How To Get The Best From Your Smart Home

Smart homes have come a long way. What used to feel like a scattered collection of gadgets is now turning into a small ecosystem that runs quietly in the background. Lights adjust without much thought, cameras sync across apps and everyday routines feel a little smoother. As more devices enter the home, the real question […]
What Is Thread & How Does It All Connect?

Thread is emerging as one of the most meaningful connectivity layers in smart homes today, shaping how devices discover each other, stay online, self-heal, and operate efficiently. Last week we explored Matter 1.5, the device language reducing interoperability friction across ecosystems. This week follows as its natural continuation, focusing on Thread, the IPv6-first mesh protocol […]
Matter 1.5 Is Here. What It Is and Why It Matters

Matter was built to solve one of the biggest frustrations in smart home history. Devices that should work together often do not. Smart lights need one app, cameras need another, locks depend on a third, and anything involving a hub can feel like guesswork. Matter creates a single, universal standard that lets smart home devices […]
How the Mashable Readers’ Choice Awards Signal the Smart Home Industry’s Next Leap

The Mashable Readers’ Choice Awards for 2025 (based on what its tech-savvy audience uses and trusts) shine a bright light on how far the Smart Home has come and where it’s headed. By celebrating the brands that actual users vote for, Mashable offers a grounded snapshot of the Smart Home market in motion. For SMEs, […]
Automation, AI Governance, and the Human Touch: The New Multifamily Operating Model for 2026

Smart home and property technology have been evolving for years, but something different is happening inside the multifamily market heading into 2026. Operators are not just adding new tools, they are rebuilding their entire operating model around automation, AI governance, and a renter base that is more diverse than any generation before it. At the […]
Institutional Capital, Grid-Strain, and the Search for Climate-Aligned Real Estate Resilience

Buildings are turning into core participants in infrastructure and financing systems, faster than most headlines ever predicted. Institutional investors are rotating capital out of vulnerable retail REIT models, AI is straining power networks at hyperscale, and climate-finance frameworks are becoming essential for durability across global portfolios. Macroeconomic signals for 2026 point to moderate GDP growth, […]
Decarbonization in Real Estate: How Buildings Become Climate Assets

Decarbonization in real estate has finally reached a turning point. For years, buildings were framed as a problem sector, responsible for close to a third of global emissions, difficult to retrofit, and slow to change. Now, a different picture is taking shape. Smart grids, advanced building management systems and AI are beginning to show that […]
AI Is Writing the Next Chapter in PropTech & Real Estate

For years, real estate has been known for long cycles, slow adoption, and manual work that didn’t always scale. Recent economic pressure, higher interest rates, cautious investors, and the collapse of several high-profile startups didn’t help, creating a cooling period across PropTech. But during that same window, global AI investment actually exploded. What started as […]
From Digital Twins to AI Agents: How Cities Are Quietly Building Autonomous Infrastructure

Smart cities have been evolving for years, but the next wave of innovation looks very different from what came before it. Infrastructure systems that once depended on manual monitoring and slow planning cycles are now being rebuilt around predictive data, AI agents, and governance frameworks that keep everything trustworthy. From climate-aware digital twins to AI-driven […]
Protecting The Invisible Backbone: Autonomous ISR And Coastal Infrastructure Resilience

Maritime and coastal infrastructure is quietly becoming one of the most important testbeds for climate resilience and security. Undersea cables carry roughly 98 percent of global data traffic. Cyclones are intensifying as oceans warm. Coastal cities are layering in green infrastructure to absorb heat, pollution and floodwater. At the same time, new financial tools and […]