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Steam – Smarten Up Your Water Heater

For most of us, water heaters are out of sight out of mind, until we see our energy bills. Your water heater could be using up as much as 20% of your energy bill....
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Light Up Your Smart Home with Anyware’s New Smart Adaptor

We’ve seen smart lights and adapters before, but nothing quite like this.  The Anyware Smart Adaptor™ is the world’s smartest and smallest connected lamp socket adaptor, designed to provide next generation home automation for...
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Beyond Timers: Lighting Automation That Learns

There are several home automation and security systems to choose from these days, and if you’re not careful, you might end up with a really complicated system that requires you to constantly use the...
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Why Isn’t Home Automation Tech Reaching the Masses?

For the people that have, use, and love home automation, it can seem absurd that everyone isn’t using it. Home automation tech is so relevant – security! convenience! entertainment! – and interesting, but it’s...
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The Latest on Google’s New OnHub

Less than a year ago, Google introduced their new router, called OnHub, that serves as an update to their old router which don’t support the newest wave of home automation. The OnHub is meant...

Ring and ADT Partnership Offers New Level of Smart Home Security

One of the great things about the rise of smart home technology is watching partnerships form. These partnerships are going to be the heart of what shapes the future of the smart home industry;...
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How Smart Technology Can Enhance Workplaces

We talk about smart homes all the time, but using smart technology in the home is only one application. Another important space in people’s lives that can benefit from smart home technology is the...
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Anything You Say or Do in Your Smart Home Can Be Used Against You

Many smart home products are positioned as items that help offer security for consumers. Install this camera that streams live footage to the cloud so you can access anytime. Use a digital lock so that...
The Good Kind of Smart Home Technology Hacking

The Good Kind of Smart Home Technology Hacking

  I never thought I’d say this, but there is actually a kind of hacking that I would welcome in my smart home. Not the kind of hacking where savvy tech nerds get through my...
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Is Your AI Lying to You?

I talk a lot about artificial intelligence (AI) and how we are using it more and more in our homes. We use it because it is convenient, and if saves us time. We also...