Tag: home automation
Honey, I shrunk the company
February 12, 2025Ken Showers, Managing Editor
This week in industry news, Honeywell honeycombs into three distinct hives full of busy bees, but the buzz around the move indicates a bumble.
Last week Honeywell made good on months of speculation that the company would bow to pressures from an activist investor and spun out into three separate divisions. Those divisions are its aerospace, advanced materials, and home automation divisions.
So, while this split rolls back the meter a bit on Honeywell’s conglomeration, it is also theoretically...
Shelly to unveil next-gen smart home devices at CES
January 6, 2025SSN Staff
SOFIA, Bulgaria — Shelly Group, a developer of smart home innovation, promises to redefine home automation and interoperability at CES 2025 with the unveiling its Gen4 Series smart home product lineup.
Featuring multi-protocol support across Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, Zigbee, and Matter, the Gen4 Series offers users flexibility and compatibility by allowing them to connect and use devices in a way that best suits their personal smart home setup.
The Gen4 Series introduces several upgraded devices,...
OliverIQ and Centrale D'Alarme De Bromont partner on smart home as a service
October 1, 2024SSN Staff
SOUTH JORDAN, Utah, and BROMONT, Quebec — Smart Home as a Service (SHaaS) platform OliverIQ announced that it has signed Centrale D’Alarme De Bromont as its first security provider partner in Canada.
Headquartered in Bromont, Quebec, Centrale D’Alarme De Bromont is a subsidiary of SekurCorp, a portfolio of security equipment, monitoring, and services companies. It provides security services against break-ins, fires, floods, and more. As an OliverIQ partner, the company can now...
Three questions with Brinks Home
July 24, 2024Ken Showers, Managing Editor
YARMOUTH, Maine — In light of surprising burglary statistics, Veronica Moturi of Brinks Home discusses the latest in residential security systems, including the evolution into home automation, the leverage of AI and more.
In the United States, as many as 3,062 burglaries occur every day, according to the FBI’s Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program; however, only 25% of Americans have a home security system, according to SafeWise.
We took some of our pressing...
Silmar Electronics celebrating 60th anniversary
May 11, 2023Ken Showers, Managing Editor
MIAMI – Silmar Electronics, Inc., a Florida-based wholesale distributor of low voltage security products with nine locations, is celebrating its 60th anniversary.
The origins of the company date back to 1960, when founder Jorge Smith Sr. and his family emigrated from Cuba, arriving in Miami. Smith was an electrical engineer by trade and in 1963 started Silmar Electronics. His primary focus upon establishing the company was the manufacturer of eavesdropping devices, with the...
Vivint named “Home Security Company of the Year” at IoT Breakthrough Awards
January 30, 2023SSN Staff
PROVO, Utah – Vivint Smart Home Inc. has been riding high after a boost to its stock performance in the past month following the announcement of its acquisition by NRG Energy Inc. Now it adds another feather in its cap thanks to IoT Breakthrough.
Vivint has been named the “Home Security Company of the Year” in the Seventh Annual IoT Breakthrough Awards Program. IoT Breakthrough is an organization that recognizes top technologies, companies, and products related to the...
Intrusion trends stem from smart home, home automation capabilities
January 2, 2020
YARMOUTH, Maine—The concept of physical intrusion, detection and keeping unauthorized individuals from accessing a particular space is an issue as old as time. Think moats dug around castles of old; concealed traps strategically placed around a particular area; the construction of tall, impenetrable walls protecting what's inside — all the way to modern days, where lives are filled with technologically savvy security systems; all types of locks on doors, cabinets, etc.; passwords...
U.S. International Trade Commission rules in favor of Nortek
December 6, 2019SSN Staff
CARLSBAD, Calif.—Nortek Security & Control, a global leader in wireless security, home automation, access control, and health and wellness technology, announced that an administrative law judge (ALJ) of the U.S. International Trade Commission (ITC) has issued a notice of finding that there was no violation of Section 337 of the Tariff Act of 1930 in connection with the patent infringement action brought against Nortek by The Chamberlain Group, Inc.
Finding: ALJ found that none of the products...
Smart home market is growing and maturing
May 29, 2019Paul Ragusa
The smart home continues to grow in awareness among homeowners, with approximately 22 percent of U.S. Internet households reporting owning a smart home device in Q4 2018, up from 17 percent in Q4 2017, according to The NPD Group. Alongside ownership growth, 2018 saw an 18 percent dollar sales growth in home automation devices compared to 2017, and NPD's latest Future of Tech forecast expects the category to reach $2.5 billion by the end of 2019.
According to the Connected Home Automation Report from...
ADT launches new home automation system nationwide
March 27, 2019SSN Staff
BOCA RATON, Fla.—ADT, a provider of monitored security and interactive home and business automation solutions in the U.S. and Canada, is rolling out the ADT Command panel and control platform nationwide.Building on the ADT Pulse platform, which was introduced in 2010, ADT Command offers a rich feature set customized to address customers' lifestyle and needs, while increasing operational efficiencies. The 7-inch wireless touchscreen panel can be wall-mounted or conveniently unbound, and is equipped...