Dutch tech firm, Philips electronics has been scaling back and refocusing some of its home solutions, over recent years. The latest is its TV operations, which they own in partnership with TPV Technologies. Philips announced this week that they have sold their 30 per cent share in TP Vision to majority owner TPV Technologies, to focus on their smart lighting and connected health market.
Protect America has announced that they are now stoking Yale Real Living door locks. As a added incentive customers can integrate the Yale locks with Protect’s wireless security systems. The locks offer a number of options to secure you home: there is the traditional key or you can use a passcode to lock and unlock your doors.
The new remote control reference design platform is base on the ZigBee RF4CE standard. The solution offers a rich remote control experience that includes voice search and gesture recognition, internet-based multimedia search and discovery capabilities, support for the latest in cloud gaming and more.
The remote platform joins other Marvell smart home, set-top box and smart TV solutions such as their award-winning ARMADA 1500 series SoC (System-on-Chip).
I must say hearing that Google has bought Nest comes as no surprise to me, what surprise me is the fact that they are buying so many home related solutions and then we hear nothing after. We waited with bated breath when they buy these businesses and introduce new concepts and are left high and dry, because we see no change to the norm.
McAfee and ADT are both in the security business, one protects your digital content the other your premises. Now both have decided to work together to protect our physical and virtual worlds. With a mixture of education and security solutions both companies want to help us to add additional layer of security to support our lifestyle.
Entropic collaborated with Cryptography Research to port their CryptoFirewall security core technology into Entropic’s advanced line of multimedia set-top box (STB) system-on-a-chip (SoC) products. The new chipset will protect against protect against signal theft and content piracy which is a major issue for content creators and broadcasters.
2013 has been another exciting year for the connected home we have seen many changes and developments. I would say this year was the year for new comers (mainly start-ups), introducing solutions to the market. Service providers have done a lot to expand their services to the home thus creating new revenue streams. Overall, I think the idea of the connected home has received a lot of mixed press from the general media.
Ninja Block is a Kick Starter funded home automation start-up that makes DIY home automation a little bit easier. The solution is a free software platform that allows home automation enthusiasts to develop solutions that allow them to manage home connected devices from the web and mobiles. With it, you can create rules to manage you lighting, security and response to the home environment.
Anyone buying a new computer will go for a 64-bit desktop. For mobile, Apple iPhone and iPad latest models are all 64-bit, other mobile devices are about to go 64-bit with the new Qualcomm Snapdragon 410 64-bit mobile processor. Now, STMicroelectronics is getting ready to offer home appliance manufacture 64-bit processor for their appliances, based on the latest ARMv8-A cores, STi8K Systems-on-Chips (SoCs) architecture.
In the next 5 months, BORG Energy India plans to roll out renewable energy to about 18,000 homes in northern India as part of a $45 US million investment in India’s market for rural electrification and EPC (engineering, procurement and construction). The energy will be provided by BORG Astra Plus Home Series, a Range of fully loaded micro solar power plants, specially designed to meet the energy needs of domestic households.