Thread and its adoption by tech giants into their smart devices. Amazon’s crowdsourcing concept: Let the consumers decide what they want! And… How does the rollout of 5G impact the growth of smart homes? Check out these stories and more in this week’s top smart home news for March 8, 2021.
Off-the-shelf smart home devices such as robotic vacuum cleaners and smart lights can support the wellbeing and independence of our aging population. Opportunities to learn digital living skills, as well as affordable and reliable internet services; and smart home devices need to be designed and installed to support older people’s independence, mobility, and memory.
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Technically, Nest was working on Thread as far back as 2011 to have a standard protocol for its own line of devices. And here we are in 2021 where the number of Thread devices available for the smart home is much lower than those available with Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, Zigbee or Z-Wave. So why bring this up at all?
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If your home is connected, it needs to be protected. IoT devices are the core technology behind the idea of smart homes, and while the latest devices have addressed patches that made their predecessors vulnerable to security breaches, the onus is still on the end user to ensure that their IoT security is up to date.
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Amazon is turning to the wisdom of crowds to determine which voice-enabled smart devices are worth producing. The ecommerce giant recently rolled out a Kickstarter-like program through which customers can submit preorders for any of a handful of gadget prototypes, with the expectation that Amazon will only make the device if it hits a certain sales quota.
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