All items tagged with home networking (12)

LG Acquires Dutch Startup Athom to Accelerate its AI-Enabled Smart-Home Ecosystem

July 9, 2024 by Joao Martins

LG Acquires Dutch Startup Athom to Accelerate its AI-Enabled Smart-Home Ecosystem

The story was out for a few days, but now it's officially confirmed that LG Electronics recently acquired an 80 percent stake in Athom, the Dutch smart home company based in Enschede, Netherlands. Known for its Homey smart home platform, the startup was struggling and lacked the scale that LG will provide. The agreement includes plans for LG to acquire the remaining 20 percent within the next three years. LG will maintain Athom as a separate operation, while expanding its own open smart home ecosystems globally.

Renesas Lays Out Roadmap for Wi-Fi 6/6E and 7 Chipsets

November 18, 2022 by Joao Martins

Renesas Lays Out Roadmap for Wi-Fi 6/6E and 7 Chipsets

During the electronica 2022 show in Munich, Germany, Renesas Electronics unveiled plans to deliver a comprehensive set of advanced Wi-Fi offerings to complement its broad portfolio of industrial and connected products. In 2021, Renesas completed its acquisition of Celeno, a company from Israel specializing in wireless communication solutions, including advanced Wi-Fi chipsets for high-performance home networks, and is leveraging that technology to address a wide range WLAN access point applications for Wi-Fi 6/6E and Wi-Fi 7.

AURALiC Announces New ALTAIR G1.1 and ARIES G1.1 Music Streamers

July 26, 2022 by Joao Martins

AURALiC Announces New ALTAIR G1.1 and ARIES G1.1 Music Streamers

Originating in Beijing, China, AURALiC is the company that managed to make innovative digital and analog components for the home networking aficionados - and not for cheap. The company builds products that make listening to digital streaming and high-resolution music a fun hobby, particularly for those who want all the options. AURALiC now announced updated ARIES G1.1 and ALTAIR G1.1 music streamers, improving on existing models by adding Apple AirPlay 2.

More Than 5.5 Billion Smart Home Matter-Compliant Devices Forecasted to Ship Between 2022 and 2030

February 9, 2022 by audioXpress Staff

More Than 5.5 Billion Smart Home Matter-Compliant Devices Forecasted to Ship Between 2022 and 2030

Still months from its completion, the Matter smart home specification is already driving new products and strategies across the smart home and consumer electronics market. With a host of major players, technology suppliers, and partners already pledged to delivering Matter compliant offerings, the specification is expected to dominate the smart home landscape within five years, according to a new report from market intelligence firm ABI Research.

MaxLinear WAV600 Series-2 Chipset Selected for Wi-Fi Alliance Wi-Fi 6 Release 2 Certification Test Bed

January 6, 2022 by Cristina Costa

MaxLinear WAV600 Series-2 Chipset Selected for Wi-Fi Alliance Wi-Fi 6 Release 2 Certification Test Bed

MaxLinear, the provider of radio frequency (RF), analog, digital and mixed-signal integrated circuits, headquartered in Carlsbad, California, announced that their WAV600 Series-2 Chipset SoCs have been selected as access point test bed devices for the Wi-Fi Alliance Wi-Fi CERTIFIED 6 Release 2 certification process. The test bed uses a MaxLinear WAV615 and two MaxLinear WAV665 Wi-Fi Transceiver SoCs to enable tri-band interoperability testing at 2.4GHz, 5GHz, and 6GHz, delivering on performance and increased network capacity.

Wi-Fi Alliance Expands Home Wi-Fi with Certified Solutions

February 12, 2021 by audioXpress Staff

Wi-Fi Alliance Expands Home Wi-Fi with Certified Solutions

The Wi-Fi Alliance announced that its Wi-Fi Easy Connect and Wi-Fi EasyMesh solutions will evolve to drive superior home network experiences. Wi-Fi Certified Easy Connect and Wi-Fi Certified EasyMesh now deliver more secure, smart, and efficient Wi-Fi home networks. New features available for Wi-Fi Easy Connect now enable zero touch, secure provisioning of devices onto home networks, while additions to Wi-Fi EasyMesh increase Wi-Fi network capacity, support more simultaneous services, and deliver end-to-end service prioritization.

Communications and Residential Installation in audioXpress October 2020

September 11, 2020 by audioXpress Staff

Communications and Residential Installation in audioXpress October 2020

The October 2020 edition of audioXpress is now available online and in print. This is one of the most feature-rich issues we have ever published, with a residential installation Market Update, a new article series about Analog Devices A2B, two articles about communications, including an article by Manfred Lutzky (Fraunhofer IIS) on codecs, plus a great review of the GeerFab Audio D.BOB Digital Breakout Box by Gary Galo. Plus three DIY-oriented articles and our regular expert columns on acoustics, tubes, and audio electronics.

CEDIA 2019 Show Report: Residential Integration in the Age of the Connected Home

September 19, 2019 by Joao Martins

CEDIA 2019 Show Report: Residential Integration in the Age of the Connected Home

While I visited the exhibits at the excellent Colorado Convention Center during the 2019 CEDIA Expo in Denver, I was frequently asked about my impressions of the show - but often it was as if people were asking me to validate their own negative impressions - because "this industry has seen better days...", and "the show is smaller than ever." I saw the show in a different perspective, which I will address in this report.

Increasing Demand for High Throughput Home Wi-Fi Networks Drives Wi-Fi 6 Deployments

September 19, 2019 by audioXpress Staff

Increasing Demand for High Throughput Home Wi-Fi Networks Drives Wi-Fi 6 Deployments

Increasing worldwide broadband penetration, combined with the adoption of multiple connected devices, bandwidth-intensive, and low latency applications in each household is continuously driving the demand for efficient Wi-Fi Consumer Premises Equipment (CPE) devices. Global tech market advisory firm, ABI Research, forecasts that the Wi-Fi CPE market, including routers, gateways, whole-home mesh systems, access points, and Wi-Fi extenders will generate 221 million unit shipments in 2019.

Luxul Introduces High-Performance Networking Solutions for the Smart Home at CEDIA Expo 2019

September 17, 2019 by audioXpress Staff

Luxul Introduces High-Performance Networking Solutions for the Smart Home at CEDIA Expo 2019

Luxul, the IP networking solutions brand, part of Legrand's portfolio for AV integrators, announced a strong technology lineup at CEDIA Expo 2019 (September 12-14). With residential integration increasingly relying in wired and wireless networking solutions, Luxul provides a complete range of equipment that bridges the needs of home entertainment systems and the wider range of smart home technologies. At CEDIA 2019, Luxul introduced next-generation wireless solutions, a cloud remote management system, user control apps and dealer tools.

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