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- See also changes related to Internet of Things, or pages that link to Internet of Things or to this page or whose text contains "Internet of Things".
Smart home: Refers to home automation devices that have internet access such as voice recognition (smart speakers), lighting, keyless door entry, security cameras, sensors (for temperature, motion, water, etc.), on/off switches, thermostats, streaming devices, smoke detectors, robotic vacuum cleaners, etc; home automation is a broader category that includes any device that can be monitored or controlled via wireless radio signals, not just those having internet access. [e]
Matter (standard): An emerging standard for communications among smart home, or IoT, devices that promises to make smart devices work with each other regardless of which company manufactures them, that smart home devices will continue to be usable on your home network even when no connection to the internet is available, and that communications with smart home devices are secure. [e]- Thread (network protocol): an emerging standard for a mesh network protocol developed by a consortium of competing smart home companies, using IP version 6 over an IEEE 802.15.4 wireless network (on the 2.4 GHz spectrum) designed for low-power, fast, reliable messaging among IoT devices. [e]
- IEEE 802.15.4: Standard for the radios in the low-data-rate wireless networks for battery-driven devices of smart homes. Multiple physical layers are defined to operate in a variety of geographic regions with a variety of frequency bands. [e]
- Modem [r]: A communications device to convert digital signals to and from the format needed by an analog transmission system [e]
- Honor Harrington [r]: The central character in an extensive science fiction series created by David Weber, with considerable personality resemblances, although far higher technology, to Horatio Hornblower [e]
- Smart home [r]: Refers to home automation devices that have internet access such as voice recognition (smart speakers), lighting, keyless door entry, security cameras, sensors (for temperature, motion, water, etc.), on/off switches, thermostats, streaming devices, smoke detectors, robotic vacuum cleaners, etc; home automation is a broader category that includes any device that can be monitored or controlled via wireless radio signals, not just those having internet access. [e]
- Email history [r]: History and development of electronic mail. [e]