Home Automation
CEDIA Expo: Savant Goes Retail With DIY System
Savant, the supplier of custom-installed home-automation systems for the luxury market, is going retail and direct to consumers for the first time with the...
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Danalock Smart Lock Adds Nest, ZigBee, Harmony Integration
The Danalock smart lock from Poly-Control is getting a complete makeover. The company will go to the CEDIA Expo with a Danalock V2 smart...
Home Automation
Yale’s Entry Into Smart Locks Is Huge
Yale, the flagship brand of the leading lock company in the world, Assa Abloy, will legitimize the small but growing smart locks category with...
Home Automation
Sears Buys WallyHome Water-Leak Sensor Technology
Sears Holdings has acquired the technology behind WallyHome, a smart device that senses changes in moisture, temperature and humidity, and can alert homeowners to...
Home Automation
Nortek Security & Control Expands DIY Home Automation Presence
Nortek Security & Control expanded its selection of GoControl-brand wireless home-automation products from a handful to almost 20 models, which will be displayed at...
Home Automation
Nest Building Bridges In The Smart Home
Want the lights to turn on when no one is home, or have your security cam start recording when the doorbell is pressed? That...
Home Automation
More Ways To Feel Safe With Logitech’s Circle, Swann’s Professional HD
More choices are coming to consumers in the DIY security market. Logitech is reentering the Wi-Fi security-camera market after an absence of a year,...
Home Automation
Security Alert Sounded For Q4 Smart Home Sales
Consumer distrust about the reliability of DIY home-automation products is obstructing market growth and might lead to a “challenging holiday sales season” for suppliers,...
Home Automation
Amazon’s Alexa Brings Voice Control To Insteon Home Automation
Insteon’s home-automation hub has become the latest in a growing selection of home-automation products that can be controlled from Amazon’s voice-controlled Echo smart speaker....
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Quirky Files For Bankruptcy
Startup product incubator Quirky is filing for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection and looking to spin off its Wink smart home business separately, according to...
Home Automation
iDevices Readies 1st Apple HomeKit Devices
Siri Control For Devices, Lighting iDevices will launch its first three Apple HomeKit-enabled home automation products starting this month exclusively through Lowe’s stores and...
Home Automation
More Apple HomeKit Home-Automation Devices On The Way From iDevices
iDevices will launch its first three Apple HomeKit-enabled home automation products starting this month exclusively through Lowe’s stores and iDevicesinc.com. The long-awaited products are...
Home Automation
Logitech Gives Remotes A Refresh With Harmony Elite
Logitech has redesigned its top-of-the-line Harmony remote. The Harmony Elite, engineered for both home-automation and home-theater control, is an updated version of the Harmony...
Appliances
How The Connected Home Market Is Changing
Demand for home-automation products is rising in the DIY and custom-install channels, marketers agree. In fact, 54 percent of U.S. consumers ages 25 and...
Home Automation
AllSeen Alliance’s AllJoyn Lets Different Brands Of Appliances, TVs Talk To One Another
The AllSeen Alliance moved closer to making it easier for smart appliances and networked entertainment devices to work together and with other products based on...
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Digital Smackdown: Siri Vs. Cortana Vs. M
San Francisco last month was playing the big game of “Who is it?” as everyone tried to figure out who had taken over the...
Home Automation
Everything You Need To Know About Nest’s New Learning Thermostat
Nest Labs launched its third-generation Nest Learning Thermostat, adding a larger higher-resolution and the ability to detect furnace problems. The $249-suggested device also adds...
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LG Getting Smarter About IFA
Seoul, Korea – LG is getting smart with the planned product introductions at the Sept. 4-9 IFA show in Berlin, where the company will...
Home Automation
Google’s OnHub Is A Wi-Fi Router & Smart Home Hub
Google really wants to be the hub in your home. The search giant, which just wrapped up last week’s Alphabet headline hoopla, unveiled the...
Home Automation
Smart Home Update: iHome, Logitech, Legrand
New York – The connected-home market must be connecting with consumers, if announcements by iHome, Logitech and Legrand are any indication. iHome began shipping...
Home Automation
Here Comes Another Home-Automation Platform
Palo Alto, Calif. — Smart-house platform provider ROC-Connect has entered the North American market following last year’s launch in Europe and Latin America and...
