Smart Home with Fexingo: IoT Devices, Home Automation, and Connected Living

Smart home devices collect more than just convenience data. This episode reveals how smart lighting data is being used by landlords and property managers to monitor tenant behaviour, with a specific focus on a 2025 study from Northeastern University showing that 68% of smart lightbulbs in rental units transmit occupancy patterns to third parties. Lucas and Luna discuss the privacy gap in smart hom...

Lucas and Luna unpack the surprising security vulnerabilities in everyday smart home devices. Using the 2023 Wyze camera breach and the 2024 vacuum hack at a European hotel as case studies, they explain why your robot vacuum and smart thermostat could be entry points for attackers. The conversation covers how IoT manufacturers often prioritize speed over security, why firmware updates matter, and...

Smart speakers get all the attention, but the real workhorse of the smart home is the humble thermostat. In this episode, Lucas and Luna dig into the quiet revolution in connected climate control. They examine how the Nest Learning Thermostat changed the game back in 2011 and why the category is now exploding. Lucas breaks down the surprising economics: smart thermostats can save homeowners an ave...

In the premiere of Smart Home with Fexingo, Lucas and Luna explore a surprising finding: researchers at the University of Michigan trained a neural net to detect early signs of appliance failure by analyzing the subtle acoustic vibrations picked up by a smart speaker's microphones. They discuss how the same hardware that lets you ask for the weather can double as a low-cost predictive maintenance...