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CellBounce Solves Massive 3G/CDMA Sunset Problem for Alarm Industry
Top security and home-automation execs back CellBounce, reportedly the only DIY solution for upgrading 3G/CDMA alarm panels without a truck roll.
Selling from the Field: Why Isn’t it a ‘Thing’?
Technologists in the field could be the best sales and customer-experience assets in a home-tech company. Are you exploiting them?
Yamaha, MusicCast Join SnapAV OvrC Ecosystem with ‘Deep Integration’
SnapAV to distribute and integrate Yamaha A/V receivers, amps, wireless speakers, soundbar, CD player and MusicCast networking platform.
Control4, Crestron, Savant Top Home-Automation Charts – CE Pro 100 Brand Analysis 2019
Julie Jacobson analyzes data from CE Pro 100 Brand Surveys in the home-automation category, from 2014 to 2019.
IES vs. UL and the Battle Over Circadian Lighting ‘Standards’
Who should set standards for human-centered (circadian) lighting? Illuminating Engineering Society blasts UL for publishing Recommended Practice “without the full rigor of an ANSI approved Standard.”
Nortek Security & Control President Mike O’Neal Departs; NSC Begins Search
Mike O’Neal, president of Nortek Security & Control, departs after eight years. He led Linear and 2Gig security and home-automation brands, oversaw merger with Nortek’s Core Brands.
Savant Shows HomeKit-Compatible Smart Circuit Breakers, Circadian Lighting
Home automation company shows HomeKit-enabled circuit breakers, smart bulbs, DMX LED lighting strips, human-centered lighting at Lightfair 2019.
ProSource: ‘Strange’ Market, 5G Glee, RMR Ambivalence, Marc Fisher Wins
The economy isn’t bad, just strange. 5G will be awesome, but so what? RMR isn’t ‘all that.’ Plus, lots of Marc Fisher, Legos and lighting at ProSource Spring Meeting 2019.
Control4, SnapAV CEO Interviews: Analyzing the Home Automation Merger
SnapAV’s acquisition of Control4 will create a one-stop shop for professionally installed home automation, A/V, networking, other home technologies: CEOs John Heyman, Martin Plaehn
Big SnapAV, Control4 Merger-Acquisition: 16 Questions from JJ
Just prior to interviewing SnapAV and Control4 CEOs, CE Pro’s Julie Jacobson offers up 16 questions about the merger/acquisition of two home-tech giants.
Four Great Ideas on Human Resources from Top Home-Tech Pros
Surveying the spouses of your employees?! ProSource members share a few offbeat but highly effective workforce initiatives.