Home security cameras keep watch over your home from both inside and outside, acting as an extra pair of eyes and ears to monitor your property. From their potential to deter criminals to other applications such as pet and baby monitors, there are advantages in adding smart home cameras.

Amazon is shutting down their Dash Wand. The company isn’t just ending support for the product, it is remotely bricking them so they can’t be used at all and asking owners to send their Wands to Amazon’s recycling program. The decision continues Amazon’s consolidation around the Echo brand for Alexa with more versatile smart speakers and smart displays instead of the more narrowly-focused Dash Wand.

We’re going to see significant innovation “at the edge” that will include increasingly low-cost and low-energy use of sensors and processors. Together, we will all benefit from today’s better, “new normal” in which we’re safer, healthier and more productive in our work and entertainment.

Apple announced updated features for its HomeKit smart home platform at its 2020 online World Wide Developer Conference. When the update comes to its iOS 14 mobile software this fall, Apple will recommend automation settings for HomeKit-compatible smart home devices and introduce deeper integrations between your smart home camera feed and your HomePod and your Apple TV.

As people age, cognitive decline can happen in subtle ways that are not always immediately obvious to family members or friends. One solution for better detecting these subtle changes, however, could already be in the homes of many people, in the form of a smart home device.

Similar to the way the smartphone disrupted how consumers interact with the online world – with everything from buying a new pair of shoes to setting up a new bank account now contained within our phone screens – IoT will have a similar effect on the interaction with objects. It’s developers who will be the key to unlocking this door.