All items tagged with smart home (228)
ISE 2025: The Largest Systems Integration Trade Show
October 9, 2024 by audioXpress Staff

ISE 2025: The Largest Systems Integration Trade Show

Registration is now open for Integrated Systems Europe (ISE), the world-renowned annual systems integration show that combines the commercial and residential installation sectors in one, from lighting to audio with projectors and displays in the middle. Returning to the Fira de Barcelona Gran Vía from 4-7 February, the ISE team is promising the most dynamic and engaging show yet, with a host of new initiatives and features, now expanding to Hall 8.1, accessed via the North Access point.
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STMicroelectronics and Qualcomm Enter Strategic Collaboration for Edge AI Wireless Connected Devices
October 1, 2024 by Cristina Costa

STMicroelectronics and Qualcomm Enter Strategic Collaboration for Edge AI Wireless Connected Devices

STMicroelectronics and Qualcomm Technologies International, announces a new strategic collaboration for the next generation of industrial and consumer connected solutions augmented by edge AI. The collaboration will pair STMicroelectronics' STM32 microcontroller ecosystem and Qualcomm's wireless connectivity solutions to allow simple, fast, and cost-effective designs of next-generation connected applications.
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Control4 Integrates Apple Music Streaming Service
August 29, 2024 by Joao Martins

Control4 Integrates Apple Music Streaming Service

Control4, now part of ADI, announced an integration partnership with Apple Music, adding even more streaming audio variety to enjoy throughout the home, all easily accessible and controllable via the simplicity and convenience of Control4's customizable architecture and wide range of intuitive user interfaces. With this native integration, Control4 Partners now have the ability to easily infuse Apple Music into scenes, routines and automations with the touch of a button, voice command, automatically via schedule, wake up, and more.
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Nordic Semiconductor Introduces Smaller nRF7002 Wi-Fi 6 Companion IC for Compact Designs
August 14, 2024 by Cristina Costa

Nordic Semiconductor Introduces Smaller nRF7002 Wi-Fi 6 Companion IC for Compact Designs

Nordic Semiconductor announced the launch of a Wafer-Level Chip Scale Package (WLCSP) version of its nRF7002 Wi-Fi 6 Companion IC. The new package option offers the same functionality as the nRF7002 QFN variant but with a footprint reduction of over 60 percent - making the WLCSP the ideal choice for efficient, size-constrained designs for next-generation wireless devices.
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CEDIA Expo 2024 Returns to Denver, September 5-7
August 2, 2024 by audioXpress Staff

CEDIA Expo 2024 Returns to Denver, September 5-7

CEDIA Expo, the residential technology integration trade show takes place September 5-7, 2024, at the Colorado Convention Center in Denver, CO. CEDIA Expo is the platform where residential technology integration, designers and construction professionals connect, learn and engage. The CEDIA Smart Home Technology Conference will take place from September 4 to 6. Over four days, attendees will have the opportunity to network and explore innovative products, technologies and solutions.
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Ceva Bluetooth LE and 802.15.4 IPs Bring Ultra-Low Power Wireless Connectivity to Alif Semiconductor’s Balletto Family of MCUs
July 23, 2024 by audioXpress Staff

Ceva Bluetooth LE and 802.15.4 IPs Bring Ultra-Low Power Wireless Connectivity to Alif Semiconductor’s Balletto Family of MCUs

Ceva announced that Alif Semiconductor has licensed and deployed the Ceva-Waves Bluetooth Low Energy and 802.15.4 IPs in its Balletto family of wireless microcontrollers. The Balletto family is a complete Edge AI/ML microcontroller solution for wireless audio and smart home connected products with integrated Bluetooth Low Energy 5.3 and 802.15.4 (Matter) wireless subsystem and a dedicated network co-processor, enabling connectivity and class leading machine learning performance in a single chip.
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Amazon Launches All-New Echo Spot Smart Alarm Devices
July 15, 2024 by Joao Martins

Amazon Launches All-New Echo Spot Smart Alarm Devices

Amazon announced the new Echo Spot as the latest addition to its lineup of Alexa-enabled devices. With no smart speakers announced in 2024 until now, the Amazon Echo series seems to be reduced to bedside table accessories. The new Echo Spot range is intended as an Alexa-enabled smart alarm clock, and its compact colorful display makes it easy to see the time, weather, and song titles from the nightstand. It's new, but Amazon Prime members can get it for more than 40% off.
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LG Acquires Dutch Startup Athom to Accelerate its AI-Enabled Smart-Home Ecosystem
July 9, 2024 by Joao Martins

LG Acquires Dutch Startup Athom to Accelerate its AI-Enabled Smart-Home Ecosystem

The story was out for a few days, but now it's officially confirmed that LG Electronics recently acquired an 80 percent stake in Athom, the Dutch smart home company based in Enschede, Netherlands. Known for its Homey smart home platform, the startup was struggling and lacked the scale that LG will provide. The agreement includes plans for LG to acquire the remaining 20 percent within the next three years. LG will maintain Athom as a separate operation, while expanding its own open smart home ecosystems globally.
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Teledyne LeCroy's Frontline X500e Wireless Sniffer Captures Wi-Fi 7, Bluetooth, and 802.15.4 Traffic Simultaneously
April 12, 2024 by Joao Martins

Teledyne LeCroy's Frontline X500e Wireless Sniffer Captures Wi-Fi 7, Bluetooth, and 802.15.4 Traffic Simultaneously

Teledyne LeCroy is enabling the development of the latest wireless devices and connected applications with the launch of the Frontline X500e wireless protocol analyzer with Wi-Fi 7. For any application involving Bluetooth, Wi-Fi, 802.15.4-based technologies (including Matter, Thread, and Zigbee), or wired interfaces such as HCI-UART, USB, SPI, and Audio I2S, the X500e delivers precise insights for network professionals.
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Packetcraft and Ezurio Announce Talking Sensor Dev Kit with Bluetooth Auracast
April 2, 2024 by Joao Martins

Packetcraft and Ezurio Announce Talking Sensor Dev Kit with Bluetooth Auracast

Packetcraft announced that it has teamed up with Ezurio, formerly known as Laird Connectivity, to create an innovative rapid prototyping kit that expands the realm of Auracast Broadcast Audio. The concept of a "talking sensor" - Auracast-enabled sensors that talk directly to earbuds, hearing aids, headphones and hearing protection products - expands Bluetooth applications to a host of new devices that can communicate important notifications and messages.
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