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The Philips Hue Bridge smart lighting hub will be automatically enriched with Matter making all connected Philips Hue products compatible with this new industry-unifying standard.

British energy and connected home company Centrica's new study shows that Britons are "baffled by the number of buttons, symbols and switches", with "millions" too busy to read instructions, thus wasting thousands in poorly used technology in homes.

Only about 10% of households in Australia, the UK and the US have connected home solutions, according to a newly published online study of nearly 10,000 people in the three countries.

D-Link has solved another slice of the home security surveillance struggle – cabling up a seriously smart siren solution to a security system and smartphone.

Many Australians are interested in connected home services primarily for delivering and managing home security, energy and utility and health services.

With multiple players seeking to exploit the potential to service consumers in their homes via the increased bandwidth of the NBN the will need to collaborate and co-operate if the full potential of the 'connected home' is to be realised, says a report from the Australian Centre for Broadband Innovation (ACBI).

Telstra has unveiled ambitious plans to provide everything the consumer of the connected home might need in the way of connectivity, content, services and the devices to make use of these.

Some subscribers just want their ISP or carrier to provide the pipes and then stay out of the way. But that tends to mean low margins, so providers are keen to provide additional services. Amdocs Connected Home allows ISPs and carriers to compete with 'over the top' providers of services such as remote security, health monitoring, and entertainment.