Episode 32: Amazon for the kitchen and Apple for the living room?
This week had so much connect home and internet of things news Kevin and I covered everything from a brand new way to turn your old smoke detectors into connected smoke detectors using a $35 battery r...
13 Nov 201544min
Episode 31: Walmart gets connected and this is what you want for Christmas
This week’s guest Rob Katcher is working with Wal-Mart to take a little of the pain out of grocery shopping with the Hiku connected fridge magnet. I chatted with Katcher to understand how he decided t...
5 Nov 201540min
Episode 30: My SmartThings hub must be haunted
Does your office need more conference rooms? Or maybe there’s wasted space where the printer and several reams of paper sit. In this week’s podcast we discuss how companies can use connected sensors i...
30 Okt 201546min
Episode 29: The smart home may one day have a debt to NASA
If you’ve ever wondered how to get started on a smart home of your own, Kevin Tofel and I share a few ways to get started, answering some questions about hubs outlets and how to think about buying con...
23 Okt 201540min
Episode 28: Warm and fuzzy drones and living with Apple’s HomeKit
Several HomeKit devices finally arrived in the house and were installed with relative ease. I had the Lutron bridge that had come out earlier this summer paired with two dimmer switches, a lamp module...
15 Okt 201536min
Episode 27: Early adopters will suffer for their love of the smart home
This week the smart home got some new capabilities with Philips Hue announcing a new HomeKit enabled bridge that also will be upgraded to support the newly announced Nest Weave protocol. Kevin Tofel a...
8 Okt 201538min
Episode 26: A skeptic’s view on the smart home and how to build services, not products
This week I invited my husband to replace Kevin Tofel (it’s only for this week, y’all) to get a viewpoint from someone who isn’t exactly enamored of the connected home. Andrew Allemann (my husband) ta...
1 Okt 201541min
What will happen with Wink and a review of Zuli’s presence-promoting smart outlets
In episode 25 companies are spending billions trying to figuring out how to use wearables to help seniors age in place so we asked Philips Digital Health solutions’ Liat Ben-Zur on the show to discuss...
24 Sep 201548min
