Amazon and Intel Partner to Advance Smart Home Tech

From Amazon Repeat and the Nest Learning Thermostat to Philips Hue calorie-free bulbs and the August Smart Lock, there are already loads of gadgets on the marketplace that can make your home a little smarter.

At present, two tech giants—Amazon and Intel—are coming together to "accelerate the Smart Habitation ecosystem and extend natural linguistic communication capabilities to consumers everywhere."

The companies, tardily final week, unveiled two new technology initiatives to further that mission.

For starters, they're working together on Intel-based smart speaker reference designs that will feature Amazon Alexa. The new concepts are meant to "assist hardware manufacturers accelerate their development of voice-enabled devices with the Intel platform and Alexa Vocalisation Services," Intel and Amazon said.

Developers and manufacturers should exist able to check out the designs at some point in the first quarter of 2022.

"Amazon and Intel come across a tremendous opportunity to bring the benefits of a personal voice experience to millions of new consumers and are collaborating to encourage developers and device manufacturers to extend natural vox interaction to more products via Amazon Alexa," Amazon'due south Ted Karczewski wrote in a blogpost.

On acme of that, Intel is making it easier for its customers to bring vocalization control features to their connected products by adding Alexa to its Smart Home Hub.

"A truly smart habitation is one that provides users with experiences that ease the tasks of running a dwelling and enrich daily life," Karczewski wrote. "With vox as the central interface, customers have an fifty-fifty more than natural style to manage the hundreds of tasks they experience every solar day."

Virtually Angela Moscaritolo

Angela Moscaritolo

Angela Moscaritolo is PCMag's skilful on fitness and smart dwelling products. Pedagogy yoga for nearly ten years has helped her in evaluating a range of continued health products including fitness trackers, heart rate monitors, rowers, smart scales, stationary bikes, strength training machines, treadmills, and more. Angela as well tests smart abode devices from her ranch in Florida, including air purifiers, kitchen appliances, and robot vacuums, only to proper name a few.