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Why are so many connected appliances still unconnected?

January 27, 2023 Jouko Ahvenainen 0

Many new appliances at home can be connected to the Internet. But that doesn’t mean you have to – and many customers would rather not. Here’s why. Read more…

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‘Matter’ will have a limited impact on the smart-home sector

October 18, 2022 Richard Windsor 0

The new Matter standard for smart homes could potentially end the fragmentation and incompatibility plaguing the sector. Here’s why that probably won’t happen. Read more…

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How a Google Cloud outage brought down the (smart) house

June 11, 2019 John C. Tanner 0

We learned last week that when Google Cloud goes down, so do your smart appliances. Or at least your ability to control them remotely. That’s bad, right? Read more…

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Smart home = $11.2b opportunity for telcos: report

August 9, 2018 News Centre 0

Smart homes will be a $11.2 billion opportunity for telcos in 2022, according to a new report from ABI Research – however, they’ll have to work hard to get a piece of that smart home Read more…

IoT
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Here’s what consumers really want from IoT: CSG survey

May 18, 2018 News Centre 0

Consumers have great expectations for the IoT as a wearable experience and a smart home enabler – but they’re also wary of complexity, according to a new global consumer market survey from CSG. As the Read more…

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Sino Group and China Mobile Hong Kong sign NB-IoT/5G pact

May 11, 2018 News Centre 0

Sino Group and China Mobile Hong Kong (CMHK) have signed a strategic Memorandum of Understanding to develop pre-5G infrastructure across Sino Group’s residential and commercial properties, using CMHK’s NB-IoT technology. The partnership will initially encompass Read more…

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Smart homes generate tons of consumer data, and everybody wants some

April 20, 2018 News Centre 0

Smart home devices and systems promise to deliver a new world of detailed consumer data and insight – and telcos, retailers, advertisers, and a host of service providers are keen to leverage those insights, finds a Read more…

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Broadband Forum USP standard enables smart-home device management

April 19, 2018 News Centre 0

The Broadband Forum has published its new User Services Platform (USP) standard for implementing, deploying and managing all types of devices in the broadband home. An evolution of the TR-069 standard, USP brings a unified, Read more…

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Dialog Axiata and Orange Electric launch IoT Wi-Fi socket

April 6, 2018 News Centre 0

Sri Lankan operator Dialog Axiata has partnered with local electrical and lighting products manufacturer Orange Electric to launch the first IoT Wi-Fi socket manufactured in Sri Lanka. Operating exclusively on the Dialog Smartlife platform for Read more…

IoT
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The future of IoT in India is turning the lights off: Tata survey

February 23, 2018 News Centre 0

The home is the principal environment where people in India expect IoT to make a visible and significant difference – mainly to make sure they didn’t leave the lights on. That’s according to the first Read more…

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Apple’s HomePod is too little too late for the smart speaker game

January 31, 2018 Richard Windsor 0

Apple’s much awaited HomePod is now available for pre-order and will start shipping on February 9. At $399, it is going up against some of the very best that the audio industry has to offer. Read more…

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The virtual assistant war is coming to your home appliances

January 15, 2018 News Centre 0

LAS VEGAS (Reuters) – Who would you rather have in your fridge? Alexa, Cortana, or some as-yet unknown virtual assistant? Manufacturers of appliances and other products are considering factors such as ease of use and Read more…

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Nokia showcases smart home sleep sensor at CES

January 11, 2018 News Centre 0

Nokia has launched a sleep sensor at CES 2018 that delivers personalized sleep analysis and offers smart home control through IFTTT (if this then that) integration. The sensor, called Nokia Sleep, is a Wi-Fi enabled Read more…

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Alibaba AI Labs and MediaTek unveil Smartmesh for Tmall Genie

January 11, 2018 News Centre 0

Alibaba AI Labs, which leads the development of Alibaba’s consumer artificial intelligent products, and chipset maker MediaTek have announced the first Smartmesh connectivity solution in China that supports the latest many-to-many Bluetooth mesh technology, in Read more…

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Most consumers want smart-home kit installed by humans: survey

October 25, 2017 Alex Leslie 0

It is tempting to believe that installing all those home devices, such as security, lighting and monitoring will be an easy task. Surely in this digital age, an app or some remote bot can open Read more…

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#ITUWorld: SK Telecom showcases “Do IoT Yourself” kits

September 28, 2017 News Centre 0

Smart homes, smart metering, quantum cryptography and 5G powered autonomous vehicles were among the innovations showcased by SK Telecom at ITU Telecom World 2017. During the event in Busan, South Korea, visitors were invited to Read more…

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Google Assistant needs more than great AI to rule the smart home

September 4, 2017 Richard Windsor 0

Google is great at getting third parties to build hardware that uses its software, but needs to work on developers of smart home devices if it wants to trounce Amazon. Following the general availability of Read more…

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SK Telecom releases mini-me version of Nugu AI speaker

August 9, 2017 News Centre 0

SK Telecom has unveiled a miniature version of its Nugu artificial intelligence-powered speaker that sports new features such as movie info, financial services and an audio book service. “Nugu” refers to both SK Telecom’s AI Read more…

Roomba
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The future of Roomba is IoT, big data and spatial mapping

July 25, 2017 News Centre 0

(Reuters) – The Roomba robotic vacuum has been whizzing across floors for years, but its future may lie more in collecting data than dirt. That data is of the spatial variety: the dimensions of a Read more…

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Another fine mesh: Bluetooth targets smart buildings with new specs

July 20, 2017 John C. Tanner 0

Bluetooth has just evolved from device-pairing to a smart-building enabler thanks to a new mesh networking capability optimized for creating large-scale device networks. The Bluetooth Special Interest Group (SIG) says that the mesh feature is Read more…

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