This week’s show focuses on three big deals happening in the IoT sector and a meaty enterprise IoT report. First up, we discuss ADT buying SunPro Solar for $825 million, which represents yet another deal bringing energy management to the smart home. We then talk about Level Home’s acquisition, the state of smart home deals, … Continue reading Episode 346: Three IoT acquisitions and the infrastructure bill

Episode 346: Three IoT acquisitions and the infrastructure bill

Stacey Higginbotham (formerly Sr. Editor at Fortune) and co-host Kevin Tofel discuss the latest news and analysis of the Internet of Things. Covers Consumer IoT, Industrial IoT and Enterprise IoT.  Guests include Vint Cerf, Om Malik, and people from Amazon.com, AT&T, IBM Watson and more.

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This is the final episode of The Internet of Things Podcast, and to send us off after eight years, we don’t discuss the big news of the day such as Arm’s planned IPO, a new display option from Brilliant, or new gear from Leviton. Instead we share our reasons for stepping back from the show, … Continue reading Episode 437: Goodbye and good luck

Episode 437: Goodbye and good luck

Amazon’s head of devices, David Limp, plans to retire as part of a wave of executives that have been leaving Amazon in the last year. Also, next year Alexa and the Amazon Echo will be 10 years old, which prompted us to take a look at the role Alexa and the Amazon Echo have played in the … Continue reading Episode 436: Can Alexa (and the smart home) stand on its own?

Episode 436: Can Alexa (and the smart home) stand on its own?

This week we make a big announcement about the podcast and newsletter. Get ready! Then we talk about the issues with Matter and who’s to blame. We lay out the challenges that both we and The Verge have highlighted with Thread credentialing, and talk about uneven device support. It’s a mess. Other messy topics include … Continue reading Episode 435: How Honeywell is approaching TinyML

Episode 435: How Honeywell is approaching TinyML

This week’s show kicks off with a surprising revelation from Kevin, who has decided to swap out his smart home platform. He explains his choice, which also may represent a theme of sorts, as we see more and more high-end smart home hubs hit the market. We discuss the HOOBS Pro device and the Homey … Continue reading Episode 434: So many new hubs, and a primer on LPWANs

Episode 434: So many new hubs, and a primer on LPWANs

This week we didn’t see a ton of news, yet we managed to talk about several big trends in IoT. We started with an update on Amazon’s planned acquisition of iRobot, and Amazon dropping the price by 15%. We explain why and then decided to explain in depth why we need the planned cybersecurity labeling … Continue reading Episode 433: Tracking air quality with the IoT

Episode 346: Three IoT acquisitions and the infrastructure bill

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