Home Automation
D-Link Adds Alexa Voice Control To Wi-Fi Smart Plugs
D-Link has joined the growing number of smart-home suppliers integrating their products with Amazon’s Echo, Tap and Dot, and Fire TV, enabling voice control...
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URC Adds Compatibility With Philips Hue, Honeywell, Hunter Douglas, CoolMasterNet, Tekmar
URC’s Total Control home-automation system is expanding its reach inside the home to control more brands of home systems, including Philips ZigBee-based Hue light...
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Lutron Adds Amazon’s Alexa Voice Control To Caseta Wireless Lighting Systems
Lutron Electronics has become the latest smart-home supplier to integrate its products with Amazon’s Echo, Tap and Dot, enabling voice control of Lutron’s Caseta...
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ISC West: New Smart-Home Products On Way From Alarm.com, Kwikset, Nortek, URC
Smart home suppliers are expanding the capabilities of their systems, entering new niches, and expanding their product selections as the smart-home market continues to...
Home Automation
MiOS Home-Control Tech Coming To Nortek Brands
Technology from home-automation platform provider MiOS will come to Nortek’s commercial and residential brands after Nortek buys a 25 percent stake in the company,...
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Nortek: Smart-Home, Personal-Safety Systems Converge With Home Safety Hub
Nortek Security & Control integrated a personal safety system with home-security sensors to automatically send home-sensor and personal-safety alerts to caregivers. The company’s Numera...
Home Automation
Condoms With A Click: Amazon Dash Does It Again
Amazon appears to be aiming for the college crowd with its latest raft of Dash button brands. As a refresher, Dash is a Wi-Fi-based...
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Savant Updates To Pro 8.0 OS, Readies Pro Remote
Home-automation supplier Savant is launching its new Pro 8.0 OS, a new $700 Pro Remote with high-res touchscreen, an upgraded Savant Pro app, and...
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HomeSeer Adds Z-Wave Plus Products
HomeSeer is joining the growing number of smart-home companies offering products with wireless Z-Wave Plus. Z-Wave Plus products offer increased range, extended battery life,...
Home Automation
Amazon’s Alexa Kisses Big Ass Fans
Wi-Fi ceiling fans and LED lighting fixtures from Haiku Homes, a division of Big Ass Solutions, will join the growing number of home-automation products...
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HAUS Trains Dealers To Prosper In Home Automation
HAUS, a new member-driven organization in Denver, opened the first training center in consumer electronics to focus on home-automation training and on helping dealers...
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Ring Chimes In With Second Wi-Fi Doorbell
Flush with a $61.2 million in new funding, Ring is expanding its Wi-Fi doorbell lineup with the addition of a slimmer model that steps...
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EchoStar, Nest, TP-Link Add To DIY Smart-Home Options
Smart-home companies Nest and TP-LINK are adding new capabilities to their home-automation products while EchoStar Technologies is launching its first system. EchoStar’s entry differs...
Home Automation
Smart Home Systems Can Get Along
Withings and Zuli are making connections with other companies’ smart-home products. Withings teamed up with IFTTT.com to integrate its Withings Home HD security camera...
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Clare Controls Goes On-Wall, Entry-Level
Clare Controls, the supplier of professionally installed home-automation products, is expanding its customer base with the $399 CLIQ.mini, which can be mounted on a...
Home Automation
Amazon Welcomes Echo’s Little Siblings: Dot & Tap
Amazon is bringing the capabilities of its $170 Echo wireless speaker and personal digital assistant to two new products: the Tap and the Dot....
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URC, Bose, Amazon, Brita Add Smart-Home Scenarios
Smart-home technology isn’t standing still, thanks to developments from a variety of suppliers offering new applications and control technologies. URC, the supplier of professionally...
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Amazon Echo, Apple HomeKit Tops In Smart-Home Buzz
Amazon Echo and Apple HomeKit are tops in mindshare among consumers who go online to discuss smart-home ecosystems, while interest is waning in the...
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Samsung Printers Join Amazon Dash Cache
Select Wi-Fi printers from Samsung are the latest devices to join Amazon’s Dash automatic replenishment system. By signing up for the program through Samsung’s...
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SkyBell Ringing In The New
SkyBell, the Wi-Fi video doorbell maker, is trying some new things. The 2.5-year-old company plans to expand its product selection beyond video doorbells, add...
