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Connected Devices and IoT

Matter Smart Home Standard Allows Smart Home Devices to Work Together

Competing smart home standards complicate how we interact with our appliances, thermostats, home assistants and other connected devices at home, but one such standard — Matter — works to ensure device interoperability across brands and platforms. Read this informative post to learn more.
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How Neural Networks Enable The Use of Voice Assistants in Low-Power Applications

Voice assistants make our lives easier and streamline our relationship with technology. Much of that evolution can be credited to the developments in neural network software and new hardware that allow the use of voice technologies in low-power applications.
Howdy Pierce
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Connected Devices and IoT

Where There Is No Vision…

I was disappointed in CES this year. Aside from minor tweaks, virtually everything on display in 2018 was also on display in 2017. Although I did see the world’s first “mixed reality dimensional guidance device,” I’m not sure what it is, but with that name I want it! Evidently, I’m not the only one whose... View Article
Competing smart home standards complicate how we interact with our appliances, thermostats, home assistants and other connected devices at home, but one such standard — Matter — works to ensure device interoperability across brands and platforms. Read this informative post to learn more.
Voice assistants make our lives easier and streamline our relationship with technology. Much of that evolution can be credited to the developments in neural network software and new hardware that allow the use of voice technologies in low-power applications.
I was disappointed in CES this year. Aside from minor tweaks, virtually everything on display in 2018 was also on display in 2017. Although I did see the world’s first “mixed reality dimensional guidance device,” I’m not sure what it is, but with that name I want it! Evidently, I’m not the only one whose... View Article
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AWS

Amazon Web Services re:Invent 2017

Amazon Web Services’ re:Invent is a massive and fast-growing event. Estimates for this year’s attendance range between 40,000 and 50,000 people, and it was sold out nearly two weeks before the first day. This year there are over 1000 breakout sessions covering a dozen or more tracks, as well as workshops, certification classes, hands-on labs,... View Article
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Connected Devices and IoT

Google I/O Rundown

Here’s a quick rundown from a tech perspective of what Google announced last week at its I/O conference: Google.ai Google bases most of its service model on artificial intelligence (AI). In this year’s I/O, they announced some really cool new data-center clusters called Tensor Processing Units (TPUs): huge, heavy-duty number-crunching machines that each provide up... View Article
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Connected Devices and IoT

Amazon Releases New Alexa SSML Tags

One small step for man, one giant leap for robot-kind? Well, sort of. After years, we are starting to see AI technology become more enjoyable to interact with. Amazon released five new language nuance enhancements to the Alexa API last week. The Semantic Syntax Markup Language (SSML) is what Amazon has defined for performing text-to-speech... View Article
Amazon Web Services’ re:Invent is a massive and fast-growing event. Estimates for this year’s attendance range between 40,000 and 50,000 people, and it was sold out nearly two weeks before the first day. This year there are over 1000 breakout sessions covering a dozen or more tracks, as well as workshops, certification classes, hands-on labs,... View Article
Here’s a quick rundown from a tech perspective of what Google announced last week at its I/O conference: Google.ai Google bases most of its service model on artificial intelligence (AI). In this year’s I/O, they announced some really cool new data-center clusters called Tensor Processing Units (TPUs): huge, heavy-duty number-crunching machines that each provide up... View Article
One small step for man, one giant leap for robot-kind? Well, sort of. After years, we are starting to see AI technology become more enjoyable to interact with. Amazon released five new language nuance enhancements to the Alexa API last week. The Semantic Syntax Markup Language (SSML) is what Amazon has defined for performing text-to-speech... View Article
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Connected Devices and IoT

So, You Want to Add Alexa Control to Your Thing…

Explore the future of Alexa integration for IoT devices and discover how to harness its potential with our comprehensive engineering services.
Howdy Pierce
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Connected Devices and IoT

Is Voice Control the Killer App for Residential IoT?

Like possibly everyone else who grew up watching Sesame Street, I loved Apple’s new ad featuring the Cookie Monster using Siri to help make cookies: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CCbWyYr82BM And the behind-the-scenes follow-up is possibly even funnier if you haven’t seen it. The pairing of the childlike Cookie Monster and Siri is pure genius. Great as these ads... View Article
Patrick French
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Connected Devices and IoT

Do You Believe in Magic?

“Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.” – Arthur C. Clark Working in the IoT industry and being a technology enthusiast, I am always playing with the latest IoT gadgets. While many of these devices have beautiful apps, I’m starting to feel like the IoT industry is not living up to Arthur C. Clark’s... View Article
Explore the future of Alexa integration for IoT devices and discover how to harness its potential with our comprehensive engineering services.
Like possibly everyone else who grew up watching Sesame Street, I loved Apple’s new ad featuring the Cookie Monster using Siri to help make cookies: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CCbWyYr82BM And the behind-the-scenes follow-up is possibly even funnier if you haven’t seen it. The pairing of the childlike Cookie Monster and Siri is pure genius. Great as these ads... View Article
“Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.” – Arthur C. Clark Working in the IoT industry and being a technology enthusiast, I am always playing with the latest IoT gadgets. While many of these devices have beautiful apps, I’m starting to feel like the IoT industry is not living up to Arthur C. Clark’s... View Article