Google Announces Android@home

johngalt4u2

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While the press release was short on details any time Google throws it's hat in the ring it's worth noting. The Android@home network is similar to that used by ZigBee, a low-power wireless network used for short-range home automation. I look forward to hearing more about this product and will continue to research anything that comes out about it. There are many concerns being expressed about the "object tracking" capabilities referred to in the articles (Is your refrigerator running? Google knows). In the mean time here are a couple of links to see what's been released so far. I'm new to this forum so I can't post links yet but I will once they allow me to.

Thanks,
Chris Clark
 
Hey Chris,

I work for a home automation company (www.c9ny.com) and I try and stay on top of all smarthome activity but somehow Google as a home automation platform has missed my radar. Are you able to post links yet?!

Thanks,

Rosa Luna
 
here's one - http://www.engadget.com/2011/05/10/google-announces-android-at-home-framework/ but that was from last years I/O I think.

It was probably part of their USB break-out kit. There are some rumors that this year's I/O will have more on android @ home content, I'll report in if I see any there abouts.

( search for google-announces-android-at-home if that URL didn't get through, and android@home for general info )
 
Thanks! As I'm looking at this article bells are ringing. I'm curious to see how they'll do in the smarthome industry.
 
(yawn) ... Anything ever happen with Google's power-monitoring initiative?
http://googleblog.blogspot.ca/2011/06/update-on-google-health-and-google.html

Sometimes there's no advantage to being the 800 pound gorilla in the room.
 
Google 'retired' its power monitoring platform, as did Microsoft. As for Android@Home, I don't see it replace the typical DIY home automation setup, but more as a platform to be integrated with set top boxes and appliances. So I wouldn't count on that anytime soon (and I would love to be proven wrong for sure).
 
Everyone keeps trying to reinvent the control part. That's the easy part. Then they kind of pretend no one has ever done it before.

What they need to present is a breakthrough in ease of setup and configuration. Something that is so easy that anyone could use it. So far no one has figured out what this should look like.
 
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