Connected Environments

Fractional Executives Create More Than the Sum of the Parts

In today’s unpredictable economic climate, tech companies can often be seen scaling back their workforce. Naturally that makes it challenging to achieve existing business goals, much…

Unlocking the Power of IoT: Building Your Own Ecosystem on AWS—-Part One

Over the coming weeks I will be sending out articles discussing the current IoT landscape and discussing all of the considerations a company must make when…

Apple Gets It Right Again

Imagine a tech company that hands you a deck with the following business plan: “We’re going straight for the top end of the mass market. We’re…

Builder Innovator Week – Our Takeaways

The homebuilder market is undergoing dramatic changes and technology is underpinning most of them. At the recent Builder Innovator Week in Phoenix, the bluesalve team saw…

Year Zero: Moving Forward With Matter

Ended soon This month’s launch event for the Matter interoperability standard was an undeniable high point in the nearly 50-year history of the smart home. Through…

What Are Your Plans For Proptech?

Ended soon Lately we at bluesalve have been paying close attention to the red-hot market for proptech. Most of the buzz has focused on how these…

Serving the Audio Prosumer

Ended soon An old cliche tells us that a rising tide lifts all boats. The home audio industry could certainly use the lift. Over the past…

Will It Finally Matter?

Ended soon It’s been nearly three years since the heavyweights of the connected world agreed to join forces on an interoperability standard for smart devices. What…

How Smart Does Your Smart Product Need to Be?

Ended soon As is true of people, some smart devices are smarter than others. And as is true with people, greater “smarts” in devices usually cost…

TV: The Obvious Smart Home Interface?

Ended soon As smart homes become increasingly sophisticated, integration trends are moving toward the total convergence of home connectivity, with all IP devices addressable by the…