How your smartphone could give you a smart home, no extra smarts required | VentureBeat
Home automation still seems a little Tomorrowland, but Ube thinks it can make some parts of that dream a reality, even for the Homer Simpsons among us.
Ube is a startup focusing on bringing the Internet of things to life inside the connected home, starting with an iPhone app and three hardware products: Smart Dimmer, Smart Outlet, and Smart Plug.
“We have been working in the connected home space and consumer electronics space for over 25 years waiting for technology to become available which could simply and inexpensively solve this problem,” said Ube co-founder Glen Burchers in an email conversation with VentureBeat.
Ube, he says, can bring a centralized, cloud-based brain and central control system to all your home’s web-connected electronics. All you need is a smartphone, “no professional custom installation required.” Better still, it’s free.
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How To Connect 50 Billion Devices to the Internet - Tech Europe - WSJ
The concept of machine-to-machine communication, the “Internet of things”, has been around for a long time. As a post on the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) Insights blog says:
Look around you for a second and count the number of electronic devices, machines and gadgets. All of them—light bulbs, cars, TVs, digital cameras, refrigerators, stereos, cranes, beds—will be connected to the Internet over the next 15 years, if they aren’t already.
This is the potential of the “Internet of Things”: billions and billions of devices and their components connected to one another via the Internet. 50 billion devices by 2020, according to companies like Ericsson. The Internet of Things will radically alter our world through “smart” connectivity, save time and resources, and provide opportunities for innovation and economic growth.
The blog post is to promote a new report from the OECD which can be downloaded as a 45-page PDF document. Aimed at legislators, the paper describes some of the challenges that have to be faced in order to create networks capable of securely handling billions of devices.
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