This year the editors compiled the top stories of the year as featured in SDM’s various e-newsletters. Below are the top 10 stories as featured on our website and delivered to you through SDM e-news and Today’s Systems Integrator e-news.

Parks Associates’ new complimentary white paper on IoT home safety and fire prevention solutions examines issues surrounding electrical fires in U.S. homes and consumer demand for fire prevention products and services.

Nortek Security & Control released a new line of ELAN architectural speakers, the ELAN 400 Series, 600 Series and 800 Series speakers — 15 new models in all.

H-P Products’ COLTRING and Flex Connect, used together, can reduce a lengthy central vac install job to just minutes.

It was almost two years ago when I wrote my first Smart Insights article touting the arrival of the smart home and likening the elements of the smart home to pieces of a puzzle that needed to be solved. Since then, that market certainly has exploded. The smart home and smart office are here to stay.

Some folks may not know it but I started my own integration business, The Automation Link Inc. (TALI), in 1989 and put on the side of my van, “The Leader in Home Automation.” I was 20 years ahead of my time.

Vector Security Inc., ranked No. 4 on the SDM 100, recently debuted its new storefront concept in Canfield, Ohio. The location is home to the company’s largest installed customer base in that state.

CEDIA announced the 2018 finalists for the Home Technology Professional Awards competition. The CEDIA Awards honor the top projects completed by home technology professional members in the past year.