Smart home connectivity: 3 steps to overcome major obstacles

Connected appliances, or sometimes referred to as ‘white goods’, have quickly grown to become the fourth largest category of smart devices, and they’re expected to dominate the smart home market

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Amazon, Apple, Google, and Zigbee Alliance form smart home device connectivity standard working group

Amazon, Apple, Google, and the Zigbee Alliance, have created a new working group to develop and promote a new, royalty-free connectivity standard to increase compatibility among smart home products. Security

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Smart security: How to protect your smart home devices from hackers

The Global Smart Home Devices Market was valued at US$14.55 billion (€13.2 billion) in 2018 and is expected to reach $40.23 billion (€36.5 billion) by 2023, according to the 2019 Smart

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SmartThings joins Revenue Edge offering CSPs to deliver a smart home experience

Calix, Inc. has announced that SmartThings, the global provider of smart home automation, will join the Revenue EDGE ecosystem.

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Telit adds new cellular Low Power Wide Area modules to portfolio

Telit, a global enabler of the Internet of Things (IoT), announced two new Narrow Band-IoT modules to the Telit portfolio, the NE310H2-W1 and NL865H2-W1. With a global set of bands

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Alibaba expects security, performance and compatibility will drive growth of Bluetooth mesh for smart home ecosystem

Ru Yi, general manager of Alibaba A.I. Labs Smart Device Department, talks to Jeremy Cowan, editorial director & publisher of IoT Now about the future of smart homes.

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Firedome completes US$10mn Series A funding to expand real-time endpoint security to new IoT device verticals

Firedome, providers of an endpoint cybersecurity solution designed to allow IoT device manufacturers to proactively prevent, detect, and respond in real-time to vulnerabilities in connected devices, has announced the closing

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Smart home devices need secure, compliant, easy-to-use cellular connectivity

Ajay Joseph is the chief technology officer of iBASIS, the provider of communications solutions that enable digital players worldwide with global access for their things. The company today serves more

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The future is connected and it’s on us to secure it

The Internet of Things is celebrating a milestone birthday this year, says Charles Eagan, CTO at BlackBerry. Back in 1999, British technologist Kevin Ashton coined the term Internet of Things

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IoT and analytics – An unlikely love story

By now, everyone’s heard of the IoT, or the Internet of Things, whether through fear-mongering articles on the internet about how toasters are going to spy on you or through

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Why device security is up to the user

More devices mean more susceptible connections from server to receiver. While that might be a cynical view, it is a factual one. Smart doorbells with face recognition, pet tech with

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Increasing penetration of IoT-based devices boosts popularity of location-based ambient intelligence, says TMR

According to a new market report the global location-based ambient intelligence market is projected to reach a value of approximately US$497 billion by 2027. According to Transparency Market Research, the market is projected

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As the IoT wave surges cybersecurity is essential to stay afloat

On a near-daily basis, the world in 2019 can remind you of the line Jeff Goldblum’s character Dr. Grant had in Jurassic Park. “Your scientists were so preoccupied with whether

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Securing consumer IoT devices: Why a global standard is needed

For consumers, the growth of the Internet of Things (IoT) means more and more objects in their home are now linked to the internet, and are potentially at risk of

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Will whole-home systems dominate point solutions as the market matures?

From smart lights and home security systems to connected toasters. Smart homes and home automation are ambiguous terms used in reference to a wide range of solutions for controlling, monitoring

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Growing adoption of IoT devices is the largest cyber security risk

Crimes of opportunity depend on vulnerabilities. Fast advances in technology and the Internet of Things (IoT) create vulnerabilities. You would be forgiven if you thought you were powerless to protect yourself against

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