The Z-Wave Alliance, an organization with more than 325 members in smart home and IoT industries, named CEDIA board member Mitchell Klein as its new executive director.
Post-downturn, home builders that traditionally eschewed technology are waking up to a ‘new’ reality and embracing home control and automation in a big way.
Homeowners are looking to the security market for more than keeping the bad guys out; they want integrated access control and video packages that will help them manage their residences, even when no one is home.
Motivational writer Napoleon Hill wrote in his 1937 bestseller, Think and Grow Rich, that “You are the master of your destiny. You can influence, direct and control your own environment. You can make your life what you want it to be.” Fast-forward several decades and one could apply that same quote with a few liberties; for example, swap destiny, environment and life with the word “home” to describe what technology can do for the residential security market.
Vienna, Va.-based Alarm.com, a platform solution for the connected home, announced availability of its Amazon Fire TV app. It allows Alarm.com’s millions of users to quickly view live HD video streams from around their home.
A brand new report by Argus Insights, Los Gatos, Calif., states that while home automation was gaining attention and experiencing robust growth in 2014, the sector is now “quickly losing steam.”
Sales opportunity or unlikely fad? Smart clothes, smart jewelry, and smart watches can integrate with PERS, security systems, and connected home systems.
Zonoff Inc., Malvern, Pa., has a mission to make the Internet of Things come alive in the home by becoming a common platform enabling all wireless standards to communicate with each other. That includes security systems.