Home Automation
Video Doorbells: Smanos Smart Video Doorbell
TWICE VIP Award 2016 Winner! The Smanos Smart Video Doorbell is an all-new addition to the company’s smart home portfolio. The wireless, battery-powered doorbell...
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Wireless Door Locks: Kwikset Signature Series Motorized Deadbolts
TWICE VIP Award 2016 Winner! Utilizing the Kwikset single-cylinder deadbolt as its foundation, Signature Series Motorized Deadbolts are an ideal lock for the first-time...
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Pop & Switch: Logitech Simplifies Home Control (Again)
Logitech is corralling home control with the push of a button — and no, it’s not with a remote. The company has launched a...
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Smart Baby: Target Adds ‘Connected Nursery’ Sections
Target, an aggressive player in the smart-home category, has extended its IoT beachhead into baby products. The No. 2 discount chain has added Connected...
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Somfy Joins ZigBee Alliance
Somfy has joined the ZigBee Alliance at the Promoter level and accepted a seat on its board of directors. Somfy develops, manufactures and distributes...
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Amazon Adds Another Dash Of GE
GE Appliance, an early adherent of Amazon’s Dash automated reordering system, is about to bring some more products to the replenishment party. As a refresher,...
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Staples Unplugging From Staples Connect Smart-Home Platform
Updated! Staples is no longer selling Staples Connect, its proprietary smart-home platform. Instead, the No. 1 office supply chain and is handing off sales and...
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Is It A Dog Or The Delivery Man? Nest Cams Will Know
Nest Labs stepped into the great wide open with its newest security cam, the Nest Cam Outdoor. The Nest Cam Outdoor is essentially the...
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Wiser Air Smart Thermostat Will Remember Feedback
Schneider Electric’s smart thermostat is a little (more) wiser. The Wiser Air Wi-Fi smart thermostat has been updated with a new Eco IQ feature...
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Amazon’s Alexa Is Getting Even Smarter
Alexa has been busy. One year after Amazon opened up its personal digital assistant to developers, the disembodied voice of Echo, Dot, Tap and...
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Banks Race To Incorporate Amazon’s Alexa
“Alexa, pay my rent.” Citigroup said it is testing Amazon’s Alexa voice-command assistant as part of an upgrade to its mobile banking app. The...
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New Smart-Home Leak Detector Rules The Roost
Roost has expanded its smart-home portfolio with a leak and freeze detector. The company, which markets smart battery and smoke alarm products, adds the...
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Nest Now Selling Others’ ‘Works With Nest’ Smart-Home Devices
Nest has begun selling third-party smart-home products directly from its online store for the first time. All of the products carry the Works with...
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Bluetooth 5 Will Be Faster, Have Longer Range & Be Better For IoT
A new Bluetooth specification due late this year or early next will boost range, speed, and broadcast-message capacity to enhance Bluetooth’s capabilities in home-...
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Russound Plans Commercial Products; Rajeev Agarwal Returns As Engineering VP
Custom-audio supplier Russound is expanding into light-commercial products and building up its engineering capabilities on the eve of its 50th year in business. The...
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D-Link Jumps On Apple’s HomeKit Bandwagon
D-Link plans to launch its first smart-home product with Apple HomeKit certification, the company announced. The first product, due later this year, will be...
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Apple’s HomeKit Getting Smarter
Apple used yesterday’s Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) to smarten up its HomeKit home-automation platform, adding control of Wi-Fi security cameras, doorbells, air conditioners, and air...
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Logitech Takes Aim At Custom-Install Channel With Harmony Pro
Logitech unveiled its first product dedicated to the custom-install channel and said it will offer additional products in the coming months to meet installers’...
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Nortek Brands To Get A Voice Through Nuiku Acquisition
Nortek, the supplier of residential and commercial control and HVAC systems, made its second acquisition in as many months, this time purchasing a company...
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Google Unveils Smart Speaker, Android Wear Updates, Better VR
Virtual reality and Android Wear wearables starred at Google’s annual developers conference, where the company also unveiled its Google Home voice-controlled wireless speaker and...
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Parks: Many Smart-Home Products Used Daily
Consumer intentions to buy smart-home products jumped in less than two years, and many people who own a smart-home product use them daily, Parks...
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Nest Looks To Jump-Start Thread Standard With OpenThread
Nest introduced OpenThread today, an open-source reference code implementation of the Thread networking protocol. With OpenThread, Nest aims to make the wireless connection technology...
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Roost Enters Smart Smoke Alarm Business With RSA-400, RSA-200
Roost launched its first pair of smart smoke detectors following the CES 2016 launch of the Roost Smart Battery, which turns existing smoke alarms...
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Intraix’s Klug Adds Home Control To Any Wi-Fi Router
Singapore start-up Intraix wants you to turn an existing Wi-Fi router into a smart-home hub by plugging in a USB stick incorporating smart-home technology....
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Smart-Home Penetration Could Double In A Year, Survey Finds
Smart-home ownership could double to 30 million households in the next year, if a survey commissioned by August Home and Comcast Xfinity Home is...
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Why Get An Echo When You Can Get A Triby?
You can now talk to Alexa on a non-Amazon speaker. Invoxia, a speaker and telecom manufacturer, has launched the Triby, a magnetic portable Bluetooth...
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What The Future Of Smart-Home Voice Control Looks Like
Is voice control the new disruptor? With the popularity and visibility of Amazon’s Alexa, Apple’s Siri, Google Now and Microsoft’s Cortana, and by future...
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Legrand Buying Luxul Wireless To Tap Into Pro-Grade Network Growth
Home- and commercial-automation supplier Legrand signed a definitive agreement to buy Luxul Wireless, the supplier of pro-grade IP-network products to residential and commercial integrators....
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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...
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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...
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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,...
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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...
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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...