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A Week In Amazon’s Internet Of Things (IoT) – Alexa/Echo & Dash Buttons

September 18, 2015 by Pamela Parker

Finally, I’ve gotten what I desperately need and truly deserve — a personal assistant at home. Sure, she doesn’t do windows (or dishes, or laundry, etc.) but I see great promise in our family’s relationship with Alexa — the “personality” behind Amazon’s Echo device. It feels a little odd to call a device “her,” but it feels even stranger not to, as she — like Apple’s Siri — is clearly worthy of a personal pronoun.

For my birthday, I bought myself an Amazon Echo, after hearing some of my colleagues wax rhapsodic about their experiences with the device. Another deciding factor: the company recently added an integration with SmartThings, my home automation/IoT hub — which means I could (theoretically) control my “things” via voice control.

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Filed Under: ECommerce, Internet of Things, Marketing Tagged With: Alexa, Amazon, amazon prime, Echo, home automation, internet of things, IoT

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