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Some smart home hubs support a wider selection of components, while others are more specialized for controlling products within certain product groups or using certain wireless technologies (e.g. Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, Z-Wave, and/or Zigbee). A smart speaker with a virtual assistant can often be used for speech input to a smart home hub.
Its range of products utilizes the Zigbee and Z-Wave communications protocol, the latter being a technology to which Aeotec owns the European rights. [3] The group acquired German electronics maker Popp & Co., [4] [5] founded in 1930, and also Z-Wave Europe, a major distributor of IOT and Smart Home products. The acquisitions moved both its ...
SmartThings Inc. is an American home automation company headquartered in Mountain View, California.Since August 2014 it is a subsidiary of Samsung Electronics. [2]Founded in 2012, it focuses on the development of eponymous automation software and an associated array of client applications and cloud platforms for smart homes and the consumer Internet of things.
Z-Wave is a wireless communications protocol used primarily for residential and commercial building automation. It is a mesh network using low-energy radio waves to communicate from device to device, [2] allowing for wireless control of smart home devices, such as smart lights, security systems, thermostats, sensors, smart door locks, and garage door openers.
Typically the application will support multiple interfaces to the outside world, such as XMPP, email, Z-Wave, and X10. The user interface of home automation software is often based on a client-server model, such as a web UI or a smartphone app, or some combination thereof.
Homey is a smart home hub manufactured by the Dutch company Athom B.V. Homey has a mobile & web app interface with an open API that allows third-party developers to add support for their products in Homey. Like other smart home hubs, the purpose of Homey is to act as a central point of configuration, control and monitoring of components in a ...