A week and a half ago, I was the first to write about Amazon's new smart home consultations (You can read the article here https://goo.gl/eutuYl). 

That's right, Amazon is sending their own employees into consumer homes in seven west coast cities for free smart home consultations to help them figure out how to best build a smart home that fits their needs.

And since Seattle was one of the markets, I decided to have Amazon visit my home and give me a consultation.  

In this podcast, you can hear Amazon smart home consultant Corey as he visits my home and I ask him some questions.

The Smart Home Show

Mike Invites An Amazon Smart Home Consultant Into His Home

One of Mike's prediction for the smart home in 2017 was that robots would become an ever more important part of the smart home. While we aren't quite upon the era of fully independent humanoid robots, we are seeing more consumer robots in the form of vacuums, lawn mowers, drink makers and more. 

In this podcast we talk to iRobot's head VP of technology Chris Jones about the current state of consumer robotics, how he sees robots becoming an important part of the smart home, and where he sees things going over the next few years.

Let Mike know what you think at www.twitter.com/michaelwolf

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Here Come The Robots

Mike showed up at the Housewares show in Chicago this past week to discuss how the smart home will change the world of blenders, vacuum cleaners, cookware and home furnishings. Joining him was the Nathan Smith, CTO of Wink, Carley Knobloch, HGTV's smart home expert, and Chris Young, CEO of ChefSteps.

Recipe For Disruption: Housewares Meets Smart Home

I caught up by phone with Adam Justice from WWDC to talk about what we learned this week about Apple's smart home efforts. We talk about:

-Updates to HomeKit,  including software authentication, NFC pairing, new event triggers
-The overall showing of HomeKit and how this is the most important WWDC for HomeKit since it was launched in 2014
-What happened with Siri
-The HomePod: We talk about Apple's new smart speaker and how it compares to Amazon Echo
-Plus lots more!

Listen in to get caught up on all that was discussed at WWDC this week!

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WWDC 2017 Smart Home Wrapup

Back in 2014, Shaun Moore and his cofounder Nezare Chafni started selling a consumer video doorbell called Chui with facial recognition technology. They eventually realized the future of the company was not in doorbells, but in developing robust facial recognition and detection technology that could be applied to a variety of scenarios.

TrueFace.ai was born.

In the podcast, Shaun and I talk about those early days, the hyper competitive video doorbell market, the decision to pivot to becoming an enterprise facial detection technology provider and how this technology will eventually be applied to nearly any situation where personal authentication  is required.

Your Face Is Your Key

Join host Michael Wolf as he explores the smart home and home automation universe. Interviews with smart home leaders, analysis of the latest smart home news and the occasional Q&A and product review. All smart home, all the time. 