Friday, May 15, 2015

First Click: Don't confuse smart devices with a smart home

Waiting on a complete smart home solution that just works out of the box is like waiting for Godot: he’s not arriving today but surely tomorrow.

It was four years and four days ago that Google announced Android@Home with the intent of extending Android into household objects. Google’s announcement brought the promise of scale and software know-how to an obtuse industry then dominated by companies better suited to drawing up wiring and plumbing schematics than user interfaces. Although Android@Home fizzled like a cool Buzz from a tasty Wave, the announcement put the entire smart home industry on notice: the big brands are coming!

Today the aisles of Home Depot are a testament to the mass consumerfication of smart home products enabled...

Continue reading…



Source: The Verge - All Posts http://j.mp/1d2aYA8

No comments:

Post a Comment