home automation
Home 3.0: Emerging smart home solutions for connected world
The smart home industry has been growing rapidly in recent years, with the North American market leading the way. Even so, whilst this sector has seen a starburst of innovation, in a relatively short period of time, the demand for more new smart home devices and solutions is increasing.
Read moreSMK Electronics brings Milweb sensor to detect vehicle rear seat occupancy, heart rate, respiration
Las Vegas, United States – SMK Electronics Corporation, U.S.A., has announced a Milweb millimetre wave sensor technology and solution. Utilising the company’s proprietary algorithms, the Milweb wave sensor can identify objects, surfaces, up-coming terrain and even, at a close range, an individual’s heart rate and respiration. This sensor technology has applications in home automation, automotive manufacturing, healthcare and safety products.
Read moreSmart home solutions take off but who will dominate as the market matures?
Smart homes and home automation are ambiguous terms used in reference to a wide range of solutions for controlling, monitoring and automating functions in the home, writes Martin Bäckman, an IoT analyst at Berg Insight.
Read moreCovid-19 to have positive impact on the home automation market
The home automation market has developed at a rapid rate in recent years, a trend which has been partially accelerated by Covid-19 and the fact that people have been forced to spend more time in their homes due to lockdown measures. This in turn has encouraged more suppliers to enter the sector.
Read moreIoT and home automation: What does the future hold?
Once a dream, home automation using iot is slowly but steadily becoming a part of daily lives around the world. In fact, it is believed that the global market for smart home automation will reach $40 billion by 2020.
Read moreUK home automation market grew 14% in 2018
Still considered to be in the early, high development growth stage, the UK home automation market has doubled in size between 2014 and 2018 according to a report recently published by AMA Research.
Read moreSmart Home Summit
Event date: November 1 – 2, 2016 Crowne Plaza, Palo Alto The creators of the Jetsons should have been paid for a lot more than just cartooning. Hanna-Barbera’s pre-apollo era sitcom imagined a future that looks alot like our gadget-filled present.Although we don’t have flying cars or self-propelling space suits, technologies today are making our home
Read moreWhat will Sabio spend its €35m warchest on? CEO Roberts talks to IoT Now
Customer contact specialist Sabio recently secured a multi-million pound investment from UK-based growth investor, Lyceum Capital. The company now plans to grow through acquisitions for which it has raised £30 million ($39.40 million or €34.9 million) of available funding.
Read moreDeploy G.fast right or miss opportunity to bring CES technologies to the masses, says Broadband Forum
CES, Las Vegas, January 6, 2016 – Operators need to get G.fast right if they want to take advantage of the huge opportunity to enable and deliver up-and-coming technologies to consumers.
Read moreETSI expects to lead the field in the M2M market as it publishes the first spec for Ultra Low Energy DECT
Sophia Antipolis, France – ETSI (European Telecommunications Standards Institute) has published the first Technical Specification (TS 102 939-1) on DECT ULE (Ultra Low Energy), a low power consumption radio technology intended for home automation and other Machine-to-Machine (M2M) applications.
Read moreSmart Home Workshop
Event date: 11th September 2012 Heidelberg, Germany HGI, which is shaping the way that services are delivered in the digital home, is hosting a Workshop for companies involved in the German and European Smart Homes industry on 11 September in Heidelberg, Germany.
Read moreVerizon to expand into mHealth, cars and home automation as it buys Hughes Telematics for US$612m
New York and Atlanta, USA. June 1, 2012 – Verizon Communications Inc. and Hughes Telematics, Inc. today announced a definitive merger agreement under which Verizon will acquire Hughes Telematics, Inc. (HTI) for $12.00 per share in cash, or a total of $612 million. The transaction will expand Verizon’s capabilities in the automotive and fleet telematics
Read moreTelefónica and Avea agree to co-operate globally in M2M business
Madrid, Spain & Istanbul, Turkey. April 11, 2012 – Telefónica, through its Telefónica Digital unit, and the Turkish mobile operator Avea, part of Turk Telekom group, have agreed jointly to develop business opportunities in M2M.
Read moreHome automation range set to reach mass market
The JSJS range of home automation products will be available from shops such as B&Q following a licensing agreement with Electrium, the UK consumer electronics division of Siemens.
Read moreZigbee Pro module enables smart energy and home automation
RF Monolithics introduced the ZPM3570 2.4GHz Zigbee Pro module at this week’s Embedded Systems Conference 2011 in Silicon Valley.
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