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The smart home market is a mess of competing — and incompatible — technologies
There’s an old saying in the computer industry: “the great thing about standards is that there’s so many of them”. That’s certainly true when it comes to home automation and smart devices such as lights, security cameras and other time–saving gadgets. There are several technologies now available that attempt to provide a control system for all the smart devices in your home, including Samsung’s SmartThings, the oddly named Zigbee, and the do–it– yourself programming approach of IFTTT.