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From Idea to Reality: The Journey of Developing a Smart Home App

Tech News Gather

Smart home automation is the process of automating your house by using Internet of Things (IoT) devices to manage your lights, appliances, HVAC, entertainment, security cameras, and alarms, and other sensors for things like water or gas leaks. This action may prevent hackers from gaining access to the network and taking it over.

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A 5G future

O'Reilly

Back in the 1980s, Nicholas Negroponte said everything wired will become wireless, and everything wireless will become wired. Can 5G replace wired broadband, allowing one wireless service for home and mobile connectivity? I’d gladly give up my 50 Mbps wired connection for gigabit wireless. I don’t, do you?

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The Future in Visual Computing: Research Challenges

ACM Sigarch

For many IoT applications involving wireless video sensors (e.g. surveillance, ADAS), the video data captured at the sensor is compressed and transmitted to the cloud for visual analytics. Visual computing, in particular, has use cases where large amounts of data can originate from the endpoint and flow towards the cloud (e.g.