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Home Toys
December 2004
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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.   |
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. |
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
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 2006
Eugene Kowch |
Programmable Logic Controller By integrating the remote with the programmable logic controller, you can control the lights and curtains in the same room as the audio/video equipment. |
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
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. |
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. |
| This Old House |
Product Innovation: Remote-Controlled Lighting Easy, affordable ways to get whole-house lighting control without rewiring. |
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. |
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. |
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 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. |
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. |
This Old House
Eric Hagerman |
Say What? Translating Smart-Home Geek Speak From Apple HomeKit to Z-Wave, common smart-home jargon is demystified. |
