Avi-On Teams With Jasco In Home Automation
San Francisco – Home-automation startup Avi-on Labs launched a crowd-funding campaign to bring its Bluetooth mesh-network home-automation products to North America in the spring....
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San Francisco – Home-automation startup Avi-on Labs launched a crowd-funding campaign to bring its Bluetooth mesh-network home-automation products to North America in the spring....
Following a bounce-back year for Core Brands at CEDIA EXPO this past September, the Nortek subsidiary announced on Friday that its president Bill Pollock...
Updated! Minneapolis – Best Buy is rolling out home-automation departments to more than 400 stores this fall. The “Connected Home” sections are expected to...
Boulder, Colo. – Revolv, the home-automation hub supplier, has added compatibility with the Nest Protect CO/smoke detector and launched a new UI for the...
Irvine, Calif. – DIY home-automation supplier Insteon expanded its distribution base again with the launch of products today through 282 Menards retail stores nationwide...
New York — A Danish company is bringing a Bluetooth door lock and a combination Bluetooth/Z-Wave door lock to the U.S. market through Amazon’s...
Santa Fe Springs, Calif. – DIY security supplier Swann Security is expanding into DIY home automation with the launch of SwannOne, a security-focused home-automation...
Atlanta — AT&T is adding a dedicated on-wall and table-mount touchscreen controller to supplement the tablet and smartphone apps available to monitor and control...
Redwood City, Calif. – Icontrol Networks is expanding retail availability of its Piper home-automation hub/security camera. In its latest move, the company is extending...
New York – Home automation startup Wink will add a Wi-Fi-connected in-wall control center to supplement app control of wireless home-automation products. Wink, which...
Playa Vista, Calif. — Belkin International has added a basic smart LED lighting system to its entry-level WeMo home automation ecosystem. The WeMo LED...
Denver – Crestron put much of its promotional effort at the CEDIA Expo on its Pyng app, which simplifies home-automation setup, but the company...
Amsterdam, The Netherlands – The center of the U.S. home-automation industry is at the CEDIA Expo in Denver, but EchoStar is going to the...
Denver – Home-automation supplier Savant launched its next-generation home-control app and will for the first time offer an Android version, not just an iOS...
Denver—Control4 came to the CEDIA Expo with a configuration app that lets installers use smartphones and tablets to dramatically speed up and simplify the...
Denver – A new home-automation app and hub developed by Crestron will reduce installation time and boost margins by letting installers use tablets to...
Denver — Nest’s learning thermostat and smoke/carbon-monoxide detector will integrate with installed home-automation systems for the first time, Nest announced on the eve of...
When Jeremy Burkhardt returns to CEDIA EXPO next week as co-owner of audio start-up Origin Acoustics, he knows that he will have a lot...
Kansas City, Mo. — Start-up Smart Home Ventures is bringing the home-automation and security platform developed by Icontrol Networks to retail for the first...
Washington — Samsung Electronics entered into an agreement to purchase mass-market home-automation supplier SmartThings, whose founder and CEO maintained the company will continue to...
Melbourne, Fla. – The TiO (Turn it On) brand of residential and building automation products, launched last year, has a new owner. The new...
Harrison, N.Y. – URC has expanded its regional distributor base to 18 to sell its ccGEN2 IP-based whole-house home automation system, launched early this...
Mooresville, N.C. — Lowe’s expanded its selection of Iris home-automation products with the addition of four products that connect to its hub, which enables...
New Haven, Conn. — Yale Locks & Hardware is now shipping a line of Z-Wave key-free cylinderless deadbolts offering sleek designs, easier installation and...
Irvine, Calif. — Insteon will bring voice control to its home-automation products in the coming months via an upgraded Windows Phone 8.1 app that...
San Ramon, Calif. — A seven-member technology group that includes Nest Labs, Yale Security and Samsung’s CE group has defined a wireless mesh-network technology...
BENTON HARBOR, MICH. – Whirlpool has introduced a smart washer and dryer that can be wirelessly controlled by the Nest Learning Thermostat. Whirlpool said...
New York — The Home Depot will add to its home-automation assortment with the July 7 launch of Wink’s home-automation hub, which controls a...
Salt Lake City — Control4 acquired the home-automation products and intellectual property of Utah-based Card Access to complement its line of automation products. Card...
Fremont, Calif. — Oplink, a supplier of telecom-infrastructure components, entered the CE market early this year with two do-it-yourself security systems, and now it’s...
Denver — Tablet and smartphone maker Archos started its diversification drive with the launch of its first home-automation devices, said to be the first...
Minneapolis — Renowned home-thermostat manufacturer Honeywell is stepping out from the home-improvement and hardware store channels it has long dominated to include consumer electronics...
Provo, Utah — Direct-to-consumer supplier Vivint launched its next-generation security and home-automation service, which offers multiple new features based on its own Cloud-based platform...
Denver — The Home Depot this week will roll out the launch of a smart lawn sprinkler controller in 990 stores. The Iro smart...
Coopersburg, Pa. – Lutron is filling the gap in its product line between $20 in-wall dimmers and custom-installed whole-house lighting-control systems with the launch...
New York – Control4 executives went to an investors’ conference here to deliver an optimistic forecast of their company’s potential in the growing home-automation...
UPDATE! Petaluma, Calif. – Elan plans July shipments of the first two G-series home-automation controllers incorporating a new Linux-based platform said to deliver faster...
Stamford, Conn. — Harman International plans to buy AMX for $365 million, mainly to expand Harman’s control and automation presence in the enterprise market,...
Irvine, Calif. — Home-automation supplier Insteon will sell select products through Microsoft stores for the first time as part of a collaboration that includes...
Fountain Valley, Calif. – D-Link has begun offering the first product in its first line of home-automation products. The marketer of such network products...
Arlington, Va. — A Consumer Electronics Association (CEA) study found that almost all installations of home technologies in new homes increased or held constant...
New York — Online and catalog retailer Hammacher Schlemmer is stepping up its home-automation presence with the launch of a $149 system that lets...