Stacey On Iot
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Podcast: Wink is a bad boyfriend and what about Wi-Fi HaLow?
Wink is a bad boyfriend and what about Wi-Fi HaLow? This week’s show starts off with Wink’s new pricing plan (although it feels less like a...
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Why ARM is offering a new form of “custom” Cortex chips
ARM announced Tuesday that it will let customers customize their own chips for smartphones and machine learning jobs with the goal of achieving...
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How the IoT can help prevent the spread of COVID-19
What if the IoT provided us with advanced warning of a pandemic event and nobody was listening? That’s exactly what happened with COVID-19...
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Podcast: Wyze wants to bulk up and Microsoft Build news
The new Logitech Circle View camera works with Apple’s HomeKit Secure Video service and sells for $159. Image courtesy of Logitech. This...
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How to plan your smart home when building a new house
Image courtesy of S. Higginbotham. On our most recent IoT Podcast, we actually had two very similar questions left on our IoT voicemail...
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Let’s talk about UL’s device security rankings
This week, GE Appliances became the first appliance company to achieve UL’s gold-level certification under UL’s new IoT security framework....
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A deep dive into Helium’s hotspot and business plans
Earlier this year, I plugged in a Helium hotspot and created a node on a distributed network designed for the internet of things. Three months...
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IoT news of the week for May 15, 2020
AI could be the secret to better energy harvesting : For IoT to become truly ubiquitous we need to ditch both wires and batteries....
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Podcast: Subscription news from Wink and Nest
This week’s show is all about subscriptions! First Kevin and I share thoughts on Wink’s decision to charge a subscription fee after giving...
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How to fix Z-Wave flakiness in your smart home
Image courtesy of Amazon On our most recent IoT Podcast, Don called in to explain that the Z-Wave device furthest from his hub is...
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Review: August’s new lock with Wi-Fi is small and pricey
August Home has a fourth-generation lock on the market today and it’s a good option for renters, those too intimidated to replace an entire lock,...
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COVID-19 is killing our simple love of the IoT and that’s great
Companies in recent weeks have been surveying the economic devastation and uncertainty caused by COVID-19 and pulling their projects. On...
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Wink shows how COVID-19 is clearing out the smart home
After 20 years of business reporting, I feel like I’ve seen…not everything, but an awful lot. Then on Wednesday afternoon, Wink, the smart home...
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Podcast: How to build your own IoT device
Image of the MailPig mailbox sensor courtesy of Christine Sunu. This week on the show, Kevin and I start with a potential privacy bill in...
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How the COVID-19 pandemic is spurring IoT growth while the world’s business slows
Image courtesy of SAS As the countries around the world use social distancing or shelter-in-place strategies to mitigate the Covid-19...
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Two startups trying to bring wireless power to the IoT
I am obsessed with ridding devices of wires. That’s why I’ve been excited to report on the growth of wireless connectivity for the last two...