Tag Archives: connected-home

Analysis: The long-predicted connected home of the future finally felt ubiquitous at CES 2017. The good news? You may actually love it.

The veteran smart lighting maker plans to sync up with Samsung's connected home platform in 2017. You'll also be able to set your lights to come on whenever the Nest Cam detects motion.

It's hard to figure out how some connected home tech is actually useful, but GE and Nest have nailed it with their latest team-up. The Nest Protect smoke detector can now shut off GE Appliance's connected ovens if it detects smoke and then trigger th...

Mashable Google's Android Things looks to take control of the IoT landscape Mashable When asked how Android Things differs from Brillo, a Google rep stressed that the new platform is much more thorough. "Brillo was to create a much more lightweight version of Android for developers," the rep told Mashable . "When we granted early access ... and more »

California home builder KB Home wants to use Apple HomeKit's connected home controls to sell houses -- and it's unveiling the first "HomeKit-enabled community" to help make the sale.

Today's nation-wide internet outage was enabled thanks to a Mirai botnet that hacked into connected home devices, according to security intelligence company Flashpoint. The distributed denial of service attack targeted Dyn, a large domain name server...

Apple's connected home platform HomeKit got its very own app today called Home. Apple's senior VP of software engineering, Craig Federighi announced at WWDC that the new IoT application for iOS will give users quick access to all their HomeKit-suppor...

Is the town a viable blueprint for tomorrow's smart homes?