Inside Apple’s Plan to Automate Your Home

If you think of all your home's lights, climate controls and automation gadgets as a sort of Russian Nesting Doll, you start to understand Apple HomeKit and its database-driven approach to home automation.

During a HomeKit introduction session at Apple’s World Wide Developer’s Conference (WWDC) in San Francisco on Tuesday, an Apple engineer described how virtually every home, room, device, function and setting would have a name in the HomeKit system and how Siri, Apple’s intelligent voice assistant, could recognize and let you control it all thanks to a common database. Read more...