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Home Toys
October 2002 |
Make your X-10 system invisible with Marmitek MicroModules You know about the advantages of X-10 Home Automation, but don't want to have bulky plug-in modules in your wall outlets? You want to have your existing wall switches work with X-10 home automation, so that style and color is no longer limited to X-10 tooling and white only?   |
| This Old House |
Product Innovation: Remote-Controlled Lighting Easy, affordable ways to get whole-house lighting control without rewiring. |
Home Toys
December 2005 |
Lights, Plasma, Action! Proper lighting control is essential to a well-designed home theater. And among the myriad choices in lighting control, it is easy to find a system within your budget. |
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. |
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
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. |
Home Toys
August 2004
Axe & Rosenthal |
Lighting Controls Simplified With the proper lighting control system, lighting within a room or throughout a home can be controlled automatically with a single lighting control button, a remote control, when a door is opened or even when the sun rises and sets. |
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. |
Home Toys
February 2004 |
Home Technology Integration Lighting control for the custom home |
Home Toys
June 2004
Thomas Morgan |
Interfacing Lightolier Compose HAI and Lightolier is a product combination that is reliable, fast, flexible and 2-way, a tough combination to beat for an integrated whole house scene-based lighting solution. |
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. |
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
June 2004
Don Johnson |
To Centralize or De-Centralize your Lighting Control: That is the Question! It was common knowledge that controlling lights with computerized panels throughout an entire home is a luxury that only the wealthy can afford -- until now! |
Home Toys
October 2005 |
Relay 8, X-10 Driven Eight Circuit Relay Module from WGL Designs The Relay 8 offers a quick and easy way for the home automation enthusiast to have relay control using conventional and easily available X-10 power line commands. |
Salon.com
May 25, 2001
Damien Cave |
Geek house Hardware hackers are using a fast-spreading technology to give their homes a cheap and speedy intelligence upgrade... |
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
June 2002
Richard Gensley |
Hi-Tech Hits the Landscaping Scene "Scenes" are the new word in lighting control. Instead of just turning on a light with a switch, home owners are now turning on scenes. In well-thought-out lighting plans, scenes don't stop at the exterior walls. They extend the lighting feel and visual effects right on out to the landscape. |
Home Toys
October 2005
Michael Breton |
Automation in the Digital Home A detailed account of the installation of a home automation system for an 8,000 square foot home. |
| This Old House |
3 Reasons to Get Remote Lighting Control The advantages of remote control lighting are convenience and deterring burglars. |
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
December 2004
Bill Hambley |
How Do You Sell Lighting Control??? You've got to get your clients to experience lighting control first hand. |
Home Toys
June 2002
Damon Bruccoleri |
Make a Big Scene with your Next Lighting System Modern scene lighting affects what people see in your home. Carefully planned lighting can establish mood and color, control the focus of attention, and enhance the beauty and functionality of the home. |
Home Toys
October 2002
David Steele |
A Low Cost Home Automation Controller Have you ever wanted to automate a function in your home, but just could not justify the cost of the do-everything home automation controllers? Elk Products' Magicmodule family of programmable controllers offer a good home automation control package at a reasonable price. |
Home Theater
April 2003
Larry Houser |
Lighting for Dummies Simple tools to create the ideal lighting environment for your home theater |
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
April 2002
Brian McClung |
The OCELOT from Applied Digital, Inc. The OCELOT home automation controller appears a well-thought-out answer to home automation. Capable of interfacing with 4 different types of protocols (RS232, RS485, X-10, and IR) and with expansion capabilities, it seems capable of the manufacturer's claims. |
Home Toys
October 2005 |
Integration of Central Vacuums with Home Automation Servers The 5.0 version of AirForce Central Vacuums talks with all other UPB devices. From the keypad of home automation panels, simple commands can now control the central vacuum. |
