UK Government Looks To Smart Home Technology To Manage Energy Demand

The UK Government hopes to ensure that the energy grid can handle the growing demand, with smart home devices and battery storage systems key to its plan...

Johnson Controls Brings Cortana To Nest-Beating Smart Thermostat

Nest has yet more competition in the smart home space, as Johnson Controls has just unveiled a futuristic-looking thermostat, complete with Cortana...

Josh.ai Raises More Cash For A Smarter Smart Home Assistant

Josh.ai has just bolstered its war chest with an additional $8 million of funding to build an assistant specifically for controlling the smart home...

Google Home Goes All ‘Minority Report’ Potentially Preventing A Violent Crime

The extent to which smart devices can become involved with law enforcement agencies has been in the news quite a bit lately. First there was the case where A...

Major US Housing Developer Reveals Smart Home Packages

A major US house builder has become the latest developer to offer smart home packages to its customers...

Vogel’s Announces Acquisition Of Marmitek

Support product specialist, Vogel's, has announced its acquisition of the Dutch smart home company Marmitek BV. With this acquisition, Vogel's says it aims to p...

Eero Bolsters Smart Home Networking With Second Generation Wi-Fi System

The second generation Eero Wi-Fi System is designed specifically for the smart home, and is the first with an active Thread radio...

Essential Transforms The Smart Home With New OS, Echo Competitor

Essential is hoping to transform the smart home ecosystem with the brand new Ambient OS and Essential Home products...

Amazon Echo Reportedly Outsold Google Home Almost 3:1

The Amazon Echo is reportedly the most popular smart speaker with consumers, with almost three times as many in the marketplace than Google Home...

HomeKit Technology To Be Standard In All New Brookfield Homes

US home developer, Brookfield Residential, has made HomeKit technology a part of its development standard...