The company says Smart Home OS 3 “sets a new standard” in the way it unifies hundreds of connected devices and provides smart-home control and personalization through a single platform. An updated user interface delivers intuitive one-touch control of multi-device “scenes” and individual devices — including those used for music and video streaming — and […]

Home security and home automation used to be two entirely separate worlds, with distinct household duties. Security was a wired mixture of keypads, sensors, motion detectors, fire/smoke alarms, and other devices that helped to keep you safe. Home automation was … well, not much of anything, other than a crockpot or a light that went […]

Why Hackers Target Smart Homes & 7 Tips to Protect Yours Updated: June 3, 2019 6 minute read Share: By 2020, there are expected to be 44.7 million smart households in the U.S. alone. With the exponential growth of the smart home industry comes horror stories about hacked baby monitors and surveillance cameras and ever-increasing […]

If you stop and think about the thing that you interact with most in your house, it probably isn’t a particular appliance or accessory. Instead, it’s something that you probably don’t spend a lot of time thinking about but use every single day, like your light switch. Those shouldn’t be left behind as you upgrade […]

Smart home security is a really lucrative market but it looks like Amazon is getting ahead of the curve by rolling out a bunch of advanced home security features enabled by Alexa and available on Echo devices — for free. The new platform is called Alexa Guard and it’s now available for all Echo device […]

Does it feel like Alexa is just about everywhere lately? That’s for good reason. While other voice assistants are limited primarily to smartphones or have a small number of third-party devices they are compatible with, Amazon has been branching out its voice assistant in just about every way imaginable. According to the company, Alexa now […]

About the author: Mike Adams (aka the “Health Ranger“) is a best selling author (#1 best selling science book on Amazon.com called “Food Forensics“), an environmental scientist, a patent holder for a cesium radioactive isotope elimination invention, a multiple award winner for outstanding journalism, a science news publisher and influential commentator on topics ranging from […]

What is Alexa Guard? Learn How to Enhance your ADT Smart Home with Amazon Alexa Guard through ADT, the #1 Smart Home Security Service Provider, is proud to help bring Alexa Guard to market. Configure supported Echo devices to detect specific sounds they select, such as the sound of Carbon Monoxide andSmoke Alerts or Glass […]

Last month, the Gary Sinise Foundation thanked an Army pilot veteran with a specially adapted smart home. Retired U.S. Army pilot CW5 Gary Linfoot, part of the Army’s elite 160th Special Operations Aviation Regiment (Airborne) (SOAR(A)), was injured during his service in Iraq in 2008 when a helicopter crash landing left him paralyzed from the […]

I’m legally blind, so from the moment I pop out of bed each morning, I use technology to help me go about my day. When I wake up, I ask my Google Assistant for my custom-made morning Routine which turns on my lights, reads my calendar and plays the news. I use other products as […]