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| READ-ONLY today* Bulleted list itemApple Home app on iOS 10 details:* Bulleted list item* Home app - a central point of organization for the connected home setup, with support for new categories of devices, including cameras. ** Management of devices through the [http://www.cnet.com/news/heres-whats-new-for-apple-homekit-in-ios-10/ Control Center] ** Apple [http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-3774919/Siri-set-control-home-Apple-launch-app-Amazon-Google-battle-smart-house.html said] nearly 100 home automation products are adopting HomeKit this year, bringing support for thermostats, lights, window shades, door locks, video cameras and more. ** HomeKit devices and the iOS Home are integrated with Siri * The first data-collecting sensors in Chicago's smart city initiative went live. The city installed 2 nodes last week as part of the [https://arrayofthings.github.io/ Array of Things] project, whose goal is that by the end of 2018 there will be 500 nodes around Chicago. Data from the nodes will be publicly available around the middle of October for free on the city of Chicago's Data Portal and the Plenar.io portal * Amazon news from IFA Berlin, Europe's largest tech show:** LG's upcoming smart home hub will [http://www.cnet.com/news/lg-welcomes-alexa-into-its-smart-thinq-hub-at-ifa/ integrate] with Amazon's Alexa digital assistant, in a limited fashion at first. ** Amazon is also certifying [https://www.engadget.com/2016/09/01/omate-rise-amazon-alexa-limited-edition/ smartwatches] to work with Alexa** Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Microchip Technology partnered to develop a provisioning platform and supported secure chip. The hardware, designed by Microchip, will help the platform provide end-to-end IoT security procedures and simplify IoT solutions that operate on AWS. *The software engineers that have been working on the Nest platform are being [http://fortune.com/2016/08/30/google-nest-developers-alphabet/ moved] to Google in order to create a unified Smart Home platform. The combined team will continue to work on Google Home, a smart speaker rival to Amazon's Echo.
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