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PC Magazine
November 2, 2004
Troy Dreier |
Your Automated Home Control your household appliances from a PC, over the Web, or via remote. We review four starter packages.   |
Entrepreneur
January 2008
Amanda C. Kooser |
In iControl Go online to keep your company under lock and key. |
PC Magazine
March 2, 2004
Bill Howard |
Master of the House Home automation technology is fun and affordable. Here's how to get started. |
PC Magazine
October 5, 2004
Bill Howard |
Home Automation that Works Zensys Z-Wave, a 908.4-MHz, UPnP-compliant mesh-networking protocol, is a home automation system that really works. |
Home Toys
June 2006
Lew Brown |
A New Standard for Home Control Products Entering a dark home is already a thing of the past for many people thanks to a technology called Z-Wave. One press of a button on an in-car remote illuminates the front walkway, turns on the kitchen and hall lights, unlocks the front door and turns on the stereo. |
PC Magazine
October 19, 2004
Troy Dreier |
Do-It-Yourself Home Security Guard your castle with networked cameras. We review 4 systems that let you do the installation on your own. |
Home Toys
April 2004
Paul Custodio |
Affordable Home Automation Solutions The following three examples are simple home solutions that can be implemented in nearly any home on nearly any budget, using equipment available from X10.com. |
PC Magazine
August 17, 2004
Bill Howard |
Geek-Free Home Automation One of life's ironies is that those of us who can dim the living-room lights and switch the stereo to soft jazz at the press of a single button are probably the geeks who can't get a date and take advantage of the romantic atmosphere. |
Popular Mechanics
January 30, 2009
Glenn Derene |
How to Control Your Home with your Cell Phone We show you how you can use your smart phone as a remote control for your lights, heat and security in your home. |
Home Theater
April 2003
Larry Houser |
Lighting for Dummies Simple tools to create the ideal lighting environment for your home theater |
Home Toys
December 2005
Rajeev Kapur |
Home Control Networks Are Ready for Prime Time with Smarthome's INSTEON Technology The dream of a personalized home environment that increases comfort, safety, convenience and value is becoming a reality. Home control networks are finally ready for the mass market. |
Home Toys
June 2005 |
Motorola Ushers New Era in Home Monitoring & Control Consumers can easily install and customize new solutions that work with existing broadband connections -- enabling users to remain connected and informed. Cost-effective and feature-rich, Motorola's solution monitors and controls a variety of home functions. |
Home Toys
April 2004 |
Home Technology Integration The objective of this article is to provide you with a primer regarding the issues that must be considered when contemplating the installation of a Home Automation System. |
PC World
May 21, 2007
Kirk Steers |
Do-It-Yourself Surveillance Protects Home or Business Webcams and IP cameras let you keep an eye on your property while you're away. |
| This Old House |
Product Innovation: Remote-Controlled Lighting Easy, affordable ways to get whole-house lighting control without rewiring. |
IEEE Spectrum
October 2006
Jon Adams & Bob Heile |
Busy as a ZigBee Now that you've finally installed Wi-Fi, get ready for a second home network -- one that will control the house itself |
PC Magazine
May 17, 2006
Parker-Perry et al. |
Smarter Homes We take you inside three of the smartest homes in America to show you what they've done and how they did it. |
Home Theater
February 2006
Darryl Wilkinson |
Control4 Media Controller System The Control4 Media Controller System is a great home theater controller with exceptional home-automation expansion possibilities. |
Home Toys
August 2004
Axe & Rosenthal |
Lighting Controls Simplified With the proper lighting control system, lighting within a room or throughout a home can be controlled automatically with a single lighting control button, a remote control, when a door is opened or even when the sun rises and sets. |
Home Toys
June 2005
James Russo |
Home Automation From the Leader in Home Tech If you are in the market for a cheap and easy to use home automation kit, check out the Radio Shack kit. If nothing else, the kit can be a starting place for an end user till he or she expands to more sophisticated kits like X10. |
PC World
October 25, 2007
Dan Tynan |
Pushing the One-Button Household The automated home of the future is still in the future for most people, but it's a lot closer than it used to be. |
Home Toys
April 2005
Raoul Wijgergangs |
Making Sense of Today's Home Control Technologies The Z-Wave protocol is designed for residential control systems. Typically these systems have between five and two hundred plus nodes, distributed around the home and garden. The system is designed for easy installation because homeowners install and manage the system themselves. |
Home Toys
June 2003 |
