Viewpoint: Mars Mission Should Inspire Insurers to Embrace Smart Home August 3, 2021 By Dave Wechsler In February, an unprecedented winter storm left millions of Texans crippled without power, burst pipes, and compromised water. Homeowners were...
State Farm Pilot Uses Sensors to Detect Wiring Defects That Can Cause Fires November 16, 2020 By Jim Sams State Farm is sending sensors that can detect hazards in electric wiring to 40,000 homeowners in California, Arizona and Texas...
Business News: HomeCare Connect, Roost, Consolidated Claims Group March 6, 2020 HomeCare Connect Rolls Out TextConnect HomeCare Connect, which provides in-home caregivers to injured workers, announced the launch of a free...
Business News: Nationwide and Notion, FileTrac and Hover, Octo and ICBC March 2, 2020 Nationwide Teams With Notion for Smart Home Monitoring Nationwide has teamed up with Notion to offer smart home monitoring products...
Business News: Phyn, Envista Forensics, GuideOne and Stategos August 22, 2019 Phyn Retailing Smart Water-Leak Detector Phyn announced the release of a water-leak detector that sends alerts to consumer’s smart phones,...
Walmart Will Put the Groceries in the Fridge While You’re Out June 7, 2019 By Matthew Boyle Walmart Inc. already sells more food than anyone else. Now it wants to put those groceries right in your fridge....
Roost Gathering Data as it Awaits Insurance Industry Transformation June 3, 2019 By Jim Sams For years, insurance industry observers have been predicting that home telematics products would transform the insurance industry by forcing carriers...
Design Flaws Create Security Vulnerabilities for ‘Smart Home’ Internet-of-Things Devices May 3, 2019 Researchers at North Carolina State University have identified design flaws in “smart home” Internet-of-Things devices that allow third parties to...