Episode 14: Your Home’s Operating System & The Artificial Intelligence That Will Power It

Over the past few years, the public has mostly come to associate the voice activation capabilities of Amazon’s Echo and Google Home with smart speakers. But in fact these devices and others like them can be viewed as Trojan Horses being used by the world’s biggest technology companies in the war of home operating systems. From devices like the Echo and Google Home, users are now able to control their thermostats, blinds, cameras, locks, and entertainments systems. Will the company that develops the winning operating system for the smart home enjoy similar monopolistic power to that of Microsoft with desktop computing in the 1990s or to the market share Android and iOS hold in mobile devices today? In the fifth episode of a 7-part series on the future of the smart home, Andrew analyzes the race between tech giants to develop an operating system for the smart home and artificial intelligence to change the way we live. Listen for interviews with some of the foremost experts and innovators in this space, featuring Daniel Rausch of Amazon, Kit Klein of Wink, and Cliff Rosen of Whole Home Control.