Smart Homes

TP-LINK, a provider of home, small, and medium business networking solutions, has released its new SR20 Smart Home Router with Touchscreen, an all-in-one router and Internet of Things (IoT) hub with ZigBee and Z-Wave.

Inmarsat, a provider of global mobile satellite communications services, is partnering with Actility, providers in Low Power Wide Area Networks (LPWAN), and a founding member of the LoRa Alliance, to enable an end-to-end IoT solution to connect assets over public and private networks, anywhere in the world.

ACADINE™ Technologies, a provider of operating systems software / service platforms for a new generation of smart devices, announced the release of H5OS, a scalable HTML5-based and commercially ready Operating System (OS) created for mobile devices and the IoT. H5OS’s design has two key products – H5OS CORE and H5OS Feature Packs – which together

The winners of this year’s Future Digital Awards for Technology & Innovation were announced.

Taipei, Taiwan – ThroughTek, IoT platform solutions provider, presents use case demonstrations of products and third party services working with Kalay Platform at MWC 2016 in Barcelona. The latest developments to the Streaming Server standout as the primary differentiators between Kalay Platform and the competition, delivering real-time transmission of multimedia and content rich files. This

Deutsche Telekom has welcomed five new partners to its QIVICON smart home platform; Smappee, Plugwise, Grünspar, E WIE EINFACH and Stadtwerke Karlsruhe.

Greg Waite, CEO of InventionShare™, reported that 5by5 Wireless™ is now working with agents, country partners, governments, ISPs and telcos in various partnership programmes to support high speed internet developments through large area wireless consumer applications and IoT and smart city applications in over 30 countries.

Since 2000, when the first camera phone was introduced, the number of mobile users has quintupled. By 2020, there will be 5.5 billion mobile users, representing 70% of the global population, according to the release of the Cisco Visual Networking Index™ (VNI) Global Mobile Data Traffic Forecast (2015 to 2020).

Active Assisted Living Elderly people represent an ever-growing proportion of the population. By 2025, there will be 820 million people aged 65 and older globally. The shift in demographics towards an ageing population will make it impossible to keep everyone who needs care in hospital. Fortunately, advanced bio‑monitoring systems and remote monitoring technologies make it

Essence recently surveyed mobile owners in the U.S. and Europe to determine their likelihood to adopt SmartHome technology. This is what they found.

One of the most daunting tasks for any platform or device vendor in the smart home market is identifying which type of company offers the best opportunity for long-term success – security providers, multiple service operators (MSOs), smart home specialists, do-it-yourself (DIY) smart-home systems or utilities.

Robot maids? Voice-activated appliances? Automatic meals? The smart home of the Jetsons, America’s favourite space-age family, is hovering ever closer to reality. And in 2016 it will arrive on our doorstep.

ComfyLight – the smart security light and CES 2016 Innovation Awards Honouree – announced that it will launch its Kickstarter campaign with the aim of raising 50,000 Euros. The new and unique home security solution comes in the form of an LED lamp with the goal to actively protect homes from burglars.

It has been a tough evaluation process for the international expert jury of the IoT / M2M Innovation World Cup 2015/16, but the best and most innovative companies have now been selected.

Smart Homes were one of the main topics at this year’s CES. Manufacturers like Samsung presented a wide range of new products and solutions such as the intelligent ‘Family Hub Refrigerator’, whilst other organisations like the ULE Alliance or the DSP Group announced new partnerships.

For the smart home market, 2015 will be viewed as a launch-pad year for many suppliers. Although most of the top security device vendors have had smart devices in their portfolios from previous years, it was only last year that device suppliers moved to retake the ecosystem. So says Blake Kozak of IHS in a