Panasonic helps with Matter certification
Japanese technology company Panasonic wants to help companies navigate the route to Matter compliance. At this month’s Embedded World show in Nuremberg, Chetan Joshi, lead product manager at Panasonic, [...]
Johnson Controls adds security monitoring to OpenBlue
Johnson Controls has combined its OpenBlue digital platform with monitoring centre experience to ensure security systems and devices are operational, compliant and cyber secure. The smart sustainable buildings company [...]
Resideo acquires Snap One for $1.4bn
Arizona home technology firm Resideo Technologies has acquired North Carolina-based Snap One, a provider of smart-living products, services and software to professional integrators, for $1.4bn. On closure, Snap One [...]
US households opt for multiple smart home devices
Nearly one in five US households has six or more smart home devices, according to Parks Associates. Its Smart Home Dashboard quarterly consumer research features surveys of 8000 and [...]
Kode Labs closes $30m funding round
Detroit-based autonomous smart building start-up Kode Labs has closed a $30m series B round. Founded by brothers Edi and Etrit Demaj, along with Gentrit Gojani, in 2017, Kode’s mission [...]
Digital twin improves Liverpool University building performance
A digital twin of a building at the University of Liverpool is improving operational energy performance and assessing the impact of an implemented HVAC refurbishment. The university is the [...]
Govee adds Matter to smart floor lamps
Hong-Kong based Govee has added Matter compatibility to its smart interior lighting range with two floor lamps. The Floor Lamp 2 and Floor Lamp Pro are designed to elevate [...]
SwitchBot upgrades range to support Matter
SwitchBot has upgraded almost all its smart home products to Matter, including the company’s entire robotic vacuum collection. The upgrade means that almost all its products can now support [...]
Silicon Labs boost home SoC, MCU performance
Silicon Labs has launched a family of wireless SoCs and MCUs aimed at supporting AI-based applications on smart home devices and Matter over Thread. The xG26 family is equipped [...]
Infineon development tool for Smart Home
Infineon Technologies has launched a tool to evaluate smart sensor systems in smart home applications. XENSIV Sensor Shield for Arduino incorporates a range of Infineon sensors together with Sensirion’s [...]
Ceva edge chips with smart home IP
Ceva has launched a new family of multi-protocol wireless platform IPs designed for edge devices with support for Matter, Zigbee and Thread. Ceva-Waves Links is aimed at providing connectivity-rich [...]
Hyundai and Kia boost DAL-e Delivery Robot
Hyundai Motor and Kia have launched a new verion of the DAL-e Delivery robot. First launched in December 2022, the latest version has improved delivery performance, particularly in complex [...]