Home Automation
Fibaro Home Center 2 Hub Is Compatible With Z-Wave, Nest, Others
Chicago – Poland-based Fibaro is targeting the custom-integrator channel with the shipment of its first home-automation hub for the U.S. market. The Z-Wave-equipped Home...
Home Automation
D-Link Expands Wi-Fi Home-Automation Selection
Fountain Valley, Calif. – D-Link expanded its selection of Wi-Fi-based home-automation products with the shipment of what it called the industry’s first Wi-Fi water-leak...
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AT&T Adds Home-Automation Packages
Dallas – AT&T has revised its Digital Life home automation/security plans to offer two bundles that it says deliver discounts over purchasing the same...
Home Automation
Amazon’s Echo Heard In Staples
Framingham, Mass. — Amazon has extended distribution of its Echo smart speaker to Staples, making it the exclusive third-party retailer of the Cloud-based device....
Home Automation
The Latest In Home Automation: What To Look For
New York – Home-automation suppliers have updated their product portfolios or added distribution in recent days, with key announcements coming from Amazon, Smart Things,...
Home Automation
CastleOS Plans Windows-Based Home Automation Hub
Boston – CastleOS launched home-automation software for Windows computers more than two years ago and now plans August availability of its first home-automation hub,...
Home Automation
Uniden Adds Top-End Security System
Irving, Texas — Uniden’s latest app-controlled home and small-business surveillance system steps up the company’s line to a suggested $499 and becomes its first...
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Swann Dives Into The Smart Home Pool
Santa Fe Springs, Calif. — Swann’s long-awaited entry into the home-automation market has arrived with the retail availability of the app-controlled SwannOne home-security ecosytem....
Home Automation
Thread-Certified Home Automation Products Seen In Late 2015
San Ramon, Calif. – The Nest-led Thread Group expects the first Thread-certified home-automation products to be available to consumers late this year now that...
Home Automation
Target Testing IoT Waters With Connected Concept Shop
Updated! San Francisco — Target will open a concept house here this Friday that showcases 35 connected devices within a sparse, sci-fi-like setting. The...
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Ecobee’s HomeKit Thermostat Hits Retail
Toronto, Canada – Smart-thermostat maker ecobee is selling through Apple stores for the first time with the launch of a HomeKit-certified version of its...
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TiO Takes Training On The Road
Melbourne, Fla. — Anuva Automation, the maker of TiO (Turn it On) building-automation products, is taking training on the road for the first time...
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Atlona Ships HDCP 2.2-Compliant HDMI Matrix Switchers
San Jose, Calif. –AV connectivity solutions provider Atlona is now shipping its AT-UHD-PRO3-88M 8×8 and AT-UHD-PRO3-66M 6×6, the company’s first HDMI to HDBaseT matrix...
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MiPow Expanding Bluetooth LED-Light Selection
Milpitas, Calif. – Startup MiPow will expand its selection of Bluetooth-controlled Playbulb LED lights with the July shipment of the $39 Garden, a solar-charging...
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Myfox Rolls Out DIY Security System
Campbell, Calif. –French company Myfox rolled outs its first DIY security system for the U.S. market through www.getmyfox.com and through select U.S. retailers. The...
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We Have More HomeKit Prices, Availability Details
New York – Three companies that announced plans a year ago to market Apple HomeKit-certified home-automation products have now revealed pricing and availability plans....
Home Automation
Millennials Embrace The Smart Home
Port Washington, N.Y. –Millennials are more aware of home automation products and more interested in buying them than the population as a whole, an...
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Curb Readies Energy-Monitoring System
Austin, Texas – Startup Curb plans September availability of an energy-monitoring system that connects to a home’s circuit-breaker box to monitor energy usage by...
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Flow Of Home-Automation Products Continues
New York – New do-it-yourself home-automation products continued to flow unabated into the market in recent days as iLuv expanded its selection, Google’s Nest...
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Nest Family Gets An Upgrade
Palo Alto, Calif. — Nest Labs leveraged the fruits of its Google parent and its Dropcam acquisition with the launch of a new security...
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Kwikset Adds Touchscreen Door Lock
Lake Forest, Calif. — Kwikset launched its first stand-alone touchscreen-equipped electronic deadbolt, which joins a model that integrates with home-automation systems and is sold...