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What is CES?

CES is the Consumer Electronics Show

The Consumer Electronics Show (CES) is an annual trade show organized by the Consumer Technology Association. It is held every year in January at the Las Vegas Convention Center in Las Vegas, Nevada, United States .The event typically hosts presentations of new products and technologies in the consumer electronics industry.

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What is Echo?

Echo is a smart speaker

The Amazon Echo (and the Echo Dot) is a smart speaker developed by Amazon. The Echo can play music of course, but also comes with a built-in virtual assistant called Alexa. Via Alexa, speech recognition can perform commands such as playing music, setting up an alarm or reading the weather forecast or traffic information. Alexa also works with several IOT devices, so you can also ask Alexa to put your smart thermostat a few degrees higher. And of course you can easily order products from Amazon via the ultrasound. Read More

What does IoT mean?

IOT means Internet Of Things

With IOT it is about linking devices (and people) to the Internet. The IOT goes so far that all imaginable devices are connected to the Internet at any given time. There are more and more devices connected, and it is expected that 2013 is the year that IOT really breaks through (it has been thought since 1999 that this is going to happen anyway…). The Things ensure a reduction in wastage: wasting time, or attention, or energy, money, etc. The most tangible for most people is the smartphone, and device that is always connected, another device that also always emerges from publications about IOT is the intelligent refrigerator: the fridge that knows when something is on, and immediately an order for You do. Since 2008, the number of devices connected to the Internet is already greater than the number of people in the world, this will only increase in the coming years. 12 devices per person are expected to be connected in 10 years. Read More