Webcomodore: the Ultimate Energy Cost Buster Web services are not only used for entertainment or information technology but also for building/home automation or for energy management. Shovon's Internet-ready Webcomodore product line utilizes the power of the Internet to help users to administer energy spending. |
This Old House
August 2007
Wilson Rothman |
Wireless Monitoring Systems Worry about whether you left home with the garage door open or an appliance turned on? Know what's going on at home with a wireless monitoring system. |
InternetNews
January 23, 2004
Susan Kuchinskas |
ZigBee Key to Jetsons-style Living Two-way, low-data-rate chips will be central to the connected home of the future, say analysts. |
CIO
June 1, 2002
Christopher Lindquist |
See It All Internet-enabled cameras with motion sensors can be used to monitor your home. New models are reaching lower price points. |
| This Old House |
3 Reasons to Get Remote Lighting Control The advantages of remote control lighting are convenience and deterring burglars. |
Home Toys
October 2005
Adams & Nguyen |
HomeToys Interview: Panasonic Adopts ZigBee via Freescale's Platform ZigBee technology is intended to take much of the pain and difficulty out of adding short-range, robust wireless to products that once relied upon expensive wiring or proprietary radios. |
This Old House
Zachary Gaulkin |
Smart Thermostats The latest energy-saving devices can talk to your power company -- and you |
Food Engineering
February 1, 2009
Wayne Labs |
Tech Update: Wireless Networks Provide Critical Measures Applications for wireless sensors in manufacturing are as vast as the imagination can create. |
PC World
December 2004
Dan Tynan |
Your Homeland Security In the future our houses will be smarter than we are. Using the Internet and wireless technologies, we'll control our homes' lights and heating, keep an eye on our pets, and scare the hell out of unsuspecting houseguests without ever leaving our desks. |
Wired
January 2005
Tom Vanderbilt |
Own Your Own Remote Control Castle Today! The automated life used to be the exclusive realm of the rich. Now home automation is coming to a subdivision near you. |
Home Toys
August 2004 |
Are PLC Gremlins Causing Problems? Here's How to Send Them Packing! You don't need an extensive power line communications (PLC)/X-10 system to encounter gremlins --- those seemingly inexplicable little glitches that keep certain signals from successfully arriving at certain receivers. |
This Old House
Laura Fraser |
How One Family Did a Smart-Home Upgrade The Johnsons upgraded their home with app-controlled gadgets to make life easier, safer, and cost-effective |
Home Toys
December 2004 |
HomeToys Interview The ZigBee Alliance is an association of companies working together to enable wirelessly networked monitoring and control products based on an open global standard. |
Wired
January 2004
Bob Parks |
Everything Is Under Control Several new systems use a central server and your PC to manage clashing protocols for home automation devices. These are stopgap measures. What is really needed is a single standard like 802.15.4, also known as ZigBee. |
Home Toys
December 2005 |
Lights, Plasma, Action! Proper lighting control is essential to a well-designed home theater. And among the myriad choices in lighting control, it is easy to find a system within your budget. |
Home Theater
September 2005
John Higgens |
Universal Remote Roundup One For All URC 8910... RadioShack Kameleon 6-in-1... URC-100 Unifier... Sony RM-AV2500... Logitech Harmony 676... |
InternetNews
January 27, 2006
Susan Kuchinskas |
Bob Metcalfe, Chairman, Interim CEO, Ember Internet pioneer Bob Metcalfe takes networking to the sensor level. |
Home Toys
February 2004 |
Home Technology Integration Lighting control for the custom home |
PC Magazine
February 5, 2009
Eric Griffith |
After 11n: The Future of Wireless Home Networking Wi-Fi's immediate and distant future hold improvements to ad hoc connections, 802.11s (and 11z!), and more. Here's what you need to know. |
U.S. CPSC
March 16, 2010 |
Remote Control Kits for Electric Fireplaces and Stoves Recalled by Dimplex North America Due to Fire and Burn Hazards The plug-in wall unit can overheat, posing a fire and burn hazard to consumers. |
Home Toys
October 2002
Wade Johnston |
Electric Underfloor Heating: Quiet, Comfortable, Connected Electric floor heating systems are usually connected through a programmable thermostat that controls each individual room. These thermostats work off a floor sensor to allow accurate control of the heat. |
Home Toys
October 2005 |
Harmony 688 Advanced Universal Remote All in all, this is a fantastic remote. It's simple enough for family use, yet powerful enough for professionals. |
Home Toys
June 2004 |
Ideal Remote Controls Combining a remote with a controller can bring back the joy of having a simple remote control. Done right, there is no need to "understand" how the entertainment equipment is wired, nor a need to learn how to control it. It just works. In fact, it passes the babysitter test. |
