The Smart World Series With SiliconANGLE

This week’s Smart World Series highlights the latest innovations in health monitoring, a new way for you to talk to your smart home, Asia’s influence in global smart city adoption trends, and new developer tools for analyzing and streamlining Internet of Things apps.

For those who missed last week’s Smart World Series, here’s a chance to catch up on the exciting developments in the connected world.  Each week, SiliconANGLE rounds up the top news trends regarding smart homes and cars, smart data centers and IT, smart infrastructure and all things related to the Internet of Things.

Smart toilets may soon detect diabetes

There are a number of available connected and wearable devices today to help us monitor fitness and health levels, from smartphones to smartwatches. But Michael Snyder, director of the Stanford Center for Genomics and Personalized Medicine, believes health monitoring in the future can be as easy as using the toilet. Snyder believes everyday objects like toilets can be outfitted with health-monitoring sensors to provide more data to consumers and their healthcare providers.

In other Smart Health news, Philip Morris International Inc. will soon introduce the Marlboro HeatStick, a connected e-cigarette for automated orders and monitoring options to help smokers keep tabs on their habits.

Finally, a new thermometer makes it easy to monitor temperature changes over time. The Swaive Thermometer fits into the ear and also integrates with Apple Inc.’ Health app via Bluetooth, with alert options for healthcare providers and caretakers.

Find out more about these new devices and possible health innovation in out Smart Health roundup.

Siri for your smart home: Speak and it shall be

Delivering the ease of voice-commands to the smart home, United Computer Intelligence Corporation launched Ubi, a device that allows people to talk to their homes. The plug-in device connects to your home WiFi and currently integrates with SmartThings and WeMo devices.

Meanwhile, if you’re worried about home security and think that current smart locks in the market aren’t for you, you might want to consider Haven, a door stop smart lock that blocks intruders. And if you have some spare smartphones lying around house, upcycle them for home security and more, with the Rico hub.

Find out more about these smart devices in our Smart Living roundup.

How Asia will drive Smart City adoption

Two studies have predicted that within the next five to ten years, the Asian region will be one of the biggest drivers in smart city adoption. MarketsandMarkets Inc. predicts that the smart office market will reach $43.31 billion by 2020. The Asia Pacific region is experiencing the biggest growth in terms of  compound annual growth rate (CAG), while Northeast Group LLC expects that Southeast Asian countries will invest $13.6 billion for smart city infrastructure between 2014 and 2024. China is getting a head start with Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. entering an agreement with Royal Philips to greatly improve the IT infrastructure in the country.

Find out more about these studies and partnership in our Smart City roundup.

New IoT tools for app analytics and streamlining

Internet of Things (IoT) developers now have more avenues and tools to help them create apps for the connected world, as IBM launched a new service called IBM Internet of Things Foundation. The initiative enables companies to easily and quickly built IoT apps in a just a few minutes.

Another platform to help IoT developers emerges from the partnership between PubNub Inc. and Electric Imp Inc. The two have teamed up to allow developers to quickly deploy IoT solutions.

Lastly, if you’re a developer seeking insight to that app you created, AGT International GmbH has launched IoTA, a cloud-based IoT analytics platform which also boosts data management and visualization capabilities.

Find out more about these IoT platforms in our Smart DevOps roundup.

Tune in next week for more interesting stories, discoveries and innovations in the world of smart and connected things.

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