Google Assistant is meant to be a singular place to go to control your house, whether through Google Home, your phone, or your TV in the future. With that being said, the software needs to have a broad range of support for the many products in your home, and provide intercompatibility between all of them. […]
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Last week I attended the IEEE Sensor Applications Symposium at Rowan University, an academic conference all about the Internet of Things and sensors. There were presentations on many topics relating to smart sensors, sensor hubs, and different ways to process the data that you collect from these devices. One of the special sessions at the end […]
Nest Platform moving to Google, sign of more IoT?
When Google rebranded and restructured their organization, Google became their own company with along with many assets that Google controlled under the new parent company, Alphabet. One of these companies that was taken out from under Google’s control was Nest. Nest has had their share of issues along the way. Recently Nest made the move to be […]
Logitech Harmony Arrives to Play Store
Logitech has a smart home system called Harmony which allows users to connect to many different types of IoT (Internet of Thing) devices with a Harmony remote and a central Harmony hub. It’s easy for you to control the lights, lock the door, close the blinds, and turn down the thermostat with just a couple […]
The Internet of Things is one of the hottest buzzwords in technology right now. It stems from a simple idea: what if everything was connected to the Internet and could interact with each other? Your curtains rise in the morning and your coffee maker starts brewing. Your curtains close, lights turn off, thermostat drops the […]
Google’s Ubiquity Dev Summit for IoT Opens Registration
Computers are all around us, and they’re continuing to become more prevalent. This has introduced the terms Internet of Things and the ubiquitous computing. Basically, things that once were isolated, like a television, are now connected to the Internet. What does this mean in terms of user experience, and more importantly, what does this mean […]