All items tagged with home automation (31)

3PASS flex: New Background Noise Simulation System for Multi-Microphone Arrangements

April 11, 2017 by audioXpress Staff

3PASS flex: New Background Noise Simulation System for Multi-Microphone Arrangements

3PASS flex is HEAD acoustics new simulation system for measuring speech quality performance in the presence of background noise. It is particularly suited for testing multi-microphone systems, microphone arrays or beamforming microphones in real world conditions where multi-point noise simulation with flexible microphone and loudspeaker arrays is required. 3PASS flex reproduces any previously recorded sound field at distinct microphone positions, representative of typical use cases.

Nordic Semiconductor to Demonstrate Bluetooth 5 Enhancements at CES 2017

December 27, 2016 by Cristina Costa

Nordic Semiconductor to Demonstrate Bluetooth 5 Enhancements at CES 2017

Nordic Semiconductor in collaboration with its design partners are unveiling latest Bluetooth low energy and IEEE 802.15.4-enabled innovations at International CES 2017 in Las Vegas. The Norwegian company will demonstrate the capabilities of its Bluetooth 5-compatible nRF52 Series SoCs. Product demonstrations include contactless payment, wearables wireless charging, thread networking, voice-activated remote control, educational platforms, home automation and Bluetooth 5 enhancements.

Smart Home Reference Designs from Silicon Labs Accelerate Development of IoT Connected Devices

December 13, 2016 by audioXpress Staff

Smart Home Reference Designs from Silicon Labs Accelerate Development of IoT Connected Devices

Silicon Labs has launched two new wireless occupancy sensor and smart outlet reference designs for the home automation market. The FCC and UL pre-certified reference designs include all of the hardware, firmware and software tools required to create feature-rich, future-proofed connected home products based on Silicon Labs’ ZigBee “Golden Unit” Home Automation (HA 1.2) software stack and multiprotocol Wireless Gecko system-on-chip (SoC) portfolio.

STMicroelectronics Introduces STM32H7 MCU Series with Increased Performance for Smart Devices

October 21, 2016 by Cristina Costa

STMicroelectronics Introduces STM32H7 MCU Series with Increased Performance for Smart Devices

STMicroelectronics is paving the way to even more intelligent smart devices everywhere with its new record-breaking STM32H7 series of microcontrollers, which embeds the highest SRAM memory (1Mbytes), Flash memory up to 2MB, and the richest connectivity peripheral set ever seen in the STM32 platform. Apart from extremely high on-chip memory density, the new STM32H7 series features state-of-the-art security for connected objects.

The Future in Product Development at electronica 2016

October 10, 2016 by audioXpress Staff

The Future in Product Development at electronica 2016

Anyone involved in product development, design, and production needs to attend the electronica 2016 trade-show, November 8-11. The 27th International Trade Fair for Electronic Components, Systems and Applications, will be the largest ever, featuring an additional hall to occupy a total of 13 halls at the Messe München trade-fair center, and offering even more presentations on current industry trends, such as embedded systems, connectivity, automotive electronics, home automation, smart grids, and IoT.

Bluetooth SIG Introduces Updated Line of Developer Toolkits

September 26, 2016 by Cristina Costa

Bluetooth SIG Introduces Updated Line of Developer Toolkits

The Bluetooth Special Interest Group (SIG) released several updates to its developer toolkit line-up, introducing news tools for Bluetooth beacons, home automation, and wearables. The latest Bluetooth toolkits empower developers to build faster and smarter when creating things like mobile apps and low-cost beacons, as well as gateways that control IoT sensors, with security and interoperability in mind.

Crestron Delivers Whole Home Voice Control Via Amazon Alexa

September 20, 2016 by audioXpress Staff

Crestron Delivers Whole Home Voice Control Via Amazon Alexa

As reported, CEDIA 2016 was dominated with announcements of partnerships with Voice Personal Assistant technologies, including Amazon’s Alexa. Crestron even made an announcement earlier this year that they would not be exhibiting at the CEDIA show, later to be confirmed that Crestron would share demonstrations with selected partners, such as Sonos, and shared a booth with Amazon in order to demonstrate how homeowners can now ask Alexa to control music, lights, temperature, video distribution and other custom automation possibilities.

Lutron HomeWorks QS and RadioRA 2 Lighting Control Systems to Work with Amazon Alexa

September 16, 2016 by audioXpress Staff

Lutron HomeWorks QS and RadioRA 2 Lighting Control Systems to Work with Amazon Alexa

Voice Personal Assistants are grabbing the AV industry’s attention for multiple applications. At CEDIA 2016, voice control is one of the hot topics, and Amazon’s Alexa Skills Kit (ASK) and the Alexa Voice Service (AVS) are allowing developers to build new capabilities for Alexa and integrate Alexa into their own products. Lutron announced Alexa integration with its control systems allowing users to adjust the lights, shades and temperature simply using voice commands.

MSC Technologies Integrates Low-Power 6th Generation Intel Core Processors on COM Express Modules

September 8, 2015 by audioXpress Staff

MSC Technologies Integrates Low-Power 6th Generation Intel Core Processors on COM Express Modules

MSC Technologies has launched the MSC C6C-SLU Type 6 COM Express module family, which is based on the latest 6th Generation Intel Core U Series processors, a complete low-power chipset in one multi-chip package with integrated graphics controller. An efficient and compact solution for embedded systems, including home automation applications.

Solid Growth for Smart Home Automation Systems and Wi-Fi Deployments

April 30, 2015 by audioXpress Staff

Solid Growth for Smart Home Automation Systems and Wi-Fi Deployments

According to market research company ABI Research, global revenues from smart home automation systems will grow at a 21% CAGR between 2015 and 2020, with the North American market contributing close to 46% globally. Meanwhile 802.11ac Wi-Fi deployments continue to accelerate in 2015 and the market is gearing up to tri-band 802.11ad solutions.

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