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Smart Energy Opportunities in the Smart Home
“The analytics, just like the network and all the technology, should just fade away into the background,” says Tom Kerber, Director, Research Energy and Home Controls of Parks Associates. Kerber was speaking to the idea that customers want smart energy features to work in the background, providing comfort and efficiency without having to be in…
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Melding Human and Machine
Interacting with computers using natural language has become the norm in the past couple of years thanks to the efforts of tech stalwarts like Apple, Amazon, Google and Microsoft. Comcast has simplified search, discovery and control with its Xfinity Remote with voice control, which allows one to interact with television via voice. The question is…
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Smart Homes Means Smarter Cars
Home used to be where we slept at night. But with the rise of the connected car with entertainment options aplenty, will the car someday become almost like a mobile extension of one’s domicile? In the above interviewed, filmed at the Internet of Things World in Santa Clara, CA, Parks Associates’ Jennifer Kent talks about…
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Virtual Content Creation and More
Can a computer be a better artist than a human? After seeing the deep learning demonstration by Facebook at Nvidia’s 2016 GPU Technology Conference, it isn’t a huge leap to think supercomputers already have 99% of us beat when it comes to artistic ability. In the above interview, Micah Blumberg, who is involved at the…
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The Internet of Baseball Bats
It was only a matter of time before the Internet of Things made its way to the baseball bat. In the above video, Blast Motion’s Donovan Prostrollo discusses the sensor and associated analytics they developed for Easton and its Power Sensor product. The Power Sensor attaches to the end of any bat and communicates via…
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Common Sense Approach to End Child Identity Theft
Customer Service Agent: “Someone, and I don’t know who, they have [an] account in your name.” Customer: “It was probably my mother.” The above excerpt is an example of a problem that David Howe, president of SubscriberWise, sees way too often in his other role as credit manager for MCTV, an Ohio-based, last-mile provider of…
