Telefónica will take AT&T’s smart home automation and security platform for a whirl in Digital Life’s first licensing deal. It’s AT&T’s hope it can replicate Digital Life around the world… Read more »
Today a broad range of smart-home services is being marketed to consumers like never before. But if growth in awareness is to lead to a truly mass-market phenomenon, the connected consumer… Read more »
Smart home startup Control4 has filed for an IPO of up to $60 million, in the latest demonstration of the growth of connected home devices and services. Read more »
Cisco is bolstering its energy-management portfolio by acquiring JouleX, which works with the network giant’s EnergyWise protocol. The software could help users lower infrastructure overhead. Read more »
The deployment of smart meters combined with the growth of cloud computing infrastructure has created opportunities to build business models around the volume of emerging energy data. Those who use data… Read more »
LED lighting, though, expensive, is supposed to reduce energy use and electric bills for its owner over time. Startup Digital Lumens is looking at doing more than selling its smart LED… Read more »
As the smart city opens up new types of services and looks to address new technical, environmental and economic challenges, all stakeholders need to reconsider their roles and how those impact… Read more »
While some day in the future we could all have our own personal home battery systems combined with solar panels, Japanese home owners could get these goodies sooner, rather than later. Read more »