Parks Associates announced Alarm.com, Comcast, Control4, KB Home and Lennar will be the keynote speakers at the 23rd annual CONNECTIONS: The Premier Connected Home Conference. The research firm also announced the agenda for the conference, which will take place May 21-23, 2019, at the Hyatt Regency San Francisco.

Control4 Corporation, a global provider of smart home solutions, announced the debut of the Control4 Tiny Smart Home, a compact, 250-square-foot smart home designed to give architects, builders and designers an interactive, design-forward smart technology experience at Design Construction Week 2019 at IBS in Control4 booth SU443.

Qolsys, a provider of security and smart home technology, announced that the Qolsys IQ Panel 2 Plus was selected by D.R. Horton Inc. to provide the hub for its “Home is Connected” solution. 

Comcast announced the national launch of Xfinity xFi Advanced Security, a new artificial intelligence-powered service that monitors, blocks and informs customers of online threats to connected devices, and provides seamless digital protection for those devices when connected to their home network.

Nortek Security & Control’s two new intelligent and interactive ELAN touch panels leverage face recognition and voice control to deliver more personalization options than ever for controlling the connected smart home.

Centralite Systems Inc., a manufacturer of reliable, wirelessly connected devices based on the Zigbee home automation platform, announced that its 3-Series Micro Motion Sensor and Micro Door Sensor have been certified to work with Echo Plus, Amazon’s popular voice assistant. 

Home8, a provider of video-verified connected devices for safety, security, and home automation, has agreed to provide Marantec America with Home8’s popular Video-Verified ActionView garage door control relay system as a complement to Marantec’s flagship line of garage door openers. 

Nortek Security & Control’s two new intelligent and interactive ELAN touch panels leverage face recognition and voice control to deliver more personalization options than ever for controlling the connected smart home.

The word smart has been partnered with high-tech for many decades. I remember Inspector Gadget and his handy Swiss Army-like devices. Or what about The Jetsons and their time-saving contraptions to help them get dressed? And the old TV show, Get Smart, with a wireless phone in the bottom of a shoe? And of course, the smart home.

Legrand North and Central America announced the creation of its new Residential Custom Integration business to support custom integrators in the home technology space.