Toshiba Corp., Tokyo, bolstered its smart-grid operations with the purchase of the Swiss electronic-metering company Landis+Gyr AG for $2.3 billion in cash and assumed debt.
The sale is pending regulatory approvals, the companies said in a statement, but should be completed in three months.
The Custom Electronic Design & Installation Association (CEDIA) tells smartHOME that Tim Costello, chairman and chief executive officer of Builder Homesite, and New Home Technologies, will deliver the keynote address at CEDIA EXPO 2011 during the Annual Keynote Breakfast, Friday, Sept. 9 at 8:30 a.m.
Lighting control manufacturer Lutron Electronics, Coopersburg, Pa., boasts “A Night of Light,” a series of free, national networking events held at Lutron Experience Centers throughout the country.
Home Automation, Inc. (HAI), New Orleans, a manufacturer of integrated automation and security products since 1985, announced that integration has been finalized between HAI Omni and Lumina Family control systems and VIVOTEK IP surveillance solutions.
The Custom Electronic Design & Installation Association (CEDIA), Indianapolis, released key findingsfrom its 2011 Benchmarking Survey, which evaluates the state of the CEDIA member electronic systems contractor businesses for calendar year 2010 and reports on 2011 expectations. Results from the survey indicate that companies are beginning to see some relief from the economic downturn; respondents anticipate their number of projects new opportunities for growth to increase in 2011.
In today’s constantly shifting economic times and rapid technology advancements, it is critical for integrators to gain new skills and new knowledge.To achieve such societal needs for installed technologies, companies must continually invest in employee education and training activities. Many installers obtain industry certifications from ESPA, CEDIA, ETA International, InfoComm and others to show their knowledge of skills. This opens up for additional training to earn Continuing Education Units (CEUs) or additional certifications.
For a company that helped pioneer technology for transmitting uncompressed high definition (HD) video with one wire over long distances, you can see pride and excitement in its news that Crestron’s third-generation technology, called DigitalMedia 8G+, enables transmission of uncompressed 1080p/60 digital video up to 330 feet using standard unshielded CAT5e wire.
When the darling of Wall Street and geeks took the stage at the early June Apple Worldwide Developers Conference, Steve Jobs' message was to embrace the cloud. What he called a “breakthrough,” Jobs walked through a multi-media presentation on his firm’s iCloud, a set of free services that work seamlessly with applications on consumers’ iPhone, iPad, iPod touch, Mac or PC so that users can automatically and wirelessly store content in iCloud and automatically and wirelessly push it to all types of devices.
Shipments of home automation systems will total about 1.8 million worldwide this year. And, according to ABI Research of Scottsdale, Ariz., that will set to rise sharply soon, exceeding 12 million in 2016.
Indianapolis-based Custom Electronic Design & Installation Association (CEDIA) released a new white paper — Network Security Best Practices. The document covers best practices for implementing wireless local area network (WLAN) security in a residential environment based on the IEEE 802.11x and 802.3 standards.
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