The Matter protocol involves creating a more streamlined communication pathway for smart home devices. Many major players in the smart home device space are on board with Matter. With an agreed-upon ...

Explore practical smart home automation ideas and non-gimmicky routines that simplify daily life, enhance comfort, and make every smart home truly useful and efficient.

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The thing is, you don't need more hardware to create a smarter home. Even with a couple of devices, you can create something ...

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LAS VEGAS—Home automation has a public relations problem: If the non-tech obsessed public views it at all, it views it as complicated, intimidating and possibly unnecessary. And home-automation ...

The dream of an intelligent home that automatically controls the living environment and responds to individual preferences has been around since the advent of the microcontroller first suggested the ...

The kitchen is the heart of the home—and often, the heart of smart-home technology, according to Mark Benson, the head of SmartThings, a subsidiary of Samsung. “In my home, we have many lights, and ...

SANTA ANA, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Universal Electronics Inc. (UEI), (NASDAQ:UEIC) is pleased to announce that it has entered into an agreement to acquire U.S.-based Ecolink Intelligent Technology, ...

As proptech evolves, so does the ability to automate processes within the real estate industry. Automation can lead to some serious ROI for property managers and operators, but it’s important to ...

I love Back to the Future, and I was particularly enamored by the smart home of the future as seen in part two of the trilogy. All sorts of wonderful automated luxuries that we would have one day in ...