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OliverIQ Releases Multi-Protocol Hub with Complete Smart Home as a Service Offering

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AI-powered universal hub ushers in a new era of smart home intelligence with affordable service and support

SOUTH JORDAN, Utah, Oct. 16, 2024 /PRNewswire/ — OliverIQ, the Smart Home as a Service (SHaaS) platform designed to bring smart home solutions to the broad market, today announced the availability of the OliverIQ Hub with built-in customer support from the AI-powered Ollie chatbot. This sleek, affordable plug-and-play device allows OliverIQ service providers to deliver comprehensive smart home services and on-demand device support to new and existing customers.

True Smart Home Experiences, Made Easy and Affordable

Unlike do-it-yourself platforms, OliverIQ is the first truly complete smart home offering. This subscription service, available exclusively through ISPs, security dealers, home builders, professional integration firms, and retailers, integrates seamlessly with smart devices from today’s leading manufacturers, unifying whole-home control in the OliverIQ App. With a few taps in the app, customers can enable advanced automations called Experiences that enhance the safety, comfort, efficiency, and convenience of their homes. Experiences include an “Away” mode that simulates occupancy, or a “Wake Up” routine that starts each day smoothly with coordinated lights, music, shading, and more.

OliverIQ providers can embed the OliverIQ software on their own hardware, including routers, control panels, thermostats and more – and now, with the OliverIQ Hub, they can also deliver OliverIQ SHaaS to customers immediately using a dedicated hardware device. The OliverIQ app and hardware can be white-labelled, strengthening customer loyalty and brand presence.

“OliverIQ makes service providers the smart home hero for their customers,” says Will West, co-founder and CEO of OliverIQ. “Homeowners have become accustomed to using separate apps, fobs, and switches for everything. Arriving home, opening the garage, unlocking the door, and turning on the lights is a multi-step process with at least three separate actions. With OliverIQ, your home welcomes you when it senses your arrival by opening the garage, unlocking specific doors, setting the thermostat to a comfortable temperature, and turning on lights and media according to your preference. This solution effortlessly transforms a collection of devices into a true automated system, enabling service providers to make their customers’ smart home dreams a feasible reality for the first time.”

The OliverIQ Hub plugs directly into a wall outlet and automatically begins the device discovery and commissioning process. The hub features support for leading connectivity standards such as Z-Wave, Zigbee, Wi-Fi and Bluetooth, with Matter support planned. OliverIQ can control an unlimited number of devices with unlimited remote support, and customers can add new devices from their preferred brands at any time. This is a future-proof service for the evolving smart home.

Meet Ollie: The AI Assistant Transforming Smart Home Support
The OliverIQ Hub comes equipped with Ollie, OliverIQ’s multilingual technical support chatbot. Users can ask Ollie setup and troubleshooting questions and get easy to understand, step-by-step instructions, often with rich media support such as how-to videos. Ollie can access the status and error codes of connected devices, diagnose issues, and provide real-time troubleshooting steps. The chatbot can even directly interact with connected devices to perform some troubleshooting workflows autonomously, improving user experiences and reducing service labor.

Ollie’s capabilities drastically lower service and support costs: The AI assistant handles a wide range of questions, reducing the need for human intervention and enabling faster resolution of customer issues relating to troubleshooting, device onboarding, or system maintenance. 

The Evolution of SHaaS  
With the OliverIQ Hub and Ollie, OliverIQ now offers a next-generation customer experience, with plug-and-play installation, seamless device onboarding and real-time AI-driven assistance. The OliverIQ Hub with Ollie gives partners the ability to provide comprehensive smart home services with minimal overhead, helping them scale their offerings quickly and cost-effectively.

“The smart home market is maturing, but the experience remains disjointed. Just 40% of smart home device owners coordinate their smart home devices in routines or wider automations. Plus, difficulty with installation, configuring device settings, and getting products to work together are among the top reasons buyers return smart home devices,” said Jennifer Kent, VP Research, Parks Associates. “Service providers are well positioned to deliver a better, whole-home automation experience, and they need tools to help them manage that process well and cost-efficiently.”

