The All Seen Alliance has scored an interesting new member with the EnOcean Alliance, a group of 300 companies dedicated to sustainable building controls and automation using wireless energy harvesting sensors and… Read more »
This year is going to be a big one for Bluetooth technologies in the smart home. Thanks to some updates in the Bluetooth standard from a year ago, we’re seeing products… Read more »
Don’t freak out, but the products inside your smart home have some serious security flaws, according to a new report out from enterprise security research firm Synack. The company tested 16… Read more »
Wink, the relatively new company that spun out from Quirky to sell connected home devices and software, is looking to be a serious contender in the home automation sector with the… Read more »
Regional mobile carrier US Cellular announced a new home automation and security service called OnLook, which looks to be aimed squarely at AT&T’s Digital Life and other smart-home-in-a-box services.s US Cellular… Read more »
Users of Comcast’s Xfinity X1 set-top box can now make use of IFTTT to receive messages on their TV or even change the channel upon a certain event. Comcast’s Chief Business Development… Read more »
“Insteon, I’m home!” With those words, an Insteon home automation system and a Microsoft Windows Phone 8.1 handset, you could unlock your doors and turn on your lights. Read more »
The Peq home automation system is pitched at mainstream consumers who are willing to install their own light switches but who also don’t mind paying a $10 monthly service fee. Read more »
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 »
What if your heater could tell you it was having problems before you needed to turn it on for the winter? Tado turns this into a reality and will even help… Read more »