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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
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
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. |
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. |
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 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. |
PC Magazine
March 2, 2004
Bill Howard |
Master of the House Home automation technology is fun and affordable. Here's how to get started. |
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. |
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. |
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 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 |
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 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. |
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. |
| This Old House |
Product Innovation: Remote-Controlled Lighting Easy, affordable ways to get whole-house lighting control without rewiring. |
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
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 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
October 2004 |
30 year anniversary: Dave Rye of X10 X10 is regarded as the De Facto standard for Home Automation. |
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. |