Home Automation
iDevices Cooks Up New Product Strategy
iDevices is selling off its smart-thermometer business to outdoor-grill maker Weber Stephens Products so it can focus on connected-home products, iDevices announced. iDevices was...
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Bang & Olufsen Takes To Cloud To Integrate Home Systems
Bang & Olufsen is going to Integrated Systems Europe (ISE) to offer custom installers more ways to integrate its audio and video products into...
Home Automation
Why Crestron Bolted 2016 CEDIA Show
Ami Wright, Crestron’s director of residential programs, says Creston will fill the gap by making it easy for dealers to see new products and...
Home Automation
URC To Hone Installers’ Home-Network Skills
Custom-install supplier URC is collaborating with professional-grade network-equipment supplier Luxul to improve its dealers’ home-network skills. Luxul offers networking products for residential, commercial, industrial and...
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URC Teams With Dealer Portal SupplyStream
Custom-install supplier URC is trying to make life easier for its authorized dealers by teaming up with SupplyStream, the online portal that lets dealers...
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Control4 Launches EA Smart Home Controllers
Control4’s next generation of home-automation controllers include the industry’s first single-room home-entertainment solution said to offer home control and home automation. All three new EA...
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Smart-Home Market Firing On All Cylinders
The smart-home industry is firing on all cylinders at the start of the New Year, with suppliers of installed and DIY systems launching new...
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Amazon Begins Auto Replenishment Via Dash-Connected Devices
The first connected devices to integrate Amazon’s Dash automatic replenishment system are ready for their close-up, Mr. Bezos. First out of the starting gate...
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Swann Secures With 4K
Forget about that old, grainy security video of yesteryear. Footage is moving into 4K. Swann, no stranger in the security and smart-home categories, has...
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CES 2016: Roost Debuts 9V Smart Battery For Smoke Alarms
Roost is launching its Roost Smart Battery at CES 2016, designed to transforms existing smoke and CO alarms into smart alarms. Via its familiar...
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It’s A Smart Home Boomtown At The Sands
To paraphrase a certain real-estate mogul and presidential candidate, smart-home technology at CES and in 2016 will be “yuge.” Spilling out from the Sands...
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LG To Step Up Smart Home Presence At CES 2016
LG plans a CES introduction of its first smart home hub, which will communicate with connected appliances and sensors using the wireless AllJoyn Alliance...
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Alarm.com, ConnectSense Smart Home Products Bring Temp Control & Siri To The Living Room
Some of the latest smart home products provide more precise control over room temperature and deliver Siri voice control of lamps and appliances. Alarm.com...
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Samsung Sees Drones, IoT In Its Future
Samsung Electronics will reportedly make a big push into drones and IoT in 2016. Samsung last year bought IoT company Smart Things and plans...
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Control4 Selling Denon Products To Dealers Through Web Store
Home-control supplier Control4 has begun offering many Denon audio products through its online dealer store to authorized Control4 dealers in the U.S. The available...
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Wink Gets A Nod From Flex
Flex, formerly Flextronics, will buy DIY home-automation supplier Wink from startup incubator Quirky, which recently filed for Chapter 11. The acquisition is expected to...
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Lowe’s Revamps Iris Smart Home System
Lowe’s revamped its DIY Iris smart-home system with faster performance, lower prices, and a selection of products that has grown to 75. The second-generation...
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Thread Group Begins Smart-Home Product Certification
The Nest-led Thread Group has begun certification testing of more than 30 products and components submitted so far by Thread Group members. Certification testing,...
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More Than 1 In 5 Intend To Use A Smart Watch To Control A Smart Home
Many consumers who own or plan to buy a smart watch will use it to control smart-home devices, a Parks Associates survey found. More...
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Bluetooth Smart To Get Smarter In 2016
The Bluetooth Special Interest Group (SIG) will increase the Internet of Things (IoT) functionality of its Bluetooth Smart standard in 2016 with longer range,...
Home Automation
Amazon’s Echo No Longer Plays Hard To Get
Amazon’s $179 Echo smart speaker will reverberate in stores throughout the U.S. in time for the holidays as distribution opens up to more than...
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Smart Homes Skew Young, But Older Households Buy More Devices
Younger households adopt smart-home devices at a higher rate than older households, but older households with smart-home devices own more devices on average, Parks...