This Old House
March 7, 2001
Scott Gibson |
Light Up Your Kitchen Two easy ways to shed light on the hub of your home... |
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. |
U.S. CPSC
March 12, 2008 |
Ensto Control Oy Recalls Toggle and Rotary Switches Due to Electric Shock Hazards When switched OFF, one electrical pole may remain energized, posing a risk of electrical shock hazard to consumers. |
Home Toys
April 2004
John Perry |
X-10 and Motion Detectors This extension to our X-10 system has now been running reliably for over two years, and it has the added advantage of giving us advance warning when visitors are coming and when the boys get back from school. |
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. |
This Old House
Melissa & Brian Zagorites |
Lighten Up The right lighting can make your home a more welcoming, comfortable place. |
Home Toys
June 2003
Roger Stamm |
Lighting the way to energy efficiency and cost savings with whole-home lighting controls By their inherent design and very purpose, lighting controls are a way to not only save electricity and related costs, they're a fun, convenient and futuristic way to go about it. |
National Defense
August 2014
Andy Wakefield |
How to Achieve Success With Electrical Microgrids Microgrids represent a move toward greater energy safety, security and independence for the military, and ultimately, for everyone served by the increasingly stressed power grid. |
This Old House
Roseann Henry |
Can You See Me Now? We asked for a lesson in how to light a home for aging parents -- and we got a wakeup call about our own eyesight. For anyone over fifty, the most important thing in lighting design is safety. |
T.H.E. Journal
March 2000 |
New Releases - Navitar, Inc. Hi-Lite videoconference lighting from Navitar provides flicker-free, glare-free lighting for a natural onscreen image.... |
U.S. CPSC
July 22, 2008 |
Indoor Lighting Fixtures Recalled by Lithonia Lighting Due to Fire Hazard A thermal protector could be missing from the lighting fixtures, posing a risk of overheating and fire. |
Home Toys
August 2005
Steven T. Hardt |
Lighting Your Home Theater The lighting design of your home theater can create depth, shape, and elegance. When combined with dimming controls, it can effect how you live within a space and bring out the true beauty of your home theater. |
Home Toys
June 2002
Giovanni Cardamone |
Remote Keyless Entry Reference Design The purpose of the Motorola RKE Reference Design is to help embedded system engineers develop RF-based products more quickly. By providing engineers with electrical schematics, hardware recommendations, software and training materials, Motorola greatly reduces the development cycle. |
Home Toys
April 2004 |
Integrated Home Networks The focus of this article is the computer network as part of the integrated home network. |
Military & Aerospace Electronics
February 2008 |
RF MEMS Switches Deliver on Early Promise The market for radio-frequency micro electromechanical systems (RF MEMS) devices will grow quickly to $210 million in 2011. |
Home Toys
October 2004 |
Not Only X10: Everything Under Control Especially From Remote The device developed by Iriave Electronics is a hardware interface that allows control data communication over the power line. |
Home Toys
December 2002
Phil Kingery |
A Better X-10 Interface: The TI103-RS232 All about the TI103 PCC interface from Advanced Control Technologies, Inc. |
Entrepreneur
November 2007
Amanda C. Kooser |
Meet the Jetsons The high-tech home of the future is in reach today. |
National Defense
October 2014
Christina Munnell |
Energy Efficient Lighting Could Help Military Save Money Lutron Electronics' lighting technologies could help the military lower energy costs, company executives said. |
Food Processing
December 2011 |
New Lighting Regulations for Food Processors in 2012 The Department of Energy phases out incandescent, other bulbs for energy efficiency. |
U.S. CPSC
June 10, 2008 |
Progress Lighting Recalls Ceiling-Mounted Indoor Light Fixtures; Lights Can Fall Posing an Impact Hazard A cable that supports the light fixture from the ceiling can fail, causing the fixture to fall and injure nearby consumers. |
The Motley Fool
August 23, 2005
Rich Duprey |
Color Kinetics Lights Up Victory The solid-state lighting pioneer savors a summary judgment on a patent infringement case. Its stock soared more than 25% today on the news. |
U.S. CPSC
March 3, 2010 |
Outdoor Lighting Fixtures Recalled by American Electric Lighting Due to Shock Hazard Improper wiring in the light fixtures poses a shock hazard to consumers. |
