Amazon will soon have a map of your home: Tech giant's buyout of Roomba will allow it to get detailed layout plans and let it to connect ALL smart devices to one system
[Daily Mail, Where America Gets Its News] - As part of Amazon's $1.7 billion acquisition of iRobot, it will be in control of the company's new Robot OS, giving the company detailed maps of users' homes
- Those maps could be used to gather even more data about each user
- In developing the operating system, iRobot executives hoped to make all smart devices share information about usage and a person's whereabouts
- The location of all these devices would be added to the map, and Amazon will be able to limit which companies can connect to their smart home systems
Posted by: Skidmark 2022-08-11 |