Home Automation
Will Smart Homes Be As Common As Smartphones?
Sixty-eight percent of Americans say they are confident that smart homes will be as common as smartphones within 10 years, and 83 percent expect...
Home Automation
Home Automation
Google’s OnHub Wi-Fi Router Gets A Sibling
Google’s OnHub Wi-Fi router is getting a companion. The $219 Asus-made OnHub will join the $199 OnHub made by TP-LINK and launched in the...
Home Automation
August Expands Selection, Adds HomeKit, August Access Service
August expanded its selection of smart home-access products, added its first Apple Home-Kit-enabled product, and launched August Access service, which lets service personnel enter...
Home Automation
Lutron Adds New Keypads, Remote Access To Custom Lighting Systems
Lutron is adding new features and new dimmer and keypad options to its RadioRA 2 and HomeWorks QS series of custom-installed lighting-control systems, including...
Home Automation
Sonos To Open Up API To Simplify Integration With Smart Home Systems
Wireless multiroom-audio pioneer Sonos will open up its API to make it easier for home-automation suppliers to integrate with Sonos speakers and soundbars without...
Home Automation
Thieves And Storms Won’t Be Able To Silence Alarm.com’s LTE Voice
Alarm.com is expanding the capabilities of its LTE-connected security and home-automation system with the launch of Voice-over-LTE (VoLTE). With VoLTE service, homeowners get hands-free...
Home Automation
CEDIA Expo: Crestron Sticking With High-End Luxury Market
Crestron will keep its foot firmly planted in the luxury high end of the custom-install market even though competitors are moving into the mass...
Home Automation
CEDIA Expo: iPort Turns To iPads For Retrofit Home-Control Installs
iPort, one of a trio of custom-install brands from Dana Innovations, is turning iPads into surface-mount on-wall controllers for home-automation and multiroom-audio systems that...
Home Automation
CEDIA Expo: Control4’s New OS Adds Security, Audio Features
Control4 greeted CEDIA Expo attendees today with the OS2.8 version of its home-control operating system, which adds a completely revamped user interface, new security...
Home Automation
CEDIA Expo: Gesture Control, Wi-Fi Door Locks & Doorbells Arrive From Fibaro, LockState, White Rabbit
Home automation systems controlled by gesture, a Wi-Fi /video doorbell that controls electronic locks, and a smart hub that replaces security panels are among...
Home Automation
CEDIA Expo: RTI Shows First Z-Wave Lighting Control Products
RTIis launching the first Z-Wave lighting products under its RTI and Pro Control brands at this week’s CEDIA Expo. The company is also launching...
Home Automation
CEDIA Expo: Wireless Tops List Of URC’s Home-Control Launches
URC is going to the CEDIA Expo with new one- and two-way remotes, a new wireless Z-Wave gateway, and new SKUs for the company’s...
Audio
NHT, DaVinci, Dynaudio, Madison Fielding Bringing Speakers To CEDIA Expo
Speaker suppliers are bringing something for everyone at this week’s CEDIA Expo with new products ranging from Dolby Atmos-enabled speakers to outdoor planter speakers...
Home Automation
CEDIA Expo: Clare To Stress End-User Control, Affordability
Clare Controls said it will give homeowners more control over their home-automation systems and bring its home-automation solutions to a lower price point when...
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...
Home Automation
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....
Home Automation
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...
CES-2016
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...
Home Automation
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...