Smart Homes

Cyan Technology’s executive chairman, John Cronin, has years of telecoms experience on his side. Now he’s applying lessons learned in other businesses to make strides in smart metering for emerging markets such as China, India and Brazil. But, he tells Jeremy Cowan, he just wishes he could give their chips away free!

The US Government’s Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has announced that its Bureau of Consumer Protection is to replace the existing Mobile Technology Unit with a new Office of Technology Research and Investigation (OTRI).

Zurich, Switzerland — The six winners of the IoT / M2M Innovation World Cup 2015 received their awards at the Swisscom M2M Day in Zurich on Thursday. qipp AG not only won the Connected Home category but also carried off the prize as overall winner for its product ALLTHINGS | HOME.

San Antonio, Texas, USA. March 3, 2015:  Compass Intelligence, which describes itself as a strategy acceleration firm, has released a new report on the Internet of Things (IoT) and machine-to-machine (M2M) market. Sensors in M2M & IoT: A Global Analysis for Growth Opportunities and Solutions is out today.

Barcelona / Zurich / Munich – The international jury of the IoT / M2M Innovation World Cup has now selected ‘the most innovative IoT solutions worldwide’. The winners in each of the six categories will be announced at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Spain on March 3, and the official award ceremony will follow at

London & Cambridge, UK – AlertMe announced on Friday it has agreed the sale of the company to British Gas (part of the Centrica plc group) in a deal said to be worth UK£65 million (US$100 million). This news follows on the heels of ARM’s purchase of Offspark, a Dutch IoT communications security company.

London, UK — Integrated system and software design company, Cyan has won the Innovation of the Year Award 2015 at the 6th annual Smart Energy UK & Europe Awards for its CyLec® smart metering solution. The system has been designed for the power sector in next generation economies.

Jon Carter, Deutsche Telekom’s UK head of Business Development – Connected Home, has identified several key expectations for the sector in 2015. Here he shares his thoughts exclusively with M2M Now.

Devices and machines which can be connected to multi-functional networks are in high demand. Network-compatible solutions are already common in IT and other sectors such as automation and smart homes. However, most products are expensive, limited to individual manufacturers, or difficult to install.

Today’s connected home is a changing place. The growing  infiltration of high speed broadband is allowing consumers to acquire new habits and new devices with greater interconnection capacities. According to a new study by Parks Associates, 11% of Spanish homes with broadband already have a smart system for controlling homes, ahead of the UK’s  9%,

According to research firm TechNavio, the Connected M2M Home Appliance Market in the US is expected to witness significant growth, with a CAGR of 49.98 percent from 2014-2018.

We don’t think about radon in our home. We prefer to think that it can’t happen to us, or that we don’t live in a radon “hot zone.” We have smoke detectors to protect against fire, and carbon monoxide detectors so we don’t die in our sleep, but until now there has never been a

The 12 nominees from the four categories of the European Utility Week Product Innovation Awards have been made public. After an intense period of sifting through the numerous entries the judges announced the three nominees from each of the four categories.

Although designs have changed over the years, consumers have been using the same basic technology since the 1880s to switch on and off the lighting in their homes and offices. Now, with smartphone penetration at an all-time high and the market for smart LED bulbs increasing exponentially, has the time finally come to permanently turn

The ZigBee Alliance, a global ecosystem of organisations creating wireless solutions for use in energy management, commercial and consumer applications, has announced the ratification of the ZigBee Remote Control 2.0 standard. The standard is now available for product development and can be downloaded for free from the Alliance website.

Dialog Semiconductor plc, a provider of highly integrated power management, AC/DC, solid-state lighting and Bluetooth® Smart wireless technology, has announced the company’s further expansion into the Smart Home and Human Interface Device (HID) market with a design win that will feature in a number of OEM wireless Remote Control Units (RCUs) for Smart TVs and