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By Raphael Satter. WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The White House on Tuesday unveiled a new label for smart thermostats, baby monitors, app-controlled lights and other internet-connected devices that will ...
CLASP (the Collaborative Labeling and Appliance Standards Program) is an international nonprofit organization which provides technical and policy support to governments worldwide and works to implement energy efficiency standards and labels (S&L) for appliances, lighting, and equipment. It specializes in publishing studies and analyses with ...
Readily identifiable icons are used to depict common network appliances, e.g. routers, and the style of lines between them indicates the type of connection. Clouds are used to represent networks external to the one pictured for the purposes of depicting connections between internal and external devices, without indicating the specifics of the ...
Internet of things devices also have access to new areas of data, and can often control physical devices, [273] so that even by 2014 it was possible to say that many Internet-connected appliances could already "spy on people in their own homes" including televisions, kitchen appliances, [274] cameras, and thermostats. [275]
A smart device is an electronic device, generally connected to other devices or networks via different wireless protocols (such as Bluetooth, Zigbee, near-field communication, Wi-Fi, NearLink, Li-Fi, or 5G) that can operate to some extent interactively and autonomously.
[4] The first appliance labeling rule was established in 1979 and all products were required to carry the label starting in 1980. Energy Star is a similar labeling program, but requires more stringent efficiency standards for an appliance to become qualified, and is not a required program, but rather a voluntary one.
In 2020, Trump pardoned the elder Kushner for convictions from 2005 over tax fraud, retaliating against a witness who testified against him and making false statements to the Federal Election ...
By the late 1990s and the early 2000s, the idea of connecting home appliances to the Internet (Internet of Things) had been popularized and was seen as the "next big thing." [3] In June 2000, LG launched the world's first internet refrigerator, the Internet Digital DIOS. This refrigerator was unsuccessful because consumers saw it as unnecessary ...