Category: Smart Homes

• Be Part of a Smarter and More Resilient Grid Intel Energy Collective Optimization Software builds the bridge between smart homes and the new electric grid Disruption creates opportunity. That’s what we’re seeing in the electric utility industry, where a combination of large market forces — notably deregulation and growth in cleaner and more flexible solutions — is transforming the traditional, utility-controlled grid and shifting focus to the consumer-controlled edge....
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• Smart Speakers with Screens Are Next Evolution of Smart Homes   Amazon’s Next-Gen Echo Show Adds More Intelligence to the Smart Home The evolution of smart home technologies—particularly from smart speakers to smart speakers with screens—is in hyperdrive. In 2015, Amazon introduced the Amazon* Echo smart speaker, the bestselling voice-first personal assistant that has already transformed millions of homes. Today, one in six Americans owns a smart speaker, up 128%...
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• Three Ways to Set the Stage for Incredible Connected Experiences in the Smart Home   In the connected home market, technology companies and service providers know that complacency leads to obsolescence. For consumers to put out the welcome mat for new products and services, they’re looking for something that not only meets their needs today, but also sets the stage for what’s to come. By 2020, the average home will have more than 35...
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• ASUS Blue Cave: Why a Router Needs Both Brains and Beauty At home, my family has designated me their de facto IT help desk. One of my biggest pain points? Slow Wi-Fi. Between my sons’ YouTube streaming, my wife’s Web browsing and my online meetings, we can put a lot of strain on our local network and router. That’s why I was eager to talk to Gary Key, Sr. Technical Marketing...
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• Five Brilliant Innovations from CES for the Smart and Connected Home At CES 2018, the smart home is leveling up. It’s no longer enough to simply connect more devices. Those connections must be fast, reliable and secure. Personal assistants are growing in popularity, bringing more intelligence to the home and adding more advanced capabilities, as proven by the broad range of innovative new devices coming to the marketplace with voice control....
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• Intel’s Vision for the Future of Smart Video What is sight without the power to understand what’s being seen? As the Internet of Things  (loT) revolution continues, smart video technology keeps creating huge amounts of data. But even as these video technologies become more prevalent in cities, industrial facilities, retail stores, and even private homes, it's still a major challenge to store and analyze that data. Intel answers...
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• Amazon Echo Show Ushers in Smart Home Transformation We are closer to having autonomous homes, with advances in video, compute, and data processing capabilities being added to consumer products. This week marks the general availability of the Amazon Echo Show, which is notable not only for its popularity but also for delivering advanced sensing capabilities to a smart speaker. With a touchscreen, video capabilities, and a host of voice-enabled...
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• Home Connectivity Reimagined The need to be “connected” at all times and have a “smarter” home is putting a huge stress on our home networks. Think about the typical house today, which has 10 or more connected devices such as tablets, laptops, smartphones, gaming systems, appliances and so on. Forecasts expect this number to grow over the next few years with 35 to...
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• The Future Is Symmetrical with Full Duplex DOCSIS This past weekend, while I was attending one of the world’s biggest auto racing events in my hometown of Indianapolis, I couldn’t help but think about the similarities between the race and what I do at Intel. When cars are flying around the track, speed and reliability are absolutely critical. But what sets the winning drivers and teams apart is...
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• Laying the Foundation Today for Tomorrow’s 5G Smart and Connected Home There is a lot of buzz this week about 5G and how it will improve the way we live, work and play. One of the first areas where we will see the significant impact of 5G is in fixed wireless access to the home. 5G smart and connected homes of the future will offer multi-gigabit broadband, broader in-home coverage and...
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