The thermostat in Colleen Lunden’s Upland condominium knows to turn itself on at 4:45 a.m. to warm up the house for her husband, Chris, an early riser, then to power down until she’s ready to get up at a more reasonable hour. Later in the day, Lunden’s office computer shows her a live feed from Continue reading →
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Home Automation, Inc. (HAI), leading manufacturer of integrated security and home automation products since 1985, announced that their wireless energy management suite has been certified as a golden unit for ZigBee ® Smart Energy Profile 1.1. ZigBee Smart Energy Profile 1.1 is the newest version available for product development, and supports the diverse needs of Continue reading →
Vivint, one of the largest home automation companies in North America, is partnering with Tendril, the provider of the cloud platform for the Energy Internet, to connect Vivint Go!Control smart home devices with Tendril’s home energy management technology. via Utah Business | Articles.
Startup iControl, which specializes in home automation and energy management tools, has raised $50 million from Intel Capital, Kleiner Perkins, Comcast Ventures, Rogers Communication and others to bring the total raised to date to over $100 million. The question now is how and when consumers get excited about it. via IControl Raises $50 Million More Continue reading →
Dinner is in the oven. A grocery list has been generated after surveying the empty pantry. The front door’s been opened for the deliveryman and the authorities have been alerted of a possible intruder on a neighbor’s property. Sounds like a fairly normal day. Except each one of these tasks has been miles away from Continue reading →
Fraunhofer IWES (Germany) presents the OGEMA Alliance, which will offer an open software platform for energy management. More than 40% of the final energy consumption in Germany is related to buildings. Heating, cooling, domestic hot water supply and the operation of electrical appliances are the areas with the highest demand – electric vehicles are expected Continue reading →
Synapse Wireless, a provider of Internet-enabled, wireless machine-to-machine, or “M2M,” communication systems is embracing the OpenHAN specifications for the advancement of smart grid home automation networks. Wade Patterson, CEO of Synapse, said that the company currently has an auto-forming, multi-hop, mesh network, software system that brings interoperability to the Internet using existing standards. “We have Continue reading →
Home Automation, Inc. (HAI), leading manufacturer of integrated security and home automation products since 1985, announced the production of several Load Control Modules (LCMs) as part of their Smart Grid Solutions product line. HAI’s new family of LCMs allows utility customers to control a wide variety of high consumption devices ranging from water heaters and Continue reading →
