'CEDIA Talks' at Expo 2018 feature 12 short presentations for smart-home pros in areas such as wellness, blockchain, robotics and 'multidimensional light.'

CEDIA Tech Council podcast ponders the location-based VR, Apple's new software updates, acoustical cameras that 'see' the noise and other emerging technologies.

Don’t call it a buying group; the Home Technology Specialists of America ‘trade consortium’ welcomes record attendance to its spring conference, where emerging technology such as Delos’ DARWIN home health/wellness platform, energy management

Sonos patent application describes how biometric data like perspiration, pulse or tone of voice could inform an audio system to play music or other content that is most conducive to the listener's well being.

In studying pre-CES IoT activity, we discerned a few new trends in smart-home technology ('the fog') and market forces (wellness) driving home-automation. But some things never change (standards).

An alarm clock that wakes you up to the smell of coffee, a standalone device that plays back lights and sounds for security and other IoT "gadgets" illustrate major smart-home themes including audio analytics, wellness, and AI.