware to the United Kingdom. Since the launch of the Amazon Echo, the firm has already followed it with the smaller, hockey puck-sized Echo

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