Tuesday, May 23, 2017

IoT: GE "Geneva Assistant"


GE Appliances has announced three new channels—washer, dryer and dishwasher—to IFTTT, making them the first appliance manufacturer to have its entire appliance suite on the platform. (Photo: GE)

GE is IoT enabling most of their kitchen appliances, and unifying communication with them by a common "assistant" that they call "Geneva", to join Amazon's Alexa (and Apple Siri, Google Assistant, Microsoft Cortana etc).

Hopefully they put a serious effort in securing those appliances... Expert's recommendation: keep your IoT appliances of separate WiFi from your computers.

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"The Alexa skill built for GE and Monogram appliances is called “Geneva,” and Alexa device owners can use and control their GE appliances, for example, by saying, “Alexa, tell Geneva I want hot water,” which will tell the connected refrigerator to get hot water ready, the company said.