Home Automation / Entertainment - Articles - Page 8

State of the Market: Connected Home 2016

The connected home space is one of “activity but uncertainty” today. The security industry holds the advantage right now, with a built-in revenue model and expertise in integration; but the challenge will be not losing that edge as outside competition starts to figure it out.

Karyn Hodgson

August 3, 2016

Talking about the connected home today can be a challenge when you are faced with the question “What is the connected home?”

Q&A With Liberty Security’s Russell Keddie Helping People Thrive

Keddie describes Edmonton-based Liberty Security as a company that stays true to its value of ‘people before profits.’

Laura Stepanek

July 22, 2016

Russell Keddie is a managing partner at Liberty Security who believes empowering the customer is a key to success.

Design & Construction Week to Feature CEDIA Smart Home Pavilion

July 20, 2016

The NAHB International Builders’ Show (IBS) and the NKBA Kitchen & Bath Industry Show (KBIS) announced a new strategic partnership with CEDIA to be part of the 2017 Design & Construction Week.

Trade Show News: CEDIA 2016

July 19, 2016

CEDIA 2016 is approaching, and registration is now open at Cedia.net/show. This year’s conference will once again be at the Kay Bailey Hutchison Convention Center in Dallas, September 13-17.

CEDIA Chooses SecurityCEU.com’s Training to Offer Security Courses to Members

July 8, 2016

In a continuing effort to stay at the cutting edge of technology for the connected home with its relationship to the integrated security, fire and life safety market, CEDIA, has partnered with SecurityCEU.com to launch an enhanced training program for their entire membership.

Technology Partner Program Lights Up With Iluminar

July 7, 2016

Arecont Vision announced that Iluminar, a leading manufacturer of IR and white light illumination products, joined the Arecont Vision Technology Partner Program.

Companies You Should Know: HAUS

Tim A. Scally

July 7, 2016

Several years ago, current HAUS CEO David Daniels and partners Mike Thul and John Carlin noticed that almost every industry except for consumer electronics has one or more embedded organizations designed to train members within the industry to run their businesses more efficiently.

Access Credentials For a Connected World

Industry heavyweights discuss recent trends and where access control credentials are headed next.

Karyn Hodgson

July 7, 2016

The access control credential has for a long time been “stuck” — at least in the U.S. — on one particular technology: proximity.

SDM Sidebar

Connected Home Protocols: Apples & Androids or Beta & VHS?

Karyn Hodgson

July 4, 2016

A connected home cannot happen without the protocol or language to make everything work together.

Alarm.com to Acquire 2 Icontrol Units, Comcast to Acquire Icontrol’s Converge Platform

June 22, 2016

Alarm.com Holdings Inc. has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire two business units, Connect and Piper, from Icontrol Networks for $140 million, and Comcast has agreed to acquire Icontrol’s Converge software platform.