Google bids for home control with Android@Home strategy
Latest company to pursue home management market already staked out by Verizon, others
Google appears to be the latest company targeting the market for home control and automation, announcing at the Google I/O Developers Conference in San Francisco this week that it is working on an Android@Home system.
Industry News
Blogs
Briefing Room
advertisement
The announcement and a technology demonstration came amid the broader unveiling of Android 3.1, the so-called “Ice Cream Sandwich” release of the Honeycomb operating system. The new version will be available in the fourth quarter, and reportedly is expected to be used in some Google TV-related gear. Android 3.1 offers many new features, including enhanced Wi-Fi networking support and an application programming interface for hosting for USB devices.
The Android@Home system will be Wi-Fi based, but also may involve other connectivity technologies, according to Google officials. It is not yet clear to what degree Android@Home may challenge other in-home, short-range connectivity and management approaches. An Android@Home demonstration at the conference involved use of an Android device to control home stereo speakers, attendees said.
Google joins a number of service providers and other technology companies targeting the home device management opportunity, including perhaps most notably Verizon Communications, which announced new home control features at CES 2011 last JanuaryWant to use this article? Click here for options!
© 2012 Penton Media Inc.
advertisement
Learning Library
Webcasts
Using Real-Time Offers, Alerts and Interactions To Improve the Mobile Broadband Experience
In this Webinar you will learn how to create a real-time relationship with your customers, how to proactively improve the customer experience, and how to successfully target and cross-sell services to boost incremental revenue.
- Megabytes to Megabucks, Bandwidth to Business Models: How 4G Is Changing Everything
- How to Unplug Your Redundant Telco Apps To Save Money and Improve Efficiency
- When IaaS Isn't Enough: Service Provider Business Models to Drive Growth and Build Margin
- How to Transform Your Aging Telco Voice Network to Drive New Profits and Revenue
- Creative Licensing Approaches for Telcos & Their Network Equipment Vendors
- Smart Home Opportunity: Balancing Customer Data & Privacy
White Papers
The Role of Diameter in All-IP, Service-Oriented Networks
This paper discusses the rise of Diameter and benefits of Diameter Protocol.
- Conducting The Orchestration – Order Management at the Speed of Business
- Toward a Converged Network Edge
- Beyond Spam – Email Security in the Age of Blended Threats
- 6 Important Steps to Evaluating a Web Filtering Solution
- The Expertise to Protect You from Botnet and DDoS Attacks
- Seeing is Believing – Bridging the Order Visibility Gap
Featured Content
A time and money saving approach to fiber deployment
Service providers are under tremendous pressure to turn up new services faster then before and, at the same time,
to do it at less expense - and intra-office fiber is one of the biggest challenges in terms of both cost and service
turn-up.
Stay Connected
of interest
The Latest
News
From the Blog
Briefingroom
Join the Discussion
advertisement
Resources
Get more out of Connected Planet by visiting our related resources below:
Connected Planet highlights the next generation of service providers, as well as how their customers use services in new ways.
Subscribe Now