Stacey On Iot
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How the smart home has changed in COVID times
For the last year or so, people have been spending almost all of their time at home, sometimes surrounded by their partners and children or, in...
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IoT platform provider Tuya files to go public
Tuya, the Chinese company that provides a backend service for IoT device makers, had filed to raise $100 million through an initial public...
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Welcome to the post-COVID wearables world
This week, Amazon launched a new wearable device and service, while Fitbit tweaked its product offering to include the Sense, a device designed...
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Podcast: Philips Hue has high hopes for Project CHIP
This week’s show kicks off with the Bluetooth SIG’s effort to bring Bluetooth-based contact tracing to individuals who might not have phones,...
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IoT news of the week for August 14, 2020
Honeywell is getting the collaborative spirit: Honeywell, which recently signed a partnership with SAP to help organizations understand...
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Golioth wants to be a cloud designed for hardware nerds
What would a cloud platform designed for hardware engineers look like? That’s the question entrepreneur Jonathan Beri asked himself more than a...
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Podcast: Meet the new security standard for the smart home
This week’s show kicks off with us talking about Johnson Controls buying the remaining stake it didn’t hold in security company Qolsys and...
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Google’s ADT partnership turns the smart home into a service
Google has taken an investment stake in alarm company ADT as well as signed a deal to tie ADT’s installer network to the Google ecosystem of...
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Podcast: GE Appliances goes for the Gold in security
This week Kevin and I start the show with our thoughts on CES going digital , and then turn to subscriptions for smart products, specifically...
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How to automate a Zigbee light with SmartThings and the state of a smart lock
On our most recent IoT Podcast episode , Bob called into the voicemail hotline with a question about automating lights based on the state...
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IoT news of the week for July 24, 2020
InfluxData gets adopted by PTC : InfluxData is a popular time series database that PTC has now embedded into its ThingWorx platform,...
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Ideas to keep data from the home, in the home
Last week, I asked a lot of questions about the network of surveillance we are building with the IoT, how much of it was coming to light in the...
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What smart plugs should you buy if you want Alexa, SmartThings and IFTTT support?
Image courtesy Wemo On our most recent IoT Podcast, Tony called in with a question about WiFi smart plugs. He’s used a few such as those...
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Podcast: Does your smart house need a mouse?
This week on the show Kevin and I start with a speculative Google project dubbed the “house mouse” by researchers at Google’s ATAP group. Then...
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IoT news of the week for July 10, 2020
Protect your ports! Honeywell finds USB malware is on the rise : According to a report from Honeywell analyzing the threats appearing on USB...
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IoT news of the week for July 3, 2020
See Spot run! After 11 years in the making, Boston Dynamics has begun selling its Spot robot to anyone who has $75,000 lying around. I’ve...