Your Smart Home Has Plenty of Devices. What It Lacks Is a Brain

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Smart homes have become very good at adding intelligence one device at a time.

Cameras can recognize people. Lights can follow schedules. Speakers can take voice commands. Storage systems can hold years of family photos and video. Yet the home as a whole often remains fragmented: security footage lives in one app, family files in another, automations somewhere else, and much of the intelligence still depends on separate cloud services. The problem is no longer a lack of smart devices. It is that data, computing, and control inside the home still operate in silos. That is the problem UGREEN is trying to address with HomeAgent.

At its Smart Living Launch Event on Sept. 1 at Gillette Stadium in Foxborough, Massachusetts, UGREEN officially entered the AIoT space with the HomeAgent Series, alongside the new MagFlow Series, while naming New England Patriots cornerback Christian Gonzalez its Global Brand Ambassador.

Rather than positioning...

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