Month: January 2025

August Home, Inc. Is a California, U.S. based company which designs and manufacturers smart-locks for home.

Smart locks are the new generation IoT (Internet of Things) products that provides smart home locks devices which means you no longer need to keep your keys with you to lock/unlock your home’s door. Even you don’t need your RFID tag.

Important functions of August smart lock:

• Keyless entry to family, friends, house keeper and others without worrying about lost or copied keys.
• It is smart enough to make sure that door is closed and locked properly.
• You can access your door from anywhere in the world using any smart device that would support August lock app like iOS and Android phones.
• Automatically lock the door as you leave the house so don’t worry about whether you have locked or forgot to lock.
• Automatically unlock the door as you arrive at home so no need to find the keys in your pocket to open the door.
• You can track who is at your home using the August smart lock app.
• Also supports keypad entry to unlock the door.
• You can also see the video of person who is in-front of your door and talk to him/her.

Other important additional devices with which August works:

• August Doorbell Cam Pro (For video camera recording purposes)
• August Smart Keypad (For entry through keypad lock i.e. typing your password pin)
• August Connect (To open the door without phone or keypad)

Conclusion: August is a next generation locking system that can make your life easy and worry less. Now you don’t need to take worry of your home after you any more. You can purchase August smart lock from the link given below.

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Introduction: Fitbark Inc. is a U.S. based company that manufactures smart pet fitness tracker devices for the pets specially dogs and also for humans to keep them healthy and fit.

Fitbark is an IoT based smart device which monitors your dog’s activities like running, sitting, walking etc. It sends the activity data to the user’s mobile phone so that they can track the all day activity log of their pet.

Connectivity: Connection of Fitbark to smartphone is very easy. You just have to download the application on your iOS or android device and both the devices will get paired by a Bluetooth connection which can be Bluetooth 4.0 or BLE (Bluetooth Low Energy). If you are out of the range of Bluetooth connection which is usually 10m for most devices. Then you can access base station (Fitbark’s server) for the data collection, but you will have to purchase this feature and secondly your pet should be in the Wi-Fi range of your home’s Wi-Fi network.

Hardware:

• It’s weight is about 10g.
• It has 3 axis accelerometer which measures the speed of your dog.
• It has lithium ion-polymer battery can last upto 10 days and you can recharge it by simply connect the Fitbark device to USB charger.

Key features of Fitbark:

• Track daily activity progress to keep your dog health and fit.
• Help to track activity from anywhere without the need of your presence, near dog.
• Help to identify the energy trends (energy levels) of your dog by observing collected data over last few days, weeks, months.
• Help to identify when your dog is not feeling well by the tracked data.
• Fitbark is fully waterproof so you don’t need to bother about whether your dog is on the ground or inside the water.

Conclusion: It’s a good device for pet lovers who give priority to their pets’ health very much. It will also save your money for veterinary doctor’s consultation because you can yourself track problem before it becomes serious.

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Introduction– Nest thermostat is the 3^rd generation smart thermostat device based on IoT (Internet of Things) technology manufactured by the California, U.S. based tech company called “Nest labs”. Nest labs deals in manufacturing of smart devices for following categories.

• Heat sensing
• Smoke detection
• Security systems etc.

This smart thermostat is programmable. Also has the capability of self programming after few one or two weeks of use which depends upon the habits of the user. All this is possible because of AI (Artificial Intelligence) which makes this device to learn things automatically by collecting data from it’s environment.

Function- It has a capacitive touch screen by which you can change the settings. It can be connected to the wireless network to get the O.S. (Operating Systems) updates and make it controllable by mobile app from anywhere in the world. Nest saves around 10-15% on heating and cooling bills.

It can be connected to Alexa voice devices like Amazon echo series for voice assistance capability.

Security– Since security is one of the most important factor connected with IoT devices, Nest’s latest O.S. update has a feature of 2- factor authentication (for logging into the device, you will need your normal set password along with an OTP generated by 2 factor authenticator app on your smartphone) which makes it almost hack proof.

Conclusion- This device is perfect for those who have tight schedule or who don’t want to change the settings of the heating and cooling systems again and again. In starting, Nest can be expansive for most of the users but it can save electricity bill by automatically control the heating and cooling systems of the home.

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Bluesmart is a New York, U.S. based global company that makes IoT based smart products for travelling purposes. Bluesmart One is a smart luggage from “Bluesmart” company.

These smart luggage bags was launched in 2014. In 2017, they launched their series 2 products.

So, now you might think that what’s new in it? Many of us has lost our luggage bag with important stuff in them on airports, stations, hotels etc. atleast once in a life time. Over 25 million bags lost each year. Bluesmart One is the solution of lost baggage problems.

Here you will get following features with this bag and to avail these features you will have to install an app Bluesmart.

• Location tracking: This is most import feature of this luggage. You can actually track the location of your luggage bag with GPS technology.
• Digital lock: It will lock automatically when a user go beyond a specified distance away from the bag. This is done by using proximity sensor (to detect nearby object without touching)
• Digital scale: It has a digital scale that you can use to weigh your bag. You just have to lift your Bluesmart One luggage up in the air, and it will display the weight of your luggage on your smartphone screen. So now, you will never have overload luggage problems at the airports.
• Phone Charger: Have you ever faced the problem of phone charging at airports or stations or anywhere else? Now you would say I have a power bank for this purpose. But what if I would say that you even don’t need your power bank, if you are travelling with Bluesmart luggage. It can charge change your phone upto 6 times by using USB cable.

Overall, it’s a big step in changing the luggage in last 100 years. Definitely, it is one of the best smart luggage, available in the market. So, if you are a frequent traveller, then you can choose this product.

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Introduction: Apple Home Pod is a smart speaker by tech giant, “Apple Inc.”. Here smart speakers means that it can be voice controlled to perform different tasks like searching anything online, playing music, taking phone calls etc. using a software called “virtual assistant”, which can understand your voice commands and take actions accordingly. Apple Home Pod has “Siri” virtual assistant whereas Amazon echo uses “Alexa” and Google Home uses “Google assistant” as virtual assistant.

Release: Apple Home Pod (can also be called siri home speaker) was announced on 5^th June, 2017 and is going to launch in early 2018. Initially it will be released in Australia, U.K. and U.S. with two colors White and Space Gray.

Hardware: Apple Home Pod contain Apple A8, 64 bit ARM design based SoC (System on Chip), the same one which is used for iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 plus. Apart from A8 chip, it has seven tweeters (speakers to produce high frequency sound) and a four inch woofer (speaker to produce low frequency sound) which is designed by apple.

Features: Apple has done a lot of work on it’s acoustic design for premium user experience. It can scan your room and the adjustment with speakers to produce the best possible sound. It also has 3D mesh surrounding the speaker, which according to the apple is selected for the best sound quality.

Security: Privacy and security is the issue that is connected to almost every electronic device that connects to a network. Your precious data can be stolen by hackers and misused. So, Apple has designed it’s speaker in such a way that it uses encrypted data (coded data, in accordance with a specific algorithm). So, here you get a good security feature from Apple.

Cons: In the end, let’s talk about the cons associated with an Apple Home Pod.

• High Price: $349, not every person can pay this amount easily
• Pairing: Can only be connected with Apple device but not with android devices.

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