Ten year runtime from coin cell battery is CES talking point in smart home chip
Ahead of CES in Las Vegas, it had not been difficult to predict that components and gadgets in the smart home category would be part of the mix.
Hardware
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Security
Researchers examine eavesdropping on smart-home traffic metadata
(Tech Xplore)—Uh-oh. Those smart-home devices can reveal personal information about your home activities and encryption does not resolve the risk either. A study indicates that ISPs can infer activities by analyzing Internet ...
Security
Dojo is pebble-shaped monitor for protecting smart home devices
(Tech Xplore)—BullGuard issued a press release at the end of last month making a case for why we need to be thinking about security for smart-home devices.
Consumer & Gadgets
Your smart home is trying to reprogram you
A father finds out his daughter is pregnant after algorithms identify tell-tale patterns in the family's store card data. Police charge suspects in two separate murder cases based on evidence taken from a Fitbit tracker and ...
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Consumer & Gadgets
Hayo will enable magical moves to control your connected home
(Tech Xplore)—What if you had some virtual remote control for your home, no screen, physical remote, no yelling across the room?
Consumer & Gadgets
Brilliant Control sports smart lighting, can work with other smart home devices
(Tech Xplore)—A California-based tech company Brilliant on Wednesday announced Brilliant Control, and in so doing showed its ambitions in the smart home marketplace.
Robotics
Social Vyo adjusts temps, frets over unplugged irons, reacts to physical icons
We see there is another member of the growing crop of "social" robots that are being engineered to help you through your domestic tasks: Meet Vyo. This is a home robot for controlling smart home devices. It's the result of ...
Consumer & Gadgets
Silk Labs makes Sense with monitoring, automation actions
Electronic devices in our homes are becoming smart but technology leaves a lot to be desired. Steven Shankland in CNET looked ahead to what might be a day in the life of a smart home: "Once it [our electronic world] matures, ...
Consumer & Gadgets
Soft shine, smart functions in launch of Sony light
Home living in Japan is to take on a new light. Sony has answered the question: What if the lightbulb in your home could control almost everything else?
Telecom
Wi-Fi HaLow has low power, long range advantages
The Wi-Fi Alliance has announced the Wi-Fi HaLow designation for products incorporating IEEE 802.11ah technology. All in all, said tech watchers, this is a new low-power and long-range version which carries key advantages.
