Amazon, Apple, Google, and the Zigbee Alliance joined to form a working group. To increase the compatibility among smart home devices, they plan to develop a new, royalty-free connectivity standard that also aims at increasing security.
In many companies, lot of work time goes into monitoring and managing the consumption and reordering of supplies like printer paper to run operations.
Amazon announced it is developing a Longer-range equivalent to Bluetooth and WiFi wireless protocols for use in smart devices. The „Amazon Sidewalk“, announced alongside some other hardware, underscores the firm’s growth expectations for IoT-devices and -appliances.
HERE Technologies announced a collaboration with Amazon that will see the companies integrate Amazon Alexa and HERE navigation and location services. The combination of the voice-first interactions through Alexa with the in car navigation solution makes it easy for automakers to deliver an intuitive experience for users inside and outside the car.
Amazon Web Services, Inc. announced the availability of AWS RoboMaker, a new service that makes it easy for developers to develop, test, and deploy robotics applications, as well as build intelligent robotics functions using cloud services.
Amazon’s consumer platforms Alexa, Dash Replenishment Service, and Fire TV are all destined to become part of the devices the commerce behemoth sells. The company is deploying the same strategy with all three and is using other tactics to get companies young and old aboard. The goal: being available everywhere.
Amazon has begun offering IoT delivery direct to car trunks. Designates “Amazon Key In-Car”, the service is available in 37 US cities for owners of serveral car brands.
Some things about the new store that Amazon opened in Seattle, Washington are quiet conventional – like it’s opening hours from 7AM to 9PM, Monday through Friday. On 165 square meters it offers ready-to-eat breakfast, lunch, dinner, and snack options.
Amazon just started a revolutionary service: At the price of 249 Dollars, Prime members in certain Cities in the US can have a internet connected lock installed, that allows delivery of packages when nobody is at home.
Amazon’s Echo is a home device that uses a a cloud-service to assist its owner in playing music, for home automatization and for answering all kinds of questions through it’s voice assistant “Alexa” – basically. But it could also help solve murders.
Arrow Electronics, Panasonic Industry, and STMicroelectronics introduced a low-power wireless multi-sensor edge-intelligence solution for different applications in the fields of smart factory, smart home, and smart life.
Since October 2017, Sidewalk Labs and Waterfront Toronto have been working on a shared vision for Quayside. Together they planned a more sustainable and affordable community that was supposed to profit from innovations in technology and urban design.
Now Sidewalk Labs has decided that they will no longer pursue this project. The Corona-Pandemic has brought this lighthouse project to an unexpected stop.
GlobalPlatform and RISC-V International announced that they signed a memorandum of understanding. The collaboration between the two organizations was started to help accelerate the development of open standards for the hardware design of embedded components in connected IoT-devices.
Vision Metering, LLC, a developer of IoT utility metering solutions, has incorporated Semtech’s LoRa devices and the LoRaWAN protocol into its metering infrastructure, (AMI)-based smart electric meters and meter interface units for water and gas meters.
PTC has announced the release of the Vuforia Spatial Toolbox platform. Created by the PTC Reality Lab, the powerful new open-source platform enables developers to create, innovate, and solve spatial computing problems in a whole new way.
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