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IoT
2,344 words 11 min read
The global installed base of connected home medical monitoring devices is projected to grow from 92.7 million in 2025 to nearly 160 million by 2030, according to Berg Insight. This represents a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 11.5%…
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IoT
1,033 words 5 min read
The Matter smart home standard now supports more than 1,200 certified devices across 15 categories, up from roughly 130 products at its 2022 launch, according to the Connectivity Standards Alliance. The milestone arrives as IoT Analytics…
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1,295 words 6 min read
The IoT Global Awards 2026 were announced on 7 October 2026, marking a pivotal moment for the Internet of Things ecosystem. Eight winners were honored across eight categories, highlighting a shift toward sovereign AI infrastructure…
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IoT
1,283 words 6 min read
Your refrigerator is now a certified IoT device, and it’s not alone. In October 2023 the Connectivity Standards Alliance released Matter 1.2, adding nine new device types to the open smart-home protocol. Refrigerators, dishwashers, laundry…
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IoT
1,678 words 8 min read
Researchers at Anthropic's Frontier Red Team have demonstrated that small AI models are months away from being capable of autonomous replication across commercial internet-of-things devices, without needing access to data-center GPUs. The…
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IoT
1,268 words 6 min read
The Connectivity Standards Alliance announced Matter 1.6 and Product Security 1.1 on Tuesday, opening the second day of its annual Unify event with a set of changes aimed squarely at the part of the smart home nobody enjoys, which is…
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IoT
1,985 words 10 min read
The smart meter sitting on a house wall is expected to last fifteen to twenty years, but the cellular networks that carry its data may change three or four times during that same lifetime. Operators consolidate, coverage shifts…
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IoT
1,433 words 7 min read
The Connectivity Standards Alliance quietly made Thread 1.4 a certification requirement for all new border routers starting January 1. That deadline passed without fanfare, but it marks the moment the Matter protocol stopped being a…
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IoT
1,366 words 7 min read
SAN JOSE, CA, Oct 20, 2026 – Synaptics Incorporated (Nasdaq: SYNA) today introduced the xMCU, a new class of microcontrollers that runs multimodal Edge AI, with the launch of the Synaptics Astra® SR200 Series. This marks the first time a…
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IoT
1,095 words 5 min read
The EU's Cyber Resilience Act took effect in January 2026, marking the first major enforcement of mandatory cybersecurity standards for internet-connected devices. Manufacturers now face concrete requirements for vulnerability reporting…
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IoT
1,195 words 6 min read
Cellular monopole towers like this one are the physical backbone of the massive IoT connectivity estate that two major acquisitions announced on October 19, 2026, aim to consolidate. October 19, 2026 marked an unusual day in the IoT world…
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IoT
1,617 words 8 min read
The Matter logo has been on boxes in Jakarta electronics stores since 2023, but the smart home is still a mess of apps, bridges, and half-working hubs. It is not that people dont want one standard; it is that one standard cant fix a decade…