Innholdsfortegnelse for Vol 4/ Issue 2/3 i Residential Tech Today

Each year, CEDIA conducts an Integrated Home Market Analysis of the residential electronic systems industry to quantify, segment, characterize, and forecast the market at large. The 2022 results, published in partnership with leading market research firm Ancrage Consulting LLC, consist of 65 pages of research indicating the home technology industry is strong, and not only that, it's growing. The upward momentum from the past two years has been largely attributed to the COVID19 pandemic and the stay-at-home orders that forced people to reestablish their work and social lives from home. While that has certainly played a large part, the historical data proves the residential technology market had been growing steadily even before the pandemic — so steadily that from 2012-2018 the annual market size grew almost consistently by $2 billion…

AVA is on a mission to put true stereo back into people's homes, while providing all the advantages of today's most popular connected speakers. AVA, a Swiss-American manufacturer of connected home products, is launching and shipping the company's first products, the AVA 2.1 Streaming Audio System and the AVA Remote, selling their premium products exclusively through the professional installation channel. The AVA Streaming Audio System was developed in collaboration with legendary Swiss audio company, Revox, who have built some of the industry's most influential studio audio equipment. For AVA CEO and co-founder Raphael Oberholzer, the focus on “true stereo” is all about “how music is recorded,” and also “the best way to reproduce the experience intended by the artist and the sound engineers.” Intended as a true-stereo 2.1 channel system,…

GREEN TECH One Smart City Sterling Ranch is a large-scale urban development in northwest Douglas County, in metro Denver, Colorado. When fully built out, it will include 12,000 single and multi-family homes and more than 2-million square feet of commercial development, with 37% of land being dedicated to open space. Sterling Ranch is a modern model for a smart city. It is a sustainable development that starts with the infrastructure but includes connectivity for every home and business. Siemens USA, a global leader in intelligent infrastructure and the technology partner for Sterling Ranch, is focused on identifying and evaluating technologies from best-in-class organizations that help people improve everyday life. How an Idea Came to Life There are more devices connected to the internet than there are people in the world; a…

Senseon is a commercial-grade cabinet locking system from Accuride designed for seamless integration into any fixture, including those in a home. Designed for cabinet doors, drawers, and closets, Senseon Systems bolster home security to increase your peace of mind. The system fills the gap left by traditional home security, offering user-friendly access control for cabinets, drawers, and display cases. It also eliminates traditional lock and keys with a wireless “wave-and-lock” system with auto relock and customizable access permissions. Crestron's new LED Light Fixtures are fully tunable to add real-time personalized lighting control into the Crestron Home operating system. Homeowners can have full control of the color of their lights, including hue, saturation, color temperature, and intensity of light, or they can opt to synchronize Crestron's LED Light Fixtures with their…

Window shades are a classic choice in a smart home, providing elegance and functionality in any room. Now, with the combination of an expansive fabric collection and decorative brackets and hembar endcaps, Legrand Shading Systems dealers can further customize the details of their customers’ shading solutions. Available in a wide range of finishes to match any residential or commercial space's unique style, Legrand's Designer Series brackets and endcaps can help elevate the style of any window more easily. The decorative brackets, which are designed to fit 2.6-inch and 3.3-inch universal and open-roll adjustable brackets, slide on easily to completely conceal mounting brackets from the outside without interfering with the mounting surface. They hide mounting hardware from view, resulting in a cohesive shading design. Likewise, the Designer Series hembar endcaps offer…

Home theater enthusiasts are always looking to what's next in video technology. In response, Epson has introduced its most advanced projector to date. The Epson Pro Cinema LS12000 4K PRO-UHD Laser Projector incorporates an all-new Laser Array Light Source, next-generation image enhancement and processing algorithms, expanded HDR10+2 and HDMI 2.1 support, and real-time scene adaptive correction. The result: a full 8.3 million pixels on screen with zero compromise in color and brightness. Driven by a proprietary Epson ZX Picture Processor and new precision shift glass plate technology, the Pro Cinema LS12000 delivers an exceptionally sharp and clear 4K picture with 2,700 lumens of both color and white brightness. To achieve 4K PRO-UHD status, advanced pixel-shifting technology works in parallel with three individual high-definition LCD chips to produce a 4K picture…

