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The latest news, insights and opinions on home automation technology and design.
For our latest posts, we have complied three emerging technology companies that are seeking to change the way people live and interact with their surroundings. Welle “World’s first sonar based gesture control gadget that can make any surface interactive.” Welle is a smart device that instantly turns any surface into a smart controller using embedded Sonar and a highly sensitive …
Crestron’s latest product, a 5 inch portrait touch screen, provides a compact design to control residential technology. In locations that may not require in-depth control of audio and video, the 5 inch portrait screen is very useful while not taking up much room on a wall. The most common places where these touch screen could be used are door entry …
Wikipedia defines an audiophile as a person enthusiastic about high-fidelity sound reproduction. It continues to explain, audiophile values may be applied at all stages of music reproduction: the initial audio recording, the production process, and the playback, which is usually in a home setting. A key goal of audiophiles is to capture the experience of a live musical performance in a …
Crestron is known for their award winning home automation products and solutions that provide the highest levels of technology integration design. Crestron’s latest technology design service came earlier this month when they announced their Color Match capabilities, allowing Crestron motorized roller shades to be available in any color that customers desire by simply providing a Pantone® color code or physical …
Bang & Olufsen is known for making incredibly designed speakers, but its latest model, the modular BeoSound Shape, might be the one of their best designs yet. The unique wall-mounted modular design is based around a series of individual hexagonal tiles – behind each removable grille you’ll find either an amplifier, smart hub, speaker or acoustic dampers – that seamlessly …
Comcast’s Xfinity TV application launched into beta back in February on Roku, offering both live and on-demand programming, including local broadcast stations as well as public access and government channels. However, this isn’t really an app for cord cutters, at least for the time being. To use the app, most Comcast customers will have to subscribe to both Xfinity TV and Xfinity’s internet service. …
Innovation in TV design is moving away from the dark and sleek to something more versatile. Samsung recently announced more details surrounding its newest innovation – “The Frame”. Teased at CES 2017, The Frame was curated with an artful approach meant to elevate any room or viewing environment. Based on new innovative technology, The Frame looks like a picture frame …
Over the past six months voice control has made a major splash with home automation manufacturers integrating Amazon’s voice control application, Alexa, with their devices. But not everyone thinks the future of communicating with the Internet of Things will be via voice. For example, Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg, recently designed Jarvis, his own voice-powered AI home automation, and discovered he preferred communicating …
Crestron, earlier this week, announced they are now shipping their new wireless lighting control solution, Zūm. The new product line is engineered to make the setup and management of lighting control, in virtually any space, easy and more affordable. Wireless dimmers, switchers, sensors and other components are part of the new product line. Centralized building-wide lighting control can be deployed using the …
A new report from Juniper Research, a research and analytical firm that services the global hi-tech communications sector, forecasts that smart home automation and monitoring devices will grow to over 770 million globally by 2021, representing an eleven-fold rise from just 68 million estimated in 2016. The new research, Smart Home Markets: Entertainment, Monitoring, Automation, Health, Metering, Appliances 2017-2021, found …