The AllSeen Alliance has unveiled a smart home standard interface for controlling and monitoring smart appliances and entertainment devices in the home, but without the participation of Google and Apple, both of which are pushing their own interface. Also absent was Samsung, which has stressed openness as a key feature of its smart home products. […]
Australian household spending on IoT to reach $300 per year per household by 2019
Research firm Telsyte is forecasting that annual Australian household spending on IoT home products and services will reach $3.2b in 2019, an eleven-fold increase from $289m in 2015, and that does not include personal IoT devices and services like Fitbits. There are about 10 million households in Australia today and the ABS estimates there will […]