Nationwide Marketing Group partners with retail activation firm Gorrie to create simplified in-store smart home experiences for showrooms.
Jason Knott
Jason Knott is Data Solutions Architect and Evangelist for D-Tools. He is the former Editor-in-Chief of CE Pro. He can be reached at [email protected].
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Bravas Adds New Location in Austin, Texas
Luxury market-focused Bravas adds first new location in Austin, Texas, since national rollup of 13 leading integrators last August.
Digging into Vivint’s Staggering Raw Numbers
Newly public Vivint Smart Home reveals $1.2B in 2019 revenue, 1.5M subscribers, margins at 40.6%, $66 in RMR per subscriber and 15 devices per installation.
ADT 2019 Revenue Up 12%; 3G Upgrades to Cost $150M
ADT plans more proactive approach to 3G Sunset, while expecting to spend $150 million in 2020 swapping out cellular communicators.
Channeling Mr. Spock: Are $200 Installs Coming?
Integrators may have expected serious downward pricing pressures now that smart homes are more mainstream, but so far the industry has defied all logic.
Bowers & Wilkins Shakes Up Executive Leadership
CEO Gideon Yu and president Greg Lee have resigned from Bowers & Wilkins, which will now be totally independent from EVA Automation.
NYC Boys & Girls Club Receives $1 Million Tech Infusion
Why and how AV Design & Integration took on the commercial project installing $1M in technology for the Madison Square Boys & Girls Club in Harlem.
Selling Home Theater in the Netflix Era
Anamorphic lens technology eliminates the tedium of manually having to change aspect ratios due to wide variety of source content from streaming video.
Best Buy’s Strong Growth Driven by In-Home Service Success
Posting 12 straight quarters of growth, Best Buy conducts 250,000 free in-home consultations in FY2020. Total Tech Support hits 2.3M subscribers.
PantryOn Smart Shelf Offers Unique Kitchen Upsell
The $599 PantryOn smart pantry shelf for kitchens and refrigerators automatically tracks food usage by weight.
Legislation Restricts Data Sharing by Smart Home Devices
Pennsylvania legislation would require smart home device manufacturers to get opt-in permission from consumers to share their data.
Access Networks Branded Stackable Switches Hit the Market
Access Networks’ ANX 7150 enterprise-grade switch series replaces the Ruckus ICX Switch Series previous offered by the networking company.
