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The basic limitation of Bluetooth Low Energy is a lack of popularity in home automation systems.
Bluetooth Low Energy has the two great features: minimal energy consumption and it is supported in almost every smartphone. Indoor positioning systems based on BLE could generate signals for months or even years autonomously, is extremely easy to use and it is cost effective. These features attract attention to indoor navigation based on Bluetooth Smart.… Read More »
The idea of a smart home is cool, of course. But which smart devices for your home are a really good investment of your money?
The two main standards currently are Apple’s iBeacon and Google’s Eddystone. Also there are some alternatives like URIBeacon and ALTBeacon but it does not seem that these alternatives are particularly popular now.
One of the most common ways to make an application that reacts to natural language is to use Amazon’s NLU service Alexa. Alexa is a well known and widely used platform that analyzes a natural language, recognizes commands and passes them to an application.