The OliverIQ Hub is available exclusively through OliverIQ partners, including broadband and internet service providers, security dealers, home builders, professional integrators, and retailers. For more information on the OliverIQ Hub and Ollie, visit oliveriq.com. 

About OliverIQ
OliverIQ is a Smart Home as a Service (SHaaS) platform that puts smart home automation in reach for everyone. With OliverIQ, a single user-friendly app unites third-party connected devices in the home, backed by unlimited always-on support. Consumers and installers can quickly and easily integrate, control, and manage diverse smart devices. OliverIQ is sold as a subscription model that includes the OliverIQ app, remote monitoring and management, optional live security monitoring, and comprehensive technical service and support – all for a low monthly cost. Founded by industry veterans Eric Smith and Will West, OliverIQ is committed to making home automation easy, affordable, and accessible for everyone. 

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Consilient Expands Access to Federated AI-Powered Financial Crime Solutions in AWS Marketplace, Including for Use in AWS GovCloud (US)

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Consilient’s Federated AML and fraud detection, synthetic financial-crime data, SAR analysis, and open-source intelligence are now available through AWS Marketplace

WASHINGTON, Nov. 9, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Consilient, the leading provider of federated AI-powered financial-crime discovery and detection technology, today announced that its solutions are now available in Amazon Web Services (AWS) Marketplace, including for use in AWS GovCloud (US). The offering provides financial institutions, fintechs, and U.S. government organizations with a streamlined way to discover, procure, and deploy Consilient’s capabilities through AWS Marketplace.

Customers now have access to Consilient’s Federated AI ecosystem and four complementary products:

Federated Learning Models and Exchange: Behavioral machine-learning models, deployed and shared through a secure federated network that continuously improve by learning across institutions and data sets, without any data moving or leaving the institution’s environment. Covering core anti-money laundering (AML) typologies and specific high-risk financial criminal and fraud activities, the Consilient models also surface hidden risks and emerging typologies that no single institution could detect alone.Federated Synthetic Data: Realistic, labeled examples of rare, emerging, and underrepresented financial-crime risks to support model development, evaluation, and improvement when historical cases and data are limited.SAR Analyzer: AI-assisted analysis of Suspicious Activity Report (SAR) narratives to connect related entities and cases, uncover recurring risk patterns, and turn investigative findings into reusable detection opportunities.OSINT Agent: Open-source and external intelligence on individuals, businesses, ownership, and relationships to help investigators assess risk with fuller context.

Customers can now deploy Consilient flexibly within their AWS environment, taking advantage of shared insights through Consilient’s federated exchange and capabilities while ensuring data remains local, secure, and private.

“Financial-crime teams need more effective and dynamic ways to find emerging risks without compromising sensitive data or adding unnecessary friction to procurement. In proven deployments at Tier-1 financial institutions, Consilient has improved efficiency by 75% and increased detection effectiveness by 4x, uncovering hidden risks that existing systems simply cannot see. Availability in AWS Marketplace makes it easier for financial institutions and government agencies to access these capabilities on a continuous basis, including our newer SAR Analyzer and Federated Synthetic Data products, within the secure, compliant infrastructure they require,”  Ajit Tharaken, Chief Executive Officer, Consilient.

Consilient’s availability in AWS GovCloud (US) reflects growing demand from U.S. government agencies and regulated institutions for financial-crime detection capabilities that meet the highest standards of security and compliance, areas where federated learning’s data-local architecture is a natural fit for cloud infrastructure.  Consilient allows for more dynamic public-private insight sharing and feedback without having to share or move data.

