The deal will allow Philips Hue lighting portfolio to work with other connected devices and apps
Chinese ICT services provider Huawei and Philips Lighting have signed an agreement to ensure the interoperability of the Philips Hue connected lighting system for the home with Huawei’s OceanConnect...
From dumpster to smart home
AUSTIN--Jeff Wilson, CEO and founder of KASITA, moved from a modern, comfortable, 3,000 square-foot home to a 33 square-foot dumpster.
His inspiration for the drastic, unconventional change came from a UCLA study that tracked the movements of 32 middle class families throughout...
Amazon said Alexa, Echo and the Echo Dot services are available in Germany and the United Kingdom
German operator Deutsche Telekom (DT) confirmed its non-proprietary platform for connected homes Qivicom will be integrated with the Alexa app from Amazon. With this new service customers will soon...
The new smart home service, O2 Home, will be expanded to the rest of the U.K. soon
U.K. telecommunications company O2 has launched a new service dubbed ‘O2 Home’, which lets people control their heating, lighting, locks and more from their mobile phone.
The mobile operator...
SKÂ said the new artificial intelligence tool will initially offer smart home control and assistant services
SK Telecom unveiled an artificial intelligence service based on voice recognition, local press reported.
The artificial intelligence service, dubbed NUGU, will offer a wide range of services including smart home control...
Sony and Tepco could start bringing smart home services to millions of Japanese households as soon as next year.
Sony Mobile Communications and power company Tokyo Electric Power Co. Holdings (Tepco) said both companies are looking into offering joint smart home services starting next year....
Here are five smart home M2M trends that will impact growth in the smart home M2M market in APAC through 2020.
The smart home M2M market in the Asia Pacific region (APAC) is set for a fast-paced growth. Analysts firm Technavio forecasts that this market will grow...
Within the telecoms industry, views differ widely on the scale of the IoT investment opportunity
Asked at a recent conference when the Internet of Things (IoT) will make a material difference to his company’s financial performance, the CEO of one major telecoms operator replied: “Not in my...
QIVICON smart home platform reaches more than 40 partners
German company Gigaset Elements has jointed Deutsche Telekom’s QIVICON smart home platform, which will add new protocols in the coming months.
The QIVICON platform has an open architecture and is designed to integrate with multiple connected devices...
Smart home efforts target European telcos and verticals
Dutch telecom operator KPN signed a deal with Deutsche Telekom to offer smart home services in the Netherlands. The service, called KPN Smartlife, was introduced last year via customer trials and is now available to its customer...
About 90% of mobile service providers globally have already moved to 4G LTE, to support the exploding mobile data demands of today. But each month, consumer mobile broadband traffic continues to grow unbounded and the Internet of Things (IoT) means there will be more...
AT&T has a major focus on the "Internet of Things" with major investments in consumer-facing products and industrial products like its Global SIM, which has tremendous utility in verticals like container shipping. With connected vehicles considered an IoT subset, AT&T is also active in that...
Applications are key to user experience of smart home and consumer-facing "Internet of Things" products – but those apps are dogged by slow performance and in many cases, traditional home security companies are lagging when it comes to how well their smart home apps are pleasing...
