Sentences with phrase «backed smart home company»

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Google is working with Nest again in an effort to supercharge the company's range of smart home products and services, backed by artificial intelligence technology.

The idea of a smart grid that can handle power flows not just from the power company to our homes, but also back from our homes to the power company has been around for years.

With consumers only just starting to hear the term «smart grid,» let alone trust utilities as they install millions of smart meters in homes nationwide, we're used to hearing stories about how consumers are pushing back against companies like PG&E; during smart meter installation, reporting higher bills thanks to the new meters, or fretting about potential security or privacy breeches.

Google's Home Mini smart speaker received an update on Friday that brings back some of the touch - based controls that the company had to disable shortly after its release back in October (via AndroidPolice).

If that wasn't obvious before, it should be now, after the search giant announced it was going to bring Nest, the smart - home product company it spun out as one of parent company Alphabet's other bets two years ago, back in house.

Back in the year 2012, Google introduced Android@Home, the public start of the company's smart home ambitions.

HomeKit is Apple's attempt to make the promises of the smart home a reality, and to do it the company appears to be making use of the same philosophy that made its App Store a force to be reckoned with back in 2008 — namely, a stringent approval process and an ever - growing ecosphere of devices.

Where a solid deadbolt or a security company like ADT or Brinks used to be enough to secure a home back in the day, the advent of smart home connectivity and a flood of relatively affordable, easy - to - use devices has made do - it - yourself home security a snap.