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Bluetooth SIG plans to add new IoT capabilities

Stacey Higginbotham

The Bluetooth Special Interest Group (SIG) has a new focus on IoT, specifically on bringing connected Bluetooth shelf labels and tags to retail and other settings. Wiliot’s BLE tags harvest energy from power delivered by Energous’ transmitters. Image courtesy of Wiliot. And he’s not the only one.

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CSRHub API 3.1 Is Live

3BL Media

In parallel with releasing new features, CSRHub has strengthened its Amazon Cloud based delivery system so that users can call data on thousands of entities in under a minute. Search for matches on entities using their name (we store thousands of alternate names), their web URL, and other financial tags.

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IoT news of the week July 22, 2022

Stacey Higginbotham

Save the trees and use an e-ink luggage tag : Here’s a great idea from Alaska Airlines that I hope goes industry-wide. Instead of printing off a tag at home or at the airport for your checked luggage, you can just pick up an e-ink luggage tag. Amazon has tweaked its Alexa Connect Kit by adding Matter support.

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Podcast: What do you want in a home robot?

Stacey Higginbotham

In this week’s show we question whether or not we want Amazon’s Astro home robot after seeing a few reviews. Then we discuss smarter tags manufactured in a new Brazilian factory for Avery Denison before discussing two new options in air purifiers: one from Wyze and one containing a UV-filter from Xiaomi.

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Podcast: What the heck is an IoT hyperscaler?

Stacey Higginbotham

Amazon has also opened up its Sidewalk Network , a free LPWAN for connecting devices (it’s free because it sends your data to AWS). After extolling the potential benefits for Instacart shoppers, we then talk about smart tags and the concept of ambient IoT. You’ll be hearing that phrase a lot more often.

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Podcast: The FTC eyes Amazon’s iRobot buy

Stacey Higginbotham

The Federal Trade Commission is looking into Amazon’s decision to purchase the maker of Roomba vacuum cleaners for $1.7 The agency this week asked Amazon and iRobot for more information about the deal, so Kevin and I took a moment to explain exactly what the FTC should worry about. Enjoy the show.

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Smart home labels: What works with what?

Stacey Higginbotham

It’s the “Works with AirPlay” tag, available in visuals for displays and speakers, which you’ll find on compatible AirPlay products. So you can use these products with Amazon Alexa, Google Home, Samsung SmartThings or. Amazon also added Matter support to the 2nd generation Echo, Echo Plus, and Echo Dot devices.