Consilient’s federated learning approach allows approved model updates and insights to strengthen detection across participating institutions without transferring the underlying customer data. Industry estimates suggest existing rules-based systems generate false positive rates of up to 98%, creating enormous operational overhead for compliance teams.  Consilient’s federated capabilities enable more efficient and effective risk discovery.

Consilient’s wider portfolio combines its federated approach with AI-assisted investigation, external intelligence, and synthetic data to address structural inefficiencies of current approaches and support the detection of complex, emerging financial-crime risks dynamically. Consilient’s solutions are now deployable within AWS infrastructure.

To learn more about Consilient’s offerings, visit Consilient.com or view its listing in AWS Marketplace at https://aws.amazon.com/marketplace/pp/prodview-3goaqbwjfiffo.

About Consilient
Consilient is the first company to apply federated AI for the detection and prevention of financial crime and fraud risk.  Consilient’s mission is to transform how the world prevents financial crime. 

Consilient enables financial institutions and regulators to transform financial crime detection by learning from patterns of behavior across institutions and borders, without ever sharing or moving data. Using federated learning, Consilient generates collective and constantly improving insights across data sets, making dynamic industry-wide collaboration to detect financial-crime risk possible for the first time. It reveals complex and emerging threats that cannot be detected within the boundaries of any single institution, improving risk discovery, increasing precision, and enabling more effective prioritization while maintaining strict data privacy and governance standards.

Co-founded and chaired by Juan Zarate, the first-ever U.S. Treasury Assistant Secretary for Terrorist Financing and former Deputy National Security Advisor for Combating Terrorism, Consilient was built to address the structural limitations of siloed detection systems and offer a more effective, collaborative, and systemic approach to preventing financial-crime and fraud while strengthening data privacy.

Learn more at Consilient.com.

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InventHelp Inventor Develops New Finger Blood Pressure, Pulse, Oximetry Device (CLR-357)

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PITTSBURGH, Nov. 9, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — “I’m a registered nurse, and I thought there could be a way to obtained three vital signs in one easy step,” said an inventor, from Romeoville, Ill., “so I invented the FINGER BLOOD PRESSURE, PULSE, OXIMETRY DEVICE. My design offers a simple and accurate way to frequently monitor blood pressure, pulse rate, and oxygen saturation.”

The invention provides an improved means to monitor vital signs in medical settings, at home, as well as when on the go. In doing so, it can be used to monitor the pulse, oxygen saturation, as well as blood pressure. As a result, it saves time and effort, and it eliminates the need to employ multiple devices. The invention features a practical design that is easy to use so it is ideal for the medical facilities, households, on-the-go individuals, and the general population.

The original design was submitted to the Chicago sales office of InventHelp. It is currently available for licensing or sale to manufacturers or marketers. For more information, write Dept. 25-CLR-357, InventHelp, 100 Beecham Drive, Suite 110, Pittsburgh, PA 15205-9801, or call (412) 288-1300 ext. 1368. Learn more about InventHelp’s Invention Submission Services at http://www.InventHelp.com.

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DongA Science turns 40 years of science journalism into AI tutor AiR NOVA, a CES 2027 honoree

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AiR NOVA answers K-12 students’ science questions using more than 100,000 articles written by DongA Science’s own journalists, showing the source article behind each answer.Launching in January 2027 on web, iOS and Android in Korean, English, Vietnamese and Spanish.

AiR NOVA’s Tutor answers a question about a newly named Korean dinosaur and shows the source article behind the answer. Background imagery is AI-generated.

SEOUL, South Korea, Nov. 9, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — DongA Science, a South Korean science media company that has published science magazines since 1986, has built an AI tutor on its own journalism. AiR NOVA, which answers students’ science questions from the company’s archive and shows the source article behind each answer, has been named a CES Innovation Awards® 2027 Honoree in the EdTech category, the company announced today.

