New smart home chip lets devices have 10-year battery life [The Verge]
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What if the next couch you bought had a chip inside that relayed information to the rest of your home? I have no idea what that chip might do or why you’d want it, but the possibility of a smart couch is moving closer reality thanks to the smart home system Z-Wave. The company behind Z-Wave, Sigma Designs, is announcing a new chip today that it claims can get more than 10 years of battery life out of a single coin-cell battery. Sigma hopes that extensive battery life will allow more and more parts of our home to get connected, including our furniture. These are for simple, low-power products In addition to the long battery life, Sigma says the chip, known as the Z-Wave 700 Series, has 300 feet of range, so it can work for gadgets placed outside the home and far off into the yard, too. These are simple, low-power chips, so don’t expect them to be used for anything particularly complicated. Sigma suggests these will mostly be used for sensors — say, one monitoring for wat
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