All items tagged with smart home (222)
The National Kitchen & Bath Association (NKBA) Enters Strategic Partnership With The Home Technology Association (HTA)
April 29, 2022 by audioXpress Staff

The National Kitchen & Bath Association (NKBA) Enters Strategic Partnership With The Home Technology Association (HTA)

Connecting residential design, construction and technology professionals, the National Kitchen & Bath Association (NKBA) recently announced a partnership with the Home Technology Association (HTA), in addition to its participation in CEDIA Expo. The NKBA represents nearly 50,000 industry members, which will gain access to HTA’s library of educational resources. In return, NKBA will develop collaborative opportunities for design professionals and HTA-certified integrators.
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CEDIA Reveals Home Technology Industry Now Exceeds $20 Billion
April 7, 2022 by audioXpress Staff

CEDIA Reveals Home Technology Industry Now Exceeds $20 Billion

CEDIA, the global trade association for the home technology industry, released the 2021 Integrated Home Market Analysis. The results highlight the strength and stability of the estimated $20.1B integrated home market. In partnership with with market research firm Ancrage Consulting, the survey's findings reveals promising insights on products, trends, and growth opportunities from business leaders and integrators in the home technology sector.
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McIntosh MX100 AV Processor Receives Control4 Certification
April 6, 2022 by audioXpress Staff

McIntosh MX100 AV Processor Receives Control4 Certification

McIntosh announced that its MX100 AV Processor has implemented Simple Device Discovery Protocol (SDDP) and has received "Connects with Control4" Certification from Control4, the smart home brand from Snap One. This certification confirms the seamless integration into custom install and smart home systems powered by Control4's smart home operating system (OS) that connects virtually all of the technology in a home. With Control4 Smart Home OS 3, users can control nearly every device and system in the house, including their McIntosh-equipped home theater.
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CEDIA Expo Returns to Dallas in 2022
March 18, 2022 by audioXpress Staff

CEDIA Expo Returns to Dallas in 2022

CEDIA Expo, the trade show now owned by Emerald Expositions, brings together thousands of residential technology integrators, designers and construction professionals, engaging with hundreds of exhibitors as the leading event for smart home technology. Following two challenging years, CEDIA Expo 2022 will take place September 29 – October 1, at the Kay Bailey Hutchison Convention Center in Dallas, TX.
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New AVA Streaming Audio System and Remote Control Bring New Smart Home Options to CEDIA Channel
March 7, 2022 by Joao Martins

New AVA Streaming Audio System and Remote Control Bring New Smart Home Options to CEDIA Channel

AVA is a new Swiss-American manufacturer of connected home products from the founders of NEEO and former Control4 executives. The company's first products are the AVA 2.1 Streaming Audio System and the AVA Remote, an elegantly designed Android-based dedicated touchscreen device. Combined, the new premium solutions are meant to offer a powerful hub and interface for the smart home and connected devices, available exclusively through the professional installation channel.
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Aspinity AML100 Analog Machine Learning Chip Redefines Always-on Power Efficiency for Voice Applications
February 23, 2022 by Cristina Costa

Aspinity AML100 Analog Machine Learning Chip Redefines Always-on Power Efficiency for Voice Applications

Aspinity launched the first member of its analogML family, the AML100, which is the industry’s first and only tiny machine learning (ML) solution operating completely within the analog domain. As such, the AML100 reduces always-on system power by 95%, allowing manufacturers to dramatically extend the battery life of devices and migrate walled powered always-on devices to battery - opening whole new classes of products for voice-first and smart home systems.
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The Standards We Need: Do Audio Technologies Matter in the Smart Home?
February 10, 2022 by Joao Martins

The Standards We Need: Do Audio Technologies Matter in the Smart Home?

Matter is an industry-unifying standard for the Smart Home that promises reliable, secure connectivity — a seal of approval that devices will work seamlessly together. But... Do audio technologies matter in the Smart Home? The audio industry needs to get involved in this convergence and interoperability effort. After all, we can already tell a speaker to play a song - thanks to voice recognition technology, AI, and wireless networks - but we still don’t have a transparent wireless audio standard to stream audio to speakers or headphones because basically audio remains restricted by specifications that were not written with audio in mind.
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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.
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Synaptics Launches Matter-Compliant Triple Combo SoC for Seamless Connectivity
February 3, 2022 by Joao Martins

Synaptics Launches Matter-Compliant Triple Combo SoC for Seamless Connectivity

Synaptics announced the SYN4381 Triple Combo system-on-chip (SoC), the first to combine Wi-Fi 6/6E (802.11ax with extended 6 GHz operation), Bluetooth 5.2 (BT 5.2) with BLE Audio and High Accuracy Distance Measurement (HADM), and IEEE 802.15.4 with built-in support for the Thread protocol and Matter application layer. The solution simplifies product development while supporting 600 Mbps video and data, low-power Thread communication, and platform-agnostic device setup and interoperability.
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Telit Launches WE310G4 Dual-Band Wi-Fi Module with BLE 5.0
January 28, 2022 by audioXpress Staff

Telit Launches WE310G4 Dual-Band Wi-Fi Module with BLE 5.0

Wireless connectivity specialists Telit announced the launch of their new WE310G4 module, which enables manufacturers to add dual-band Wi-Fi and Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) 5.0 connectivity quickly and cost-effectively to their products. Based on Realtek's Ameba system on chip (SoC), the WE310G4 is ideal for a wide variety of embedded designs, including smart home devices and appliances, wearables, fitness trackers, smart city sensors, aftermarket telematics and industrial automation sensors.
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