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The Blockchain Home Surveillance Camera #CES2020
At CES2020, IoTex built on its CES2019 debut with a home surveillance camera produced in partnership with Tenvis. IoTex’s open-source blockchain technology secures the privacy of the end-user so that Tenvis or IoTex can’t see their customers’ personal information and video streams. The camera specifications are especially impressive for a $49 device. According to this…
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Home Surveillance & More via Radio Frequency Signatures #CES2017
A pair of devices that uses existing WiFi to detect movement in a house with no need for cameras is what Cognitive Systems promises with its Aura sensors. These sensors detect disturbances in the radio frequency signals emitted by home WiFi routers to determine motion, which makes it ideal for home surveillance, as well as…
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From Connected Smart City to Smart Region
The promise of remote sensors, always-on connections and artificial intelligence-powered decision-making promises to create what might be called the smart city on the hill. Getting to that utopia will not be easy, as city policy makers must address many questions on things such as business models, standards, technology obsolescence and citizen privacy. The biggest challenge may be what…
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Detecting Break-Ins Before They Happen
It’s a given that a connected alarm system can be set up to notify a homeowner when an intruder has broken a window or pried open a door. That’s great, but the window is still broken. Myfox, a European company, which made its U.S. debut at CES 2015 has a better idea; sound an alarm…
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A 360 Degree View From One Sensor
A cyclops with a 360 degree view is what VSN Mobil’s V.360 could be called. This relatively low-priced ($449 for the V.360 HD kit) camcorder uses a conical lens to capture 360 degrees of fun on a single sensor that has up to 6480 x 1080 resolution. The V.360 is more than a camcorder, however, as it snaps photos, does…
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A New Use for an Old iPhone
What to do with the some 50 million iPhones that were replaced last year; put them in a drawer, junk them, resell them? People Power provides an interesting approach to reusing these functionally good devices through its recently released People Power Presence. The above video overview with People Power’s CTO and co-founder, David Moss, explains their app…