In the ensuing silence, you may miss an opportunity to be the customer’s go-to home technology professional and fail to earn some potential revenue. Therefore, it may be time to catch up on those other residential topics that sometimes elude home systems professionals.
In this edition of Home Technology Now, Ric shares his ideas and experiences about the lighting market, including how integrators can get involved in it.
As the global association for the home technology industry, CEDIA works to provide you with tools and content that will help you to take on those residential projects.
At this time, we would like to take the opportunity to introduce you to a new resource that can help you learn more about all of those residential topics, our new and improved website. The new cedia.net delivers robust content and tools aimed to help home technology professionals in every aspect of their business.
It is an exciting time for many custom installers, but is one that shouldn’t be taken lightly as we are in a state of hyper change.
January 14, 2014
As 2014 dawns, it is an exciting time for many custom installers, but is one that shouldn’t be taken lightly as we are in a state of hyper change. Careful planning and knowledge are required for those looking to sell and service custom electronic products. In order to do that you must become the technology expert.
More than three-fourths of security installation companies are either installing or planning to install distributed audio and video in the next 24 months
If you are not dipping into additional installations in the home, then you may be left in the dust — and if you are trying to break into this side of the industry, then you may find yourself with many questions.
It has become clear recently that deploying high-performance and reliable wireless networks is a bit of a pain point for integrators. While I believe a physical cable offers higher performance and reliability, there simply are too many products designed to rely solely on wireless in today’s mobile-device-centric world for integrators to solve problems by running new cables.
Have you ever had a client ask if you could set up a control system for other areas in the house? It’s a growing market, so if you have not been asked about control options yet, chances are you will be asked at some point.
Coming from an industry that has a strong background in high-performance audio systems, talking about “wireless speakers” among peers has traditionally been viewed akin to using a four-letter word during a religious service.
As we get into the mid-summer months, you may find your focus shifting from indoor projects to outdoor projects; the same is likely true for your clients.