As news publishers around the world weigh how their reporting should be used by AI, DongA Science took a different route by turning its archive into an exclusive learning product. Rather than drawing on the open web, AiR NOVA sources its answers from more than 100,000 articles reported and verified by the company’s science journalists over the past 40 years. This archive spans its magazine archive and daily science news, allowing students to verify where each answer originated. Furthermore, students using AiR NOVA in English, Vietnamese or Spanish receive answers in their selected language, alongside the translated source article from the Korean original.

To learn more about AiR NOVA’s CES 2027 recognition and explore its AI-driven educational features, visit nova.dongascience.com/intro or watch the introductory video at www.youtube.com/watch?v=03EsRqmuASQ.

Three Ways to Keep Students Asking

AiR NOVA is designed for K-12 students and integrates three core AI functions into a single app:

Tutor answers questions with verified sources. For instance, if a student asks, “Are new dinosaurs still being discovered?” Tutor explains at their grade level how the Doolysaurus was named in 2026 as Korea’s third new dinosaur species, and then displays the reference article.Socrates is a patent-pending Socratic-dialogue mode that replies with guiding questions instead of direct answers, encouraging students to reason their way to an explanation in their own words. Students can also upload their inquiry reports, prompting Socrates to ask questions that walk them back through their conclusion process.Coach sustains the inquiry process beyond the initial answer. Students work through missions tied to specific articles, which involve predicting, asking questions, checking sources, explaining and reflecting.

In the Classroom

Teachers can utilize Coach to structure lessons around articles that match their curriculum, build worksheets and missions, and track each student’s participation and results via comprehensive reports. This significantly reduces the time required to prepare inquiry-based lessons.

At launch, AiR NOVA’s science and math content will align with South Korea’s national curriculum, the U.S. Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS), the Common Core State Standards for Mathematics (CCSSM), Cambridge International and the International Baccalaureate (IB). AiR NOVA will be available in January 2027 on web, iOS and Android platforms, requiring no dedicated device. Pricing details will be announced at a later date.

Built on a Proven Service in South Korean Schools

AiR NOVA is the global edition of DongA Science AiR, the company’s established AI science inquiry service in South Korea. The school edition, DongA Science AiR edu, is currently utilized by more than 20,000 students across 170 schools, who collectively complete an average of 5,000 inquiry activities per month. DongA Science developed AiR NOVA based on this extensive operational experience and direct feedback from educators, including practicing teachers collaborating through a classroom problem-solving project run by the Korea Education and Research Information Service (KERIS), a South Korean public agency.

The Korean service was honored with the Minister of Science and ICT Award at the 2024 Digital Service Frontier Awards, while its school edition received the Minister of Education Award at the 2026 K-EduTech Contest.

Showcasing at CES 2027

AiR NOVA will be featured in the Korea Pavilion at CES 2027, taking place Jan. 6-9, 2027, in Las Vegas. During the event, DongA Science plans to connect with global education institutions and edtech companies.

“This CES Innovation Awards honor reflects our long-standing effort to combine the science content we have built up over many years with AI technology to solve real problems in education,” said Kyung-ae Jang, CEO of DongA Science. “We want students around the world to start from a small spark of curiosity and discover the joy of inquiry with AiR NOVA, and we want teachers to be able to design inquiry lessons without the extra burden.”

The CES Innovation Awards program, produced by the Consumer Technology Association (CTA), honors outstanding design and engineering in consumer technology products.

About DongA Science

DongA Science is a leading South Korean science media company that connects science journalism with AI technology to broaden how people learn. Starting with its flagship magazine, Science DongA, launched in 1986, it publishes science and math magazines for children and teens and, together with its daily science news, has built an archive of more than 100,000 science articles over 40 years. Content reported and verified by its science journalists is the foundation for building trustworthy AI education products. On that foundation, the company operates the AI science inquiry service DongA Science AiR in South Korea and will launch its global edition, AiR NOVA, in January 2027.

Website: www.dongascience.com/en
About AiR NOVA: nova.dongascience.com/intro
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