smart home

Matter is here, but it’s still a long road to the simple smart home. Matter’s launch event showcased speed and interoperability, but now it’s up to the platforms to deliver simplicity. Read more in the verge All the smart home…

Smart home features are becoming increasingly popular each year. Around the world, people are making the switch to simplify their lives and increase efficiency.While these changes may make your property feel futuristic, what value does smart home integration offer? Read…

Today, one in four adults in the U.S. own a smart speaker and surveys suggest a majority of American households now own at least one smart-home product. Globally, the smart-home market is projected to nearly double from $78 billion in…

The smart home should make our lives easier, safer and better. But instead it is stuck in project mode, suspended in early-adopter limbo and without mass-market adoption. This research is a new way of looking at how people live at…

For multinational tech firms  the disabled segment remains a niche. Specialist technology developers and disability experts are combining to help fill this gap. Global Disability Innovation (GDI) hub,  is bringing businesses, academics and charities together to design smart-tech solutions for…

The process towards the automated home began almost two centuries ago now. When we first plugged our homes in, the light bulb gave us the night.Now, the technological trend continues to carry us through the next generation into a new…

A tipping point may be at hand. Increased computing power, advanced big data analytics, and the emergence of artificial intelligence (AI) are starting to change the way we go about our busy lives. Within a decade, many of us will…

Insurance companies  think that urging us to wire our homes with Internet-connected devices will open up a flood of lucrative new data that can make their existing business of handling claims more efficient while creating a new relationship with the customer.…

This magic mirror is basically a one-way mirror, made “smart” by a simple LCD display which sits behind the mirror and displays white UI elements with a black background. read more in serious wonder Microsoft’s IOT Magic Mirror For Your…

One estimate suggests that the data servers required to power the internet already produce as much greenhouse gas as the airline industry (around 2% of global emissions). Some predict that server electricity use will treble in the next decade. Read…