Skookum Digital Works Free Friday Tech Talks

Friday Tech Talk: Lowes brings Iris to the SDW

January 25 · 12:00 PM
Skookum Digital Works

Lowes was tired of hearing about all of this smart-home-of-the-future vaporware, so they went and done just wile'd out and made home-automation a reality on their own.

Iris is the basis of DIY, home automation utopia without all that messy Arudino compiling or hacking of that old-netbook just so the cat can Twitter. Buy some modules, customize your app, and set up the alerts and actions you care about.

The Lowes internal skunkworks teams responsible for the Iris hardware/software/smartphone system will be at the SDW to share cool technical deets of the project and talk about how they created and brought these electronic gadgets to market—homebrew style.

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Mary Barkley

A single source solution for managing home intel?
Brilliant execution of protecting the Lowe's brand and business
model while encouraging retail purchases.

I can see a 3 pack for the multi-home owner ( beach, primary, mt)coming with a puppy - Holiday 2013!

0 · January 25
Kendra Shillington

I think I will be late due to this inclimate weather, many others may be as well, but I will be there!

0 · January 25
Paul Benninghove

Shit, i'm going to miss this one. Should be a killer talk.

0 · January 25
Trent Jones

is this still happening today? Just checking.

1 · January 25
- Josh Oakhurst
  
  Yes, we are emphatically still on. Gonna be sick.
  
  1 · January 25
- Melissa Martin
  
  Yes. The tech talk is still on for today
  
  0 · January 25
Miguel Moraldo

I look forward to learning more

0 · January 12
Jason Sharpee

Looking forward to see how open Lowe's IRIS sdk is for pytomation and misterhouse opensource projects.

0 · January 11
Trent Jones

man, was just thinking about this. the Alt.NET group is doing similar talk with Netduino

0 · October 26