Emerging ways to let consumer share in the value of their data 1) data tax, 2) data unions, 3) data clearing houses

Through their interactions with a myriad of services consumers are creating digital twins over which they have no control.

Let’s examine how consumers create data, how big tech exploits it, what’s the value, and how consumers can get their share.

"customer engagement" from a consumer perspective: has it become annoying?

Though governments and companies have taken steps to provide transparency for their use of personal data, do consumers even care?

After outlining an ambitious agenda for smart homes, let’s finally look at some of the technology advances needed to realize this agenda.

After reviewing the market state and the technology gaps, let’s imagine what it will take for smart home solutions to become mainstream

After Part I looking at the state of the smart home market, this post reviews the advanced technologies used in today’s smart homes

The smart home has been just around the corner for decades. Let's take a look at what it will take for smart homes to become reality!

While smart speakers can be useful for simple actions, their support with major household tasks is quite limited.

Network virtualization, a technology coming to market along with 5G, will revolutionize the networking business.

To harvest the value of data natural resources, pervasive problems in the upstream data collection process must be solved first.

When home automation works only 90% of the time, the remaining 10% still fail. Failing intuitively is magic!