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How the smart home is finally getting out of your phone and into your home

The smart home is getting easier to control and simpler to set up.

All the big tech companies at CES this year were showing off new map-based interfaces for interacting with smart home gadgets through their platforms, including LG, Samsung, Amazon, and even smaller players like TP-Link’s Tapo. While technologies such as RF sensing are making big advances, the ambient smart home that understands context (and can know when to turn this light on and at what brightness based on who is in the room and where) is still a long way out. At CES, smart home companies Govee and Aqara both demoed ways they’re using generative AI to help users build and execute routines that would have been fiddly and time-consuming to set up by themselves.

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