Smart homes aren’t built on voice assistants alone. The real intelligence comes from the devices working behind the scenes, ...

Posts from this topic will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Ecobee’s newest video doorbell can show a live view of your front porch on your thermostat. But that’s not the ...

Smart home automation is the ultimate life hack, in my humble opinion. Whether for efficiency, accessibility, nerding out, or just plain laziness, all you need are smart home devices and a little ...

When smart home devices were first introduced, motion sensors were among the most interesting. This sensor would use differences in light to detect activity in a given space—impressive, but imprecise.

That’s just basic LEDs. With smart LEDs, you can dim them via the app. If you run a bulb at 70% brightness, it uses less ...

Sidewalk, which launched in 2020, is a low-power, low-bandwidth, long-range IoT network that is free to use. While Ring cameras use Sidewalk connectivity to send alerts even when your home’s Wi-Fi is ...

Sensors are an indispensable tool to inform utility managers of the state of the electricity grid and the occurrence of ...

When it comes to modern electronics, the word “smart” seems to apply to almost every kind of device on the market, especially building automation products such as motion sensors and consumer products ...

Unlike traditional homes, where electronic devices operate independently of each other, in a smart home, there is an infrastructure that connects all the sensors and can access the internet via ...

Most homes are full of lighting that looks good but works the same way it did decades ago. Flip a switch, light turns on.