All items tagged with smart home (222)
Strategy Analytics Forecasts 17 Billion Smart Home Devices in Use Worldwide by 2030
August 8, 2019 by audioXpress Staff

Strategy Analytics Forecasts 17 Billion Smart Home Devices in Use Worldwide by 2030

The success of Wi-Fi technology is confirmed in new research from Strategy Analytics showing that nearly five billion home Wi-Fi devices are now in use around the world. The company's latest report predicts that a new wave of Wi-Fi smart home devices is about to drive adoption towards a total of 17 billion home devices in use worldwide by 2030, cementing the Wireless Home as one of the leading technology trends of the early 21st century.
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SnapAV and Control4 Combine to Transform Global Smart Home Industry
August 1, 2019 by audioXpress Staff

SnapAV and Control4 Combine to Transform Global Smart Home Industry

As announced in May 2019, SnapAV, a leading provider of A/V, surveillance, networking and remote management products for professionals, and Control4 Corporation, the smart home solutions company, announced the successful completion of their merger. Unified into a single organization, Control4 becomes a professional smart home brand in the SnapAV portfolio. The combined company promises to expand investments in solutions and services for technology professionals.
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Audio Collaborative 2019: Content & Technology Evolution Spurring Innovation
July 15, 2019 by audioXpress Staff

Audio Collaborative 2019: Content & Technology Evolution Spurring Innovation

Promoted every year by market research firm Futuresource Consulting, Audio Collaborative is a premier must attend event for consumer audio, pro audio and entertainment industry professionals. The event returns to London for the sixth time, November 7, 2019, with a full day of invaluable insights, expert discussions and networking opportunities. There are more key industry executives attending, more high-profile companies sponsoring and getting involved, and the topics couldn't be more relevant. Plan ahead and freeze that day on your agenda.
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Smart Home Market Shifting to Integration Over New Home Acquisition
July 9, 2019 by audioXpress Staff

Smart Home Market Shifting to Integration Over New Home Acquisition

Smart home technology pushed into 34 million new homes worldwide last year, according to a new Smart Home report from ABI Research, a global tech market advisory firm. In North America, the most valuable smart home market, close to 40% of homes have invested in smart home technology. However, new home growth is poised to decline slightly this year as the market transitions from entering new homes to extending the scope of existing deployments.
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CEVA Introduces Fully-Integrated Wi-Fi Solution to Connect Devices to the Alibaba Cloud
June 25, 2019 by audioXpress Staff

CEVA Introduces Fully-Integrated Wi-Fi Solution to Connect Devices to the Alibaba Cloud

Signal processing platform specialist CEVA introduced a fully-integrated, licensable Wi-Fi solution for companies looking to accelerate the development of connected devices that make use of Alibaba Cloud. The turnkey solution integrates CEVA’s industry-leading RivieraWaves Wi-Fi Low Power IP together with the AliOS Things operating system on a single RISC-V CPU core, providing the freedom to focus development efforts on creating differentiation in the end application.
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Smart Home Integration Expanded at CEDIA Expo 2019
June 20, 2019 by audioXpress Staff

Smart Home Integration Expanded at CEDIA Expo 2019

CEDIA Expo is the annual show created for the Custom Electronic Design & Installation Association (CEDIA), founded to advocate home technology, promoting training/certification, business, and the residential integration industry in general. Now operated by Emerald Expositions, the 2019 edition takes place September 10-14, at the Colorado Convention Center, in Denver. The show is promoting a new expansion era, towards the connected home and connected built environments.
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Wi-Fi Celebrates 20 Years with More Than 20 Billion Anticipated Device Shipments over the Next Six Years
June 14, 2019 by audioXpress Staff

Wi-Fi Celebrates 20 Years with More Than 20 Billion Anticipated Device Shipments over the Next Six Years

More than 20 billion Wi-Fi devices are forecasted to ship between 2019 and 2024, according to a new market data report from global tech market advisory firm, ABI Research. Continued growth in traditional markets of strength, alongside traction in mesh networking systems, smart home, automotive, and IoT applications will drive the Wi-Fi market forward to nearly 4 billion annual device shipments by 2024.
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Practical Test & Measurement: The Smart Way of Testing Smart Home Devices
June 12, 2019 by Hans W. Gierlich

Practical Test & Measurement: The Smart Way of Testing Smart Home Devices

In this article for audioXpress, Hans W. Gierlich, managing director of HEAD acoustics, explains how to test the different performance parameters of smart speakers and smart home devices under real-life conditions, how to deal with the challenges of optimizing systems for voice and audio quality, how to simulate environmental conditions, user behavior, and test the performance of the various functionalities. This article was originally published in audioXpress, January 2019.
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Savant Announces New Apple AirPlay 2 and HomeKit Compatible Products
May 31, 2019 by audioXpress Staff

Savant Announces New Apple AirPlay 2 and HomeKit Compatible Products

Savant introduced a high-fidelity smart audio amplifier that will support AirPlay 2 and HomeKit as part of the company’s new Smart Series family, offering popular music streaming services, 24-bit and 96kHz high-resolution playback with ultra-low latency and 125 Watts per channel out of the box. The company also announced that its Savant Music whole-house standalone app is now available, and that is smart soundbar now supports Siri control of HomeKit devices.
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MQA Integration Available For The First Time In Home Automation Via Control4 Smart Home OS 3
May 29, 2019 by audioXpress Staff

MQA Integration Available For The First Time In Home Automation Via Control4 Smart Home OS 3

MQA (Master Quality Authenticated) announced Control4 Corporation as the first home automation platform to support MQA’s award-winning technology, with its new Control4 Smart Home OS 3. The pioneering company delivering authenticated master-quality music in a file small enough to stream has now integrated with Control4 OS 3, allowing homeowners in a Control4 Smart Home to enjoy MQA studio quality sound throughout their entire home.
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