CE Pro’s Julie Jacobson conjures up “the big story” on new Amazon Smart Security Services, including an army of licensed alarm installers, Amazon’s own central monitoring station, Ring and Zonoff-inspired smart-home services, Amazon Key and more. (Spoiler: She was wrong.)
While vendors pour all their energy into fixing “the big ones” like dealer margins, they fail to notice customers drifting away over easy-to-fix annoyances like inconvenient office hours and out-of-date spec sheets.
Beyond the pretty face, Crestron’s new TSR-310 touchscreen remote boasts some of the best tweaks in the biz, like fast Wi-Fi wake-up, “flawless” voice control and optimized backlighting, says ADAPT’s Troy Morgan.
So far this year, home-tech buying group ProSource has welcomed 12 new members to its roster of ‘Power Dealers’, adding $49 million in buying power to the organization. Where do these dealers come from?
At ISC West 2018, Nortek Security & Control (NSC) demonstrated new Elan IP cameras and NVRs, integrated with Elan home automation system and 2Gig security – a first in the home-control category.
ISC West 2018: SnapAV pitches OvrC to alarm dealers, a smart lock for newlyweds, neat fire-protection system that could spawn a category … and more security and home automation from Vegas.
ISC West 2018 teems with new security and home-automation products highlighting trends in video surveillance & analtyics, AI-enabled alarm sensors, assisted-DIY solutions and more. CE Pro’s Julie Jacobson has it here.
All those rich people who purchase smart-home systems and big TVs on Amazon … are they “not your customers anyway” or do they just want a simple buying experience, a la Uber and Amazon?
Integrators complain about big-picture issues like margin and market saturation, but also seemingly small things like: ‘They do not put all the parts in the box.’
Way beyond a “distribution deal,” the partnership between Lutron and SnapAV is an ambitious effort to expand the lighting-control universe, and to extend the ecosystem of OvrC-enabled managed services for the home-technology channel.
Sonos patent application describes how biometric data like perspiration, pulse or tone of voice could inform an audio system to play music or other content that is most conducive to the listener’s well being.
Azione Unlimited, a buying group for home-technology pros, adds another DIY vendor to the roster — Google Home — shortly after Sonos joins the group.
