Coffee Break With Game-changers, Presented By Sap

Buzz 1: For some, a ‘smart house’ is chock-full of gadgets that automate or monitor almost every conceivable part of a house. For others, a smart house is extreme simplicity with only the slightest of technological intrusions as necessity demands…Apple’s Home app, Google’s Nest, Google’s Home app, Airthinx air quality monitors, myQ smart garage doors, Dyson app, Wemo app, Nanoleaf, a Govee Home app. [forbes.com] Buzz 2: Managing smart home is hard. “You do need an ecosystem, fundamentally, because you can’t say, ‘Oh, here’s your brand-new house, but oh, now you’ve got 300 apps with 300 passwords and you now need to connect them all up yourself, and you’ve got to figure out how all these things attach to your wireless network.” [KB Home VP Dan Bridleman Bridleman] Buzz 3: Increasingly, what makes a home smart…is the fundamentals of what a home is supposed to provide: heat, light, shelter, power…a smart house does its job. Even when your power provider doesn’t, or can’t. Buzz 4: At CES 2020, CTA's Steve Koenig