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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.   |
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. |
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. |
InternetNews
January 14, 2005
Eric Griffith |
Z-Wave Wants to Be Your Standard The battle for wireless home control is on, as Zensys prepares to open up access to its wireless technology in the wake of ZigBee 1.0's arrival. |
Fast Company
Jared Newman |
Samsung's $100 Million Internet of Things Bet Is Even Crazier Than You Think Samsung has some big ideas about the Internet of Things -- the concept that everything from your lights to your car to your coffeemaker could gain some intelligence through an Internet connection. |
PC Magazine
January 31, 2007
Jeremy A. Kaplan |
Control Yourself Three homeowners jump into the world of home automation to see if the "wow" factor is really worth the hassle. |
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. |
InternetNews
December 16, 2004
Eric Griffith |
Zigbee (Almost) Arrives The low-power, low-cost wireless finally has an official specification, but don't believe the hype of all the players--no one has real Zigbee chips or products just yet. |
Home Toys
October 2002
Jack Goldberg |
A Day in the Life A typical day in the life of a home automation system controller, as seen through its eyes |
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. |
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 |
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
Eric Hagerman |
Say What? Translating Smart-Home Geek Speak From Apple HomeKit to Z-Wave, common smart-home jargon is demystified. |
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. |
