Episode 389: Is Matter ready for its close up?
I’m in Austin this week, for Silicon Labs’ Works With event, and while there I hosted a panel that provided a good sense of what is going to happen with the Matter smart home interoperability protocol...
15 Sep 20221h 2min
Episode 388: Insurers come for the smart home
This week launched with a bang for those interested in the role insurers might play in the smart home as State Farm agreed to make a 1.2 billion equity investment in security firm ADT. This follows on...
8 Sep 202255min
Episode 387: Is Kickstarter still relevant for smart devices?
This week we start off talking about the Federal Trade Commission suing a data broker for sharing sensitive location data. It’s a topic we’re following closely, in part because location information ca...
1 Sep 202256min
Episode 386: We question Nova Labs’ 5G deal
Nova Labs, the company behind the decentralized Helium IoT network, has acquired FreedomFi, a company trying to build a decentralized 5G network. Kevin and I share our doubts about the value of a dece...
25 Aug 20221h
Episode 385: Google Cloud kills IoT Core and hearing aids get smart
This week’s show kicks off with a whispered bang that Kevin will soon hear, thanks to the FDA approving over-the-counter hearing aids. We talk about what happened and what it means for innovation in w...
18 Aug 202254min
Episode 384: Here’s why Amazon really bought iRobot
This week’s show kicks off with our discussion of Amazon’s planned acquisition of iRobot, the maker of Roomba robotic vacuums for $1.7 billion. We then talk about a survey from Parks Associates that i...
11 Aug 20221h
Episode 383: Meet Insteon’s new CEO
Last week, we kicked off the podcast with a discussion on the Helium peer-to-peer IoT network, and this week we did the same thing. This time we dug into the disclosures that Helium didn’t actually ha...
4 Aug 20221h 2min
Episode 382: Is Helium full of hot air?
We start this week’s show with a deep dive into a popular post from this week about the Helium network. The report pointed out that Helium only made $6,500 in the month of June from data rates. We exp...
28 Juli 20221h
