The Smart World Series With SiliconANGLE

This week’s Smart World Series features a reinvented peephole, keyless hotel doors, redesigned health and fitness bands, and a smart city lab.

For those who missed last week’s Smart World Series, here’s a chance to catch up on the exciting developments in the connected world.  Each week, SiliconANGLE rounds up the top news trends regarding smart homes and cars, smart data centers and IT, smart infrastructure and all things related to the Internet of Things.

Peepholes reinvented, hotel rooms go keyless

Doors around the door are being reinvented. Gone are the days when you have to squint through a peephole, thanks to Brinno Inc.’s PeepHole Viewer.  The image of your visitor is displayed on a small LCD screen, and can be retrofitted to existing peepholes making for an affordable and easy upgrade.

Hotel doors are also being updated with keyless entry. Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide, Inc.’s SPG Keyless allows guests to go directly to their rooms upon arrival and open their room doors using their smartphones.

In other smart home news, the new AliGro Planter provides a mess-free and hands-free watering of plants.

Find out more about these amazing products in our Smart Living roundup.

New smartbands and platform keep you fit

Both Fitbit, Inc. and Aliph, Inc. (the company behind the Jawbone line of fitness bands), have both released new fitness bands that offer fresh features and smartwatch functions to appeal to consumers beyond  fitness enthusiasts. Also featured in the roundup is Kiqplan, a software platform with four programs, each designed to help motivate people to get rid of their beer bellies or stay fit during pregnancy.

Find out more about these new smartbands and fitness platform in our Smart Health roundup.

Labs and smart desktops for Smart Cities

Dell Inc. And Hewlett-Packard Co. are both trying to change how people use the desktop computer, especially creatives who need to draw or sketch. The respective desktops are dubbed the Sprout and Smart Desk. These desktops features two displays, one of which acts as a digital sketchpad.

This roundup also features the new version 1.9 of its Trimble Navigation Ltd.’s Trimble Connect for Water and Bristol, England’s effort to create a smart city lab to test future products and apps for the Internet of Things.

Find out more about the smart city lab and products in our Smart City roundup.

Tune in next week for more interesting stories, discoveries and innovations in the world of smart and connected things.

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