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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. |
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. |
PC Magazine
February 11, 2004
Bill Howard |
No Cords, No Hassles Wireless begets wireless. Once you cut the cord on a couple of devices, you want to cut them all. Here are half a dozen wireless technologies you'll want to take advantage of. |
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. |
| This Old House |
Product Innovation: Remote-Controlled Lighting Easy, affordable ways to get whole-house lighting control without rewiring. |
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 Toys
February 2003
Craig Chadwick |
X10 Debugging Tips If you use X10, you will inevitably experience some of the problems described here. Hopefully this information will help you resolve the problem as quickly and painlessly as possible. |
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
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 Toys
February 2006
Brett Griffin |
Intermingling X-10 and New Lighting Technologies in Your Home Many X-10 users will want to intermingle few UPB or other RF capable switches at first, migrating their homes over a few years, spreading the cost out. |
Home Toys
April 2002
Bob Hetherington |
Leviton Decora Home Controls Scene-Capable Dimming Wall Switch Receivers Well, it's time to change over the house from those old ivory X10 pushbuttons to something a little more contemporary with higher quality and reliability. We decided on Leviton's newest line of wall switches. |
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. |
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
June 2002
Ant Skelton |
Marmitek AWM2 Micro-Module The Marmitek AWM2 micro-module is the first to market of the new breed of modules supporting ACT's A10 (Advanced X10) protocol. The AWM2 has two switch inputs: the first controls the built-in appliance module, and the second is transmitted as X10 on the mains wiring. |
Home Toys
February 2003
Jimmy Busby |
Hardwired Lighting Control: Now Affordable and Reliable Because of the complexity and the high cost, lighting control and whole house integration has only been available to a fortunate few. By keeping devices simple and programming easy, automation can become something that everyone can use. |
Home Toys
December 2004
Raoul Wijgergangs |
Realizing the Promise of the Connected Home Z-Wave is delivering on the promise of the connected home with a chip the size of a dime. Its low-cost wireless mesh network communications technology enables consumers to monitor and manage their lights, thermostats, garage door openers, smoke detectors, security systems and other home control products. |
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. |
Home Toys
June 2005 |
How to Increase Safety and Security Around the House No more are you limited by the wiring systems that were installed when they built your home. New wireless home control systems can easily modernize your home's electrical system and much more. |
Home Toys
October 2003
Kevin Moss |
The Future of Home Automation on the PC This article discusses home automation, what's available for the PC today, what we can do and what we can't. |
Home Toys
June 2005 |
X10 Irrigation Control Spring is here and we have a home automation idea we'd like to spring on you: X10 Irrigation Control with the WGL Rain8 Irrigation Controller. |
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. |
| This Old House |
3 Reasons to Get Remote Lighting Control The advantages of remote control lighting are convenience and deterring burglars. |
Home Toys
June 2004 |
UPB Powerline Carrier Home Control Technology Web Mountain Technologies (WMT) is one of a new breed of manufacturers in the Home Technology market that is building products based upon TCP/IP networking. |
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
June 2002
Daniel E. Fulmer |
Automating for Disabled Clients This is a very rewarding implementation of home automation and can also be lucrative. The caveat is to be sure to install a system that will be extremely reliable. |
Home Toys
February 2004
Chris Smith |
Advanced X10 Outdoor Automated Lighting It took a while, but I figured a way to solve my needs to "smartly" control my outdoor lighting with X10 that I'd like to share. Basically, I found a way to get different modes of control for my unintelligent outdoor sensors based on time of day periods. |
Home Toys
October 2004 |
30 year anniversary: Dave Rye of X10 X10 is regarded as the De Facto standard for Home Automation. |
Home Toys
August 2002
Jack Barcroft |
Home Control & the Personal Computer (HCPC): the perfect Match This paper explores the emerging HCPC market, the technology behind United Home, and why it is poised to become a catalyst for sale of computing products, PCs, CE devices, wireless access points, Internet services, entertainment gear, and integrator services. |
Home Toys
December 2002
Roger Stamm |
Lighting Your Way to a More Secure, More Beautiful Home The features and advantages of modern lighting control systems are truly incredible. Technological advancements have given us comprehensive and affordable home lighting controls that can do things Thomas Edison would have never dreamed were possible. |
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
Don Marquardt |
"JEANNIE": The House that Listens Home Automation can be both very useful and affordable to even the modest home owner. You can start small and add functions as you get time and money. But if you're building your home, you can go all-out with the necessary equipment for networking and automation relatively inexpensively. |
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. |
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. |
Home Toys
December 2005
Andrew Reed |
Superna Home Automation Systems Provide Flexibility, Security for Smart Homes With a push of a button, you upload and store the set-up information to every Superna product connected to the network, rendering each one completely independent of the others (in case one device in the network fails). |
This Old House
Eric Hagerman |
Say What? Translating Smart-Home Geek Speak From Apple HomeKit to Z-Wave, common smart-home jargon is demystified. |
PC World
November 16, 2000
Harry McCracken |
Home, Web-Enabled Home X-traWeb's MAX system will deliver home automation for the Internet age... |
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. |
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. |
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
February 2005
Eugene Kowch |
Why is There a Need for an Electrical Design? An electrical design will gather all switching requirements for the home. Determine what level of control is acceptable and propose an electrical control system to meet these needs. |
Home Toys
December 2003
Barry V. Gordon |
Home Automation at the Gordon Residence My home control system interfaces key subsystems that provide specific control over different devices and functions around the house: Security System, HVAC Thermostats, Touchscreens, Lighting, Text to speech, a Whole House Music System, and Voice recognition. |
Home Toys
October 2004
Tom Grounds |
Home Theater Project: Media Room Finding the right place for everything in your home theater system. |
Home Toys
December 2004
Paul Motz |
CP290 Director X CP290 Director X programs the original X10 home automation computer controlled interface, model number CP290, with a great looking program that makes the most of what the CP290 can do. |
Home Toys
February 2005
Findlay, Lynch & McCormack |
Home Automation Portal Appliance Be it for security, device control, climate control or exterior control, the home automation market continues to grow and thrive. The Home Automation Portal Appliance will soon become an essential addition to most home automation projects of any complexity. |
Home Toys
February 2003
Hin Oey |
IP-Enabled Home Automation IP-enabled devices and components are aware of other components on the net and are capable to interact directly with each other without human interference or a central management computer; when the door opens, the light, heating, and ventilation 'know' that they should become active. |
Home Toys
February 2005
Chris Miller |
The Time Is Right for Installers and Systems Designers to Give Customers What They Want--Even If the Customers Don't Know How to Ask It's not unusual for installers and system designers to avoid using computers or to fail to recognize the cost-saving benefits for setting up a LAN or local area network. Each LAN is unique because homeowners invariably want different capabilities from their home networks. |
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. |
Home Toys
June 2005
Jorgensen & Johansen |
Z-Wave as Home Control RF Platform The mesh network Z-Wave system, with its self-organizing and self-healing features, combined with flexible but simple installation procedures, provides an easy-to-use network solution. |
Home Toys
June 2002
Andy Jackson |
Approaching Home Automation with Clear Thinking "System Integration" speaks to the need for intelligent cooperation between the electronic systems in your home. It could be a matter as small as controlling different lighting zones by time or circumstance, or it may go so far as interfacing audio/video, security, lighting, HVAC and more. |