At the end of my sophomore year in high school, I woke up with a fire in my throat and the inability to swallow. That night I had a dress rehearsal for our year-end dance concert. My mother took me to the doctor, where I was tested for strep throat and mononucleosis, and I had the latter. Not wanting to let my class down, I sat a few chairs away with a spray that numbed my throat for the next two days, and I danced in that concert. I pushed through. Of course, I ended up getting really sick for pretty much the entire summer. “Push through” has always been a part of me. My mission has always been to hustle. Then the pandemic hit, and everything changed. The Oura…

I've been obsessed with video conferencing cameras ever since the beginning of the pandemic. So much of our communications now take place virtually, and the camera is becoming the lens (forgive the pun) through which we see each other. It feels like the video conferencing experience for individuals is pretty clean. Most new computers have built-in cameras and microphones. We sit down in front of one, fire up Zoom, and boom! We get instant video conferencing thats fairly easy to use with decent sound and video. What about groups of people? That's a whole different kettle of fish. Group video conferencing; for the most part, leaves a great deal to be desired. There are, however, a few companies out there trying to change that and Vaddio is one of them.…

Smart home industry experts generally agree that the best method to understand their technology is through “experience.” For instance, living in the space gives a current or future homeowner the feeling of streaming their favorite video content, listening to high-definition audio, automating shades and light according to circadian rhythms, or creating scenes that inspire parties or facilitate relaxation. URC Automation, the manufacturer of smart home automation and control technology, has launched a virtual showroom that enables users to interact within an ultrarealistic virtual home, learn (and even simulate) a variety of control options, and explore the benefits of a URC Total Control system. URC launched its inspirational Virtual Home, with the technical expertise of Dave Chace and his team at Cogent360, as an alternative to the high costs of a…

DMF Lighting, a manufacturer in modular downlighting in the custom integration channel, has launched new DID M-Series fixtures that provide more installation options for the CI channel. They feature a new flangeless option for wood ceiling applications, new trim colors, and redesigned housings that make them even easier to install. “The flangeless wood application takes seamless ceiling light integration to a new level,” said Mike Libman, DMF's national sales director, residential systems. “The installation process is both precise and easy with DMF's patented housing and trim technology. Combined, these create a clean, uninterrupted wood plane while still providing accessibility for any future changes and serviceability.” The M-Series boasts new trim colors in bronze, warm, and cool diffused with white flange trims to match more design aesthetics. Plus, DMF has trim…

If someone asked you to think of one word that best describes both the changes and conduct of the total world of entertainment in the past few years, what would your answer be? If you asked me, the answer would be obvious: streaming. Think about it. Even though many of us still have cable or satellite as a main source of entertainment content, the number of homes using over-the-air (OTA) as their conduit for video content is increasing every day. And, with literally tens of billions of dollars spent by streaming services to create original program content, it has become apparent that streaming is becoming the dominant outlet. Look no further than all the Academy Awards where the Best Picture winner, CODA, was distributed by Apple TV+, not one of…

ISSUE FOCUS Simplifying Home Security SimpliSafe is a smart home security leader paving the way to provide more accessible home security options for homeowners who want many of the features of a traditional alarm system without the cost of professional installation. Early alarm systems required professional installation. Miles of wire were used to connect an alarm panel to each door and window in a home. Then, hidden push buttons or magnetic contact sensors were installed on doors and windows to trigger the alarm system when the door/window was opened. Strips of foil were glued on windowpanes to trigger the alarm system if the glass broke. The development of wireless alarm systems eliminated the need for the majority of this wiring. Today these “traditional” alarm systems typically use a mix of wired…

The past two years have been hard for most industries, but the smart home business has grown steadily. Through health crises, social strife, and economic volatility, consumers continue buying connected products for their homes. Parks Associates research finds that as of Q4 2021, 37% of U.S. internet households are actively shopping for a smart home device. Consumer and business interest in smart home applications and solutions accelerated during the pandemic. Multi-dwelling unit (MDU) residents are a fast-growing segment of the market. Parks Associates’ new research study, Smart Home Opportunities in Multifamily Properties, finds that 27% of MDU residents have a smart device provided by their landlord or property owner, and the overwhelming majority value the safety and security benefits of these solutions. Of those with property-provided smart home devices, 64%…