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Smart power meters easily hacked…
Recently Jordan Robertson reported that serious flaws had been found in so-called “Smart” power meters which are being rolled out slowly by the utilities companies. These meters, designed to help...
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The Connected Home – Introducing the McAfee Little Red Box
This will be old news to those of you who took the time to visit McAfee Focus 2012 , but for the rest – my team took the opportunity to introduce the concept of the McAfee “Little Red Box” in the...
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CES2015 – A festival of insecure, unmanaged IOT devices..
The Internet of Things (IOT) and “smart devices” were THE big thing at CES this year – the show was flooded with novel gadgets from every manufacturer – from smart connected coffee makers, health...
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Smarthome 2015 – 80’s Computing Throwback?
With so many competing IOT hubs and ecosystems – how can the dream of the connected home, digital butler experience be realized? Can you remember personal computing in the 80’s? I was a Commodore 64...
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Why I want all my lights to be smart…
This week Theo Priestley of Forbes posted an interesting article, where he posed a couple of interesting questions: An average home in the UK can potentially run to over 15 or so light bulbs, but how...
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Smart Home or Dumb Home/Smart Cloud?
At the end of my street, tucked between some bushes and a tree in someone else’s garden, is a weathered beige box. I’d never noticed it before this week, but it’s become very important to me, because...
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CIO Review IoT Special Edition, November 2015
CIO Review and I have collaborated a few times around the smart home security and IoT space. They kindly asked me to write something for the November IoT Special Edition, published this week. You can...
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SmartHome 101 – Plumbing
Simon’s tips and tricks when you’re creating a smart home with a pencil, or hammer. Taking a moment to think about how your plumbing is going to be laid out, considering future upgrades and...
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Smarthome 102 – Electrical
Following on from my article on Plumbing your smarthome here are my top tips for electrical work when you’re designing or remodeling a home. I’ve bought surprisingly featured homes designed with...
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Elective Age Ratings, Breaking down Age-Label
This week I was introduced to the web site age-appropriate rating system Age-Label, sponsored by OMK in Germany. Proposed as a standard for self-regulation of web sites, it allows owners to insert a...
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Smarthome Survey Shows Safety Is No.1 Concern
After surveying nearly 10,000 individuals crossing every continent, it’s obvious that concerns around personal data are the most pressing issue in adoption of smart home technology – more than 90% of...
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Realtors define “smart home”– but there’s a catch.
Coldwell Banker teamed up with CNET to define what a smarthome really is – but they didn’t pay any attention to what is in my opinion the most important fact to smarthome buyers. What technology is...
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Buying or selling a smarthome? Watch out for amnesia!
With everyone, including Realtors talking about “smart homes” I’m not sure there’s anyone who’s involved in a home transaction who’s not aware that “smartness” is a compelling selling feature. So much...
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