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The TV also comes with the intelligence to turn itself on or off based on a user’s presence and habits. This TV also includes a sensor package that tracks the environment and people’s presence, but it didn’t appear to have a camera. Fire TV Omni QLED Series, with Fire TV Ambient Experience Widgets. The Fire TV Cube is $139.99 and has four IR blasters to control other AV devices, can translate HD content to 4K, supports Wi-Fi 6E, and also lets people control their television and even cable subscription with their voice.Īmazon also introduced a Fire TV QLED Omni set that starts at $799.99 and ranges from 65-inches to 75 inches in size. The Echo Auto can deliver Alexa’s Hunches as previously mentioned and it can also pick up your music where you left off playing it inside the home.


Amazon’s sensor network extends to cars and TVsĪmazon also introduced a new Echo Auto for $54.99 and a few TV products. It will come with a six-month subscription to Amazon’s Halo fitness and wellness service and sells for $139.99. The Halo Rise measures sleep and can share environmental data and insights such as someone getting into bed and using that to set off actions in the home. It combines a light, a “no-contact sensor” that measures breathing and movement, and environmental sensors. Image courtesy of AmazonĪmazon also built a different clock called the Halo Rise, this one designed for health and wellness. It also introduced an improved Echo Studio device for $199.99 and added white as a color option. The clock now has more display capabilities, turning the clock numerals into a streaming song title or weather information. The Echo Dot has been re-engineered inside to fit a larger and more capable speaker inside. In its Echo ecosystem, Amazon announced an improved Echo Dot ($49.99) and Echo Dot+ Clock ($59.99). We’re seeing the development of an architecture for a smart home and a net of personalized computing develop. And while Alexa lives in the cloud, much of the data gathered from these devices will be processed and kept local, with only the insights getting passed along.

Using its own devices as the necessary sensor nodes and Alexa as the brains behind the operations. This is exactly what most of us want when asked about the smart home, and Amazon is quickly building it. Amazon’s David Limp gave an example of someone’s Echo Auto, realizing they were in the car and no one was at home, might suggest that an unlocked door be locked. For example, Alexa’s Hunches, a service that tracks what a consumer normally does in their home and suggests typical actions or new actions, will now use information from the car and then make suggestions for users in the car. Other devices such as the FireTV Cube or the fifth generation Echo Dot, Echo speaker, or Echo Auto also come packed with sensors and features that help them work seamlessly together using Alexa as the glue. Amazon also announced a new TV that will act as an extension of an Echo device with widgets, as well as a sensor package that provides information about people’s presence in the home and the surrounding environment.
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The humble Echo device is already a speaker and digital assistant, glass breakage detector, smoke alarm detector, and with the latest update from Amazon and Eero it becomes a mesh Wi-Fi hub. Just like the smart phone consolidated cameras, tape recorders, TVs, credit cards, and other devices into one gadget, Amazon is prepping its Echo speakers and Fire TVs to do the same for the smart home. But to do this Amazon needs consumers to trust it and give them reasons to buy into the ecosystem. The end goal is to turn the smart home into a robot that can tackle many of the tasks we don’t want to and do so in a manner that doesn’t ask too much of the consumer. Basically, Amazon is making sure everything it releases can act as a sensor providing as much information about the environment to Alexa, its digital assistant. Amazon launched a profusion of sensor-filled speakers, cameras, and televisions as well as services from its Eero Wi-Fi business and Ring security business on Wednesday as it doubled down on its idea of ambient intelligence.
