Just as people originally bought mobile phones to protect against hypothetical emergencies, so internet-connected smart devices now often sell comfort from fear. Motion cameras that deter evil babysitters. Recording doorbells that stave off solicitors and burglars. Propane scales that avert cook-out disaster. Sensor-tentacled boxes that warn against flooding.
Honda’s smart house of the future
Honda has designed a smart house that is an innovative eco-friendly, energy efficient lab, able to generate its own power as a solution to living off the grid.
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Which Smart Home Device will be Under your Tree this Year?
Apple’s splash into home automation with addition of HomeKit to iOS 8 is expected to have a huge impact on sales of smart home devices in 2015 according to a Park Associates report that found 37% of U.S. Households plan to purchase one or more devices next year.
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Two-thirds of American consumers don’t know what a smart home is
According to a new survey, two-thirds of the consumers in the U.S. with broadband are not very familiar with smart home services or products or where to buy them.
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What do Americans really want from their smart homes?
Smartphone-enabled, security-minded, and no monthly fees.
Homeowners in the U.S. would prefer a smartphone-enabled, do-it-yourself platform for home automation over a closed, subscription-based system. They also care a lot more about security and peace of mind than they do about saving on their energy bills.
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Devices for smart homes need to get a lot smarter
Apple HomeKit
The battle between Google and Apple is moving from smart phones to smart things, with both companies vying to provide the underlying architecture that networks your appliances, utilities, and entertainment equipment. Earlier in June, at its annual developer conference, Apple announced HomeKit, a new software framework for communications between home devices and Apple’s devices. Meanwhile, Nest, a maker of smart thermostats and smoke alarms that was bought by Google earlier this year for $3.2 billion, recently launched a similar endeavor with software that lets developers build apps for its products and those from several other companies.
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The Internet of Things will be a $290B market by 2017 that starts at home
Internet of Things start in the home.
The Internet of Things is poised to be the next wave of technology to wash over Silicon Valley and it may create a $290 billion global market by 2017, building on past tech waves like mobile, software, personal computers and semiconductors.
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Top 8 futuristic gifts for your smart home
Devices with “smart” technology these aren’t only our phones. It seems as if everything from watches to toothbrushes are integrating intelligent tech into its design.
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OpenRemote – software that ties the Internet of Things together
OpenRemote is an open-source Internet of Things platform.
If you were to buy several Internet-connected home gadgets—say, a “smart” thermostat, “smart” door lock, and “smart” window blinds—you would likely have to control each one with a separate app, meaning it exists on its own. But, that’s not how Elier Ramirez does it. In his home, an iPad app controls his lights, ceiling fans, and TV and stereo. Pressing a single button within the app can shut off all his lights and gadgets when he leaves.
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The cybercrime of things coming soon
Once everything in your house contains a computer, everything in your house can be hacked.
Security researchers have found that one of the problems with having a “smart” home is that some day, it might be smart enough to attack you. Everything we own, from our refrigerators and egg cartons to our cars and thermostats, will some day be outfitted with internet-connected sensors and control systems, allowing all our possessions, and ultimately all of our civic infrastructure, to communicate with each other and be controlled remotely.
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A multitouch floor could one day detect your heart attack
Multitouch floor.
The smart home of the future will need a way to sense who its residents are and what they’re doing. One way to do so may be through the floor.
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