Well, at least the hair distracts from the Borg look. 🙂

I know, just joking–crazy hair none-the-less

Chris Chavez lol

It’s sad how poor connection in the home is, and how painfully slow it’s growth has been. I work in commercial and industrial building automation, and it’s staggering how little of what we do has made the jump to the home, even as the prices of devices fall. We have several existing open wired and wireless standards that can connect anything related to power, access and security, lighting, HVAC, and pretty much anything else you can imagine. We’ve been dealing with integrating “smart” devices into systems that can run huge campuses from a single seat for a decade now.

The attempts that have been made by ADT, Google, and others thus far are expensive and downright sad in comparison to what we have access to in this industry. I wonder when one of the commercial players is going to step over and push its way into this market. If they do it now, before any of the usual suspects can get a foothold, they could go a long way very quickly, because they all already have robust, scaleable systems created. All they would have to do is apply them to a smaller market.

Keep an ear out for the name Tridium. They make the frontend integration system that the company I work for has sold and used for the last 12 years. Tridium basically turned the industry I work in on its ear 15 years ago, and has been growing fast ever since. More recently, they have made a big push into wireless and system-on-a-chip smart devices that will scale very small to get into the small office, church, warehouse, and hotel markets. They wouldn’t have to go far at all to make a compelling, and completely connected home solution. I would actually be surprised if they don’t move this direction in the next year or two.

What’s with this guy’s hair anyway??!!

More than wearable tech I think we’ll enter a “liveable” tech era where everyone is more connected in cars and home, almost by default.