Articles Tagged with ''smart homes''

A new 2,000-square-foot, two-story home is being built inside The Helix innovation center by Emerson Climate Technologies to serve as a working laboratory, enabling faster testing of future innovations in comfort, energy savings, and connected home concepts.

On Controls, a provider of cloud-based smart home and commercial control solutions for professional installers, has announced the appointment of three U.S. independent sales firms along with three international distributors in important European markets.

Thermostats and controls are at the forefront of the connected home charge, and homeowners or facility managers may now control the climates within individual rooms from a million miles away, courtesy of their mobile devices.

EcoNet Controls announced it has received “Works with SmartThings” approval for its EV100 series of Z-Wave wireless HVAC vents. SmartThings, a Samsung company, is building an open platform for smart homes and the consumer Internet of Things.

The ZigBee Alliance and the Thread Group announced they are collaborating to enable the ZigBee Cluster Library to run over Thread networks. By working together, ZigBee and Thread can jointly provide an interoperable solution to help streamline product development and improve the consumer’s experience in the connected home.

ABB, Robert Bosch GmbH, and Cisco Systems Inc. have announced the formation of an international joint venture called mozaiq operations GmbH to develop and operate an open-software platform for smart homes. The companies said the platform will help to unify today’s stand-alone solutions for home automation. 

Shortly after Google purchased Nest Labs in January 2014, home energy management stakeholders began reporting increased market activity, as the acquisition signaled to vendors, utilities, service providers, and retailers that the value in home energy management was finally gaining recognition, notes Navigant Research.

The global smart homes market is expected to grow at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 17 percent between 2015 and 2020, and reach $58.68 billion by 2020, according to a new market research report published by MarketsandMarkets.

The concept of a “connected home” has been working its way into the public consciousness for decades, and the hype and buzz surrounding that premise is now starting to reach a fever pitch as potential began giving way to reality at the 2015 AHR Expo in Chicago.

Vivint, a leading provider of smart home technology, announced that CEO Todd Pedersen will be featured on the season finale of CBS’s TV series “Undercover Boss,” Friday, Feb. 20 (8 to 9 p.m., ET/PT).