HOME HIERARCHHY
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. 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.