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CE Pro’s Top 5 Home Tech Opportunities for 2011
Share your experiences, insights related to home videoconferencing, one-wire A/V, digital content concierge, aging in place, recurring revenue for remote home management.
Home videoconferencing and aging in place—all wrapped up in one. Image: New York Times
What will be the most compelling new opportunities for CE Pros in 2011? Every year, we narrow the list down to five technologies and markets that we believe hold promise for traditional residential integrators.
We glossed over seven such technologies during CE Pro Live earlier this month. (Download the presentation; registration required: Live Presentation, .pdf presentation)
In the January 2011 issue of CE Pro, we are featuring these 5 Technology Opportunities for CE Pros.
Integrators, please let us hear from you.
If you have thoughts or experience concerning any of these areas, let us know. Any installations? Requests from consumers? Sales or installation tips? Useful vendors?
Please email .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) to share your stories.
About the 5 Technologies
We spent quite a bit of effort last year on opportunities in streaming media and the seniors market, but we believe they’re important enough to include in our Top 5 this year since the buzz has escalated greatly.
We excluded smart energy this year because we think integrators are fairly on the ball in that area. There is still a lot to learn – and CE Pro will continue to preach on the matter – but we’re already in the groove. Also, we'll address energy management in the remote monitoring section.
Another area that deserves renewed attention this year is security, which is getting to be sexy again (the subject of my December editorial in CE Pro). We’ll roll that one into the remote home monitoring category as well.
Again, please let us hear from you (.(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)) over the Thanksgiving week, and let us know if and how you’re addressing these technology opportunities.
Learn more about CE Pro's Top 5 Home Tech Opportunities:
Electronic House Expo, March 17-19, 2011, Orlando, Fla.
We glossed over seven such technologies during CE Pro Live earlier this month. (Download the presentation; registration required: Live Presentation, .pdf presentation)
In the January 2011 issue of CE Pro, we are featuring these 5 Technology Opportunities for CE Pros.
- Consumer videoconferencing/telepresence
- Recurring revenue for remote home monitoring, management
- One-wire Cat 5 technology for whole-house audio, video, control
- Streaming media and the content concierge
- Aging in place/home health technology
Integrators, please let us hear from you.
If you have thoughts or experience concerning any of these areas, let us know. Any installations? Requests from consumers? Sales or installation tips? Useful vendors?
Please email .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) to share your stories.
About the 5 Technologies
We spent quite a bit of effort last year on opportunities in streaming media and the seniors market, but we believe they’re important enough to include in our Top 5 this year since the buzz has escalated greatly.
We excluded smart energy this year because we think integrators are fairly on the ball in that area. There is still a lot to learn – and CE Pro will continue to preach on the matter – but we’re already in the groove. Also, we'll address energy management in the remote monitoring section.
Another area that deserves renewed attention this year is security, which is getting to be sexy again (the subject of my December editorial in CE Pro). We’ll roll that one into the remote home monitoring category as well.
Again, please let us hear from you (.(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)) over the Thanksgiving week, and let us know if and how you’re addressing these technology opportunities.
Learn more about CE Pro's Top 5 Home Tech Opportunities:
Electronic House Expo, March 17-19, 2011, Orlando, Fla.
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Article Topics
Video · Digital Media · Multiroom Video · Wire and Cable · Structured Wiring · Recurring Revenue · Videoconference · Aging In Place · Content Concierge ·About the Author
Julie Jacobson, Editor-at-large, CE Pro
Julie Jacobson is co-founder of EH Publishing and currently spends most of her time writing for CE Pro, mostly in the areas of home automation, networked A/V and the business of home systems integration. She majored in Economics at the University of Michigan, earned an MBA from the University of Texas at Austin, and has never taken a journalism class in her life. Julie is a washed-up Ultimate Frisbee player with the scars to prove it. Follow her on Twitter @juliejacobson.
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