Mellisa Tolentino
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Offices get interesting with smart boards + spaces
SiliconANGLE’s Smart City roundup not only focuses on smart solutions for roads or buildings, but also smart solutions for the workplace. With that being said, this week’s roundup features a connected and collaborative dry-erase board, the affect a smartly designed office can have on employee morale and performance, and an app that allows for employee ...
Pet owners more likely to automate the home
The smart home is hoppin’. Just ask the analysts. Several recent reports indicate the home automation market is expected to boom in the next five to ten years, starting with Business Insider Intelligence. The group reports there are currently 1.9 billion connected devices in use worldwide, and that number is expected to reach 9 billion by 2018. Mirroring ...
Wearable tech moves in on education + the office
This week’s Smart Health roundup features wearable devices that can be used for education, work training, and even gun control. Wearable tech’s potential for education and work . Wearable technology comprises devices to help people with daily tasks, such as tracking daily schedules and fitness goals, monitoring health and documenting regular activities, to name a ...
Home automation named one of the most influential IoT techs in 2014
This week’s Smart Living roundup features the most influential Internet of Things technologies, a mobile giant’s leap to connect cars, chatty smart appliances, and a condominium that offers smarter solutions. TiE’s Top 5 most influential IoT techs for 2014 The Indus Entrepreneurs (TiE) is a nonprofit trade group dedicated to fostering entrepreneurship and sponsor to ...
Smart World Weekly: Smart rings, new line of set-top boxes + more
This week’s Smart World Series features a new line of set-top boxes to make home automation more manageable, a smart ring that lets you control connected devices with the wave of a hand, the European Union (EU) Commission’s call for smart city partners, and a home automation provider’s role in delivering clean energy to China. ...
Honeywell is bigger than the smart home, selected for automated pipeline system
This week’s Smart Infrastructure roundup features Honeywell’s participation in the construction of a smart pipeline, and the latest in scalable communications infrastructure to help farmers around the world. Honeywell’s automation system chosen for smart pipeline . In order to utilize natural gas for clean energy purposes, pipelines were built from Central Asia to China. And ...
EU Commission calls for Smart City partners
This week’s Smart City features a virtual power plant to manage smart buildings, the EU Commission on the hunt for smart city partners, the AGT’s plans to lead Hamburg’s first smart city project, and a cool, smart way to light highways. Virtual power plants for smart, energy-efficient buildings . Eco-Shift Power Corp has entered into ...
Smart ring controls your environment via gestures
This week’s Smart Health roundup features a ring that hopes to revolutionize the way you interact with the connected world, a scanner that makes sense of your surroundings, and an upgraded smartwatch that gets cozier than ever with other connected gadgets. Nod . Nod Labs recently announced Nod, an advanced gesture control ring that allows ...
New set-top boxes blur the line between entertainment + home automation
This week’s Smart Living roundup features new set-top boxes for home entertainment, security and automation, an app to help diagnose car problems, and a connected car platform opens its doors for developers. LG debuts family of set-top boxes . LG recently showcased its family of new set-top boxes at The Cable Show event this month. The ...
Watch LIVE from EMC World 2014
EMC World kicks off today at The Venetian in Las Vegas, Nevada, featuring storage industry leaders, hands-on product demonstrations, hundreds of technical sessions on every nuance of IT life and more. SiliconANGLE’s premier production program, #theCUBE, will be there for it all, broadcasting live interviews and analysis from two studios at the show. You can also ...