Smart Homes

GreenPeak Technologiesh has launched the new GP565 Smart Home radio chip for remote controls, that supports voice control, motion sensing and the new ZRC 2.0 protocol. Next generation remotes use RF instead of infrared (IR) and reportedly will be able to control all the home’s Smart Home features – all from a single remote.

The concept of the smart home or connected home – or domotics as it was called in the past – has been around for many years. Today, the smart home represents a strong opportunity for the M2M and IoT community, but also for more traditional industries working around products and services for the home. However, there is not much

The Internet of Things is set to create a market worth almost US$9 trillion by 2020. According to some analysts*, a large chunk of this business will be generated by smart connected homes. Antony Savvas reports on business developments in the smart home sector.

Mainland China and Taiwan have agreed to harmonise on G.hn as their ‘smart home’ wireline home network technology. Reports from Taiwan indicate that the country’s Institute for Information Industry (III) has played a leading role in this effort.

Washington DC, USA — SmartThings, the creator of the free-to-download home control app for smartphones, has been acquired by South Korea-based Samsung and will operate as an independent company within Samsung’s Open Innovation Center group. Now, as Jeremy Cowan reports, SmartThings’ CEO is responding to mixed views about the sale.

I have a connected light bulb in my living room, says Sachin Mahajan. Whenever India plays a cricket match, it turns blue, telling me to switch on the TV and kick back.

If you go away this summer and return to find an unexpectedly large phone or utility bill, spare a thought for Nigel and Linda Brotherton of Roughlee, UK who recently received a bill from their energy supplier, npower, for £500 million (€632 million).

Audio Lounge have partnered with Nebula Nine, an audio-visual system installation company to deliver a wide ranging portfolio from bespoke apps to control home lighting and entertainment systems to smartphone control of audio systems via fingerprint recognition.

Ever wished you could be in two places at once? A brand new Wi-Fi enabled camera doorbell will launch with a crowdfunding campaign later this month making it possible to do just that. Acting as an interactive peephole for the front door, the i-Bell is a newly released product in the fast growing home automation

HGI published a new document setting out requirements for the wireless technologies to be deployed to enable the Smart Home.

The power company Vattenfall offers its customers a new smart home solution based on Deutsche Telekom’s QIVICON home automation platform. The software was developed by the smart home specialist GreenPocket. The Cologne-based start-up is thereby the first company to produce multiple software solutions for the QIVICON platform.

Munich, Germany – Using the ZON™ M3 (MAX71315) single-phase electricity meter SoC (system on a chip) from Maxim Integrated Products Inc., engineers now have a highly accurate, low-cost design system for e-meters and solid-state meters.

Hampshire, UK, April 15, 2014 – A new report from Juniper Research forecasts that the installed base of connected appliances in smart homes will pass the 10 million mark by 2017, rising from four million in 2013.

IoT Asia, Singapore; Redwood City, USA; and Zaragoza, Spain. April 22, 2014 — At the Internet of Things conference and exhibition in Singapore Libelium has launched a Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) module that connects Waspmote sensor nodes to smartphones, tablets, and other BLE-compatible iOS and Android devices. The Waspmote sensor nodes can connect with smartphones and tablets for remote

Stockholm, Sweden, March 26, 2014 – Maingate and Norwegian NTE are collaborating on a pilot project to ascertain how clients relate to floating energy prices in real time.

HGI (Home Gateway Initiative) and Broadband Forum (BBF), have announced that they are to discuss recommendations for a universal template which will facilitate interworking between home devices and smart home applications.