It is probably five or more years away, but could make connected devices even more attractive.
To sell the idea – convincingly – to consumers, companies will have to think hard about how to make connected devices useful, safe and understandable to the average person.
You can now easily make connected devices that transform lives in the way we have only been able to do with software before".
The idea of turning off the lights with a smartphone may seem gimmicky, but consumers are warming to applications, said Bill Scheffler, director of business development for the Z-Wave Alliance, a consortium of companies that make connected appliances.
WLS will also contribute to Intel's strategy to make connected computing ubiquitous from smartphones to laptops to embedded computing.
It's launching three free new apps — Do Button, Do Camera and Do Note — that will respectively let users trigger up to three actions each to make connected things work; and share photos and post notes to various other applications.
