Apollo Automation's new hardware removes the technical barrier to local control, challenging the $600 annual cost of cloud-dependent ecosystems.

My Alexa smart speakers were meant to usher in a future where I controlled everything in my smart home with my voice. Instead, they turned out to be a closed system with limited capabilities and some ...

For years, smart home systems such as Amazon Alexa and Google Home have been free to use. If you bought an Amazon Echo smart speaker, for example, you could use it to control your smart home without ...

The "Matter Service API" is the first-ever standardized solution that gives the service provider a complete view of all Matter-powered devices on a smart home network regardless of the manufacturer.