Smart Home

Nuance Communications, Inc. has announced that its Dragon Drive connected car platform and Nuance Mix voice and natural language understanding developer platform, currently in beta, provide automakers with a set of capabilities to create intelligent and conversational voice experiences for cars that talk to ‘things’ such as consumer electronics and smart devices.

A majority of respondents worldwide (54%) indicated they might be willing to share their personal data collected from their smart home with companies in exchange for money, and 70% agree

The Internet of Things (IoT) is on a crucial cusp. It’s past being just a trend, nudging into consumer consciousness with brands like Canary and Philips’ Hue, and predicted to be worth $7tr by 2020. There are many business models, too.

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.

Matt Hatton, founder and CEO of Machina Research talks to Patrick Kuo, CEO of ThroughTek

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

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.

A new study from Juniper Research has estimated that the adoption of connected in-vehicle infotainment systems will produce revenues exceeding $600 million in 2020, representing a 10-fold increase on this year.

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.

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

The ever-expanding adoption and continued growth of innovations comprising the Internet of Things (IoT) will help lead the U.S. consumer technology industry to a record-setting $287 billion in retail revenues ($224 billion wholesale) in 2016, according to the Consumer Technology Association (CTA)™, formerly the Consumer Electronics Association (CEA)®.

Smart home technology is taking centre stage again at this year’s CES with the introduction of new smart devices, software and business partnerships. The big tech giants – Apple, Google and Samsung – have launched major initiatives in the market as have Amazon and a score of service providers and utilities.

New research shows that the ownership of smart home products increased by more than 50% over the last 12 months. For 2016, the international research firm Parks Associates expects further growth as 43% of broadband-equipped households in the US plan to purchase a smart home device. Parks predicts a similar trend for Europe and the

To understand why there is so much excitement surrounding the Internet of Things (IoT), look no further than smart home appliances.