Strengthening its nearly two-decade relationship with Lutron, ELAN® Home Systems, Carlsbad, Calif., announced that its ELAN g! Entertainment and Control System software version 5.4 supports the new international version of Lutron’s HomeWorks QS total home control system.
Crestron, Rockleigh, N.J., commemorated the opening of its new Experience Center in Cypress, Calif., with more than 400 guests that included Crestron dealers, consultants, architects, lighting designers and specifiers, electrical contractors, vendor partners, media, and local government officials.
The Z-Wave Alliance, Milpitas, Calif., an open consortium of leading global companies dedicated to promoting Z-Wave as the standard in wireless home control, with close to 600 interoperable products world-wide, announced the addition of Verizon as its newest Alliance member.
Technologies may be converging, but when it comes to the revenue models of security dealers and electronic systems contractors, the differences are vast.
A confluence of both opportunities (energy management, mobile technologies) and challenges (depressed home construction, reduced consumer spending) keeps pushing installation companies into market segments in which they’ve never gone before. One result is that more security dealers are seeking sales of residential systems that go beyond traditional security, especially those targeted for the existing home market.
AVAD LLC, Van Nuys, Calif., a North American distributor of custom electronics, now provides dealers an even greater level of customer service with its new live Tech Support capabilities.
Peak 10 Inc., Sarasota, Fla., announced it is providing managed hosting services to Clare Controls, a provider of configurable and intuitive home automation systems. Peak 10’s solutions deliver increased security and availability for the ClareHome configuration tool, Fusion, and for ClareAssure, the company’s remote network maintenance product.
Coopersburg, Pa.-based Lutron Electronics scheduled its North American 2012 Residential Opportunities Tour. It is designed to educate Lutron’s RadioRA 2 dealers, HomeWorks QS dealers and new this year — architects, designers, builders and remodelers — on various topics.
The Custom Electronic Design & Installation Association’s (CEDIA) annual Electronic Lifestyles Awards competition is underway, with the online entry system officially open. CEDIA members interested in entering may view guidelines and begin the entry process now at www.cedia.org/awards.
A Best of Innovations award winner for its approach to in-home Web connectivity and networking, WiPNET at its simplest is Ethernet over coax, according to Adam Lenio of Wi3, Victor, N.Y. This means high speed Internet access to every location in a home with little more than the replacement of existing coax cable wall plates with WiPNET ports.
Keith Harrison uses MoCA to speed deployment and improve the profitability of his retrofit projects. Frank Montensinos and Rich Green both see value in MoCA for their residential businesses.