BSH (Bosch und Siemens Hausger’te) has demonstrated the latest version of its Home Connect software at a press conference in the run up to the IFA exhibition in Germany. It claims that the system will be the first in the world that allows more than one brand of smart appliance to be controlled via a single app. BSH claims that 90% of households own appliances made by more than one brand and that market research claims that the increasing number of smartphone users wants to use their phone as a control center. Home Connect hopes to ‘enable the remote operation and monitoring of different brands of connected household appliances.’ The platform will be fully unveiled at the IFA Consumer Electronics…