Acquisition will enable Savant to offer high-performance whole-house audio, home theater and audio over IP solutions via Artison products, patents. Terms of the deal were not disclosed.

The first home theater install with Barco's residential Loki Cinemascope 4K laser projector took four years to complete and tripled in budget along the way. Savant control, Dolby Atmos and DTS:X complete the project.

Savant dealers can monitor their clients’ networks and home automation systems remotely with Ihiji Network Appliance and Invision software.

Opinion: After acquiring SnapAV, private equity giant Hellman & Friedman likely will follow up with 'transformational transaction' that disrupts home-technology landscape: Control4? Savant? Core Brands? Interlogix? PlumChoice?

The access control category has exploded. Control4 nearly triples its total, while Savant does triple its tally.

Not surprisingly, Amazon’s Alexa dominates the voice control market, followed by Apple's Siri, Savant, Google and Comcast.