How Athom is building a better smart home with its Homey platform

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Smart home technology is a promise that is yet to truly transform our connected lifestyle. It dates back to the first emergence of home automation – when Nikola Tesla created a remote control for a toy in 1898 and when Westinghouse engineer Jim Sutherland created the ECHO IV as the first true home automation device in 1966. More than a decade after Sutherland’s creation, smart home still remains a concept and even the likes of Google have abandoned their planned smart city project aimed to showcase smarter living. A major peril of smart homes is the lack of compatibility between various products available in the market.

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