Yandex debuts smart devices with Alice in Uzbekistan

Uzbekistan’s local retailers have begun selling Yandex’s smart home devices and Stations with Alice. Purchasers of a smart speaker will receive a Yandex Plus subscription.

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Aqara teams up with LG Uplus to upgrade co-branded smart home security solution

New York, United States – Aqara, a provider of smart home products, has teamed up with LG Uplus (LG U+), the telecom operators in South Korea, and upgraded the co-branded smart home security solution for local users.

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Tuya debuts BornSmart campaign with UK partners Phopollo, LVWIT, Calex and Devola

Tuya Smart, a IoT development platform service provider, collaborated with four of its U.K. partners Phopollo, LVWIT, Calex and Devola for a social media campaign to promote smart home living styles in the U.K.

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Ambient Photonics breaks ground for energy harvesting technology in California

Scotts Valley, United States – Ambient Photonics break ground for its state-of-the-art, 43,000-square foot low-light solar cell manufacturing facility in Scotts Valley, California one of the low-light indoor energy harvesting technology factories in the world. The company’s recent [$48.5 million (€48.85 million)] Series A funding and accelerated factory construction timeline position Ambient to serve the high demand for

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Airtel launches Xsafe – an advanced home surveillance solution

New Delhi, India – Worried about the well-being of your older parent, a young child or even an adorable pet at home while you are away? Worry no more, as Bharti Airtel (Airtel), India’s communications solutions provider, announced the launch of Xsafe, an easy-to-operate, end-to-end home surveillance solution that includes a range of Wi-Fi based

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Milesight IoT and Actility partner up to facilitate LoRaWAN deployments

China and Paris, 21 September 2022 – Milesight, the AIoT solution provider, and Actility, the world specialist in IoT connectivity solutions, announced a partnership to facilitate the deployment of IoT use cases for indoor air quality (IAQ), smart buildings, smart offices, smart cities, smart agriculture, and many other verticals.

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Plume’s latest market report reveals major shifts in smart home usage

Palo Alto, United States – Plume, a personalised communications services provider, has released its first biannual Plume IQ smart home market report. It aims to provide comprehensive intelligence about the growth of the smart home sector, including the changing popularity, penetration and usage of connected devices and home networks.

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UEI and Hunter Douglas release the new PowerView Gen 3 Gateway and Remote Control

Scottsdale, United States – Universal Electronics Inc., the global provider in wireless universal control solutions for home entertainment and smart home devices, announced that, as part of an ongoing supply relationship with Hunter Douglas, UEI has been selected to co-develop and manufacture the recently released PowerView Gen 3 Remote and PowerView Gen 3 Gateway from

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Wemo announces new Smart Dimmer with Thread

Los Angeles, United States. 03 August, 2022 – Wemo, the home automation and IoT brand from Belkin International, announces the new Wemo Smart Dimmer with Thread, enabling users to control their lights from anywhere through the Home app, Wemo stage, or by asking Siri.

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Tuya announces matter-compatible solutions in close collaboration with Amazon Alexa

Tuya Smart, a global IoT platform service provider, announced that it is working with Amazon Alexa to implement a streamlined setup experience based on Matter, the new industry-unifying connectivity protocol.

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Senet, IotaComm align to offer advanced wireless networks for smart infrastructure sensors

Portsmouth & Allentown, United States. 20 July, 2022 – Senet, Inc., a provider of cloud-based software and services platforms that enable global connectivity and on-demand network build-outs for the Internet of Things (IoT) and Iota Communications, Inc. (“IotaComm”) a low power, wide area network (LPWAN) wireless communication and data analytics software company, announced a partnership to deliver

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How the demands of constrained IoT are reshaping the connectivity landscape

The IoT technology landscape is increasingly being defined by its ability to address large numbers of devices in increasingly inhospitable environments by virtue of slimming down the features and functionality of the offering to make it more appropriate. Last year, we at Transforma Insights published a report on what we termed the ‘Thin IoT stack’.

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Smart home solutions take off but who will dominate as the market matures?

Smart homes and home automation are ambiguous terms used in reference to a wide range of solutions for controlling, monitoring and automating functions in the home, writes Martin Bäckman, an IoT analyst at Berg Insight.

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Berg Insight says 8.6mn Europeans used connected care solutions in 2021

Gothenburg, Sweden. 1 June 2022 – Berg Insight has found in its latest research that around 8.6 million people in Europe were using connected care solutions at the end of 2021. The figure refers to users of traditional telecare, next-generation telecare and telehealth solutions in the EU27+3 countries. Until 2027, Berg Insight forecasts that the

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Smart home devices need secure, compliant, easy-to-use cellular connectivity

Ajay Joseph is the chief technology officer of iBASIS, the provider of communications solutions that enable digital players worldwide with global access for their things. The company today serves more than 1,000 customers from 18 global offices. Here, he tells George Malim how the company is supporting organisations with secure, global, cellular connections for Internet

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Will whole-home systems dominate point solutions as the market matures?

From smart lights and home security systems to connected toasters.

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