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Crafting a Comprehensive PRD: 5 Must-Have Elements

In the ever-evolving landscape of IoT products, a well-defined Product Requirements Document (PRD) is crucial to the development process. Whether you’re a product manager, engineer or designer, a meticulously crafted PRD is the roadmap, ensuring your team stays aligned and focused on delivering a successful product. This post will explore the five essential items to…

Is Matter Stifling Smart Home Innovation?

With all due respect to the parties that are working hard to develop it, the Matter standard is struggling. Sure, it’s a new protocol and it will get better. But how much better? How long will that take? And if I’m a manufacturer or consumer, should I hold off on new products until I find…

Breaking Through Stigma in Senior Tech

For all its diversity, the huge Boomer generation usually has one experience in common: the challenge of helping aging parents and loved ones stay healthy and independent. I call it a challenge because many seniors aren’t happy to think they need help, and as a result, they often turn it away, whether it comes from…

Audio Fests: Making the Experience Tangible Again

I recently had the pleasure of attending the annual Pacific Audio Fest, held in my hometown of Seattle. In just its second year, the show has already become an important date for the specialty audio market, with nearly 100 vendors participating. It was fun to see old friends and make new ones at an event…

Embracing Generative AI From a Product Development Perspective

As the world of generative AI continues to evolve at an astonishing pace, businesses must stay informed and test new solutions, while also being cautious of how it’s being used within the organization. With the rapid expansion of AI tools, it’s essential to ensure that your team is using these resources responsibly by protecting trade…

OTC Hearing Aids: Why So Slow?

Half a year has passed since over the counter hearing aids became available for sale. Where do things stand today? Not as far along as we’d have expected for a market estimated at 25 million customers in the U.S. alone. Is this category simply slow out of the gate or are there problems that are…

Bluesalve Partners Strengthens Team With Noted Industry Veterans

Ashburn, VA, April 17, 2023 – Bluesalve partners today announced that consumer technology veterans Rich Bira and Ryan Tykwinski have joined the firm. The prominent consulting group has recently grown by double digits in serving the challenging IoT and smart home markets. The additional team members’ unique skills will increase bluesalve’s capacity to deliver innovative solutions…

Bluesalve at ISC West 2023

I have not seen ISC West’s official attendance figures as I write this, but my guess is that the words “record breaking” will be part of that announcement. From the perspective of both an attendee and a person who invested a significant number of hours working an exhibitor booth (our client DEN Smart Home), the…

Bluesalve at TecHome Builder Summit 2023

The TecHome Builder Summit is an annual event that brings together builders and technology companies to share and learn best practices for integrating technology into their customer’s homes. It focuses on opportunities for builders and multifamily companies to make tech a win-win-win for homebuyers/residents, builders/multifamily companies and their vendor / trade partners. This year’s conference…

What (I Hope) We Learned About the Future at CES 2023

I have long maintained that one should never underestimate the power of a random encounter in a trade show aisle. Humans are wired for interaction, and it was great to be back at a live show with a big crowd to experience the universe of consumer technology. Following 2021’s interruption and last year’s sparsely attended…