Worldline, a global player in the payments and transactions services industry, and Somfy are joining their efforts in order to develop connected services for a more comfortable home. For this purpose, both companies introduced a new proof of concept for Connected Home and Connected Car services. The connected home is a demonstration for a robotic […]

A recent case study on ingenious home products concludes that the key determinant in the success and adoption rate of ingenious products is consumer acceptance and trust in the products. The ingenious home products market is expected to flourish on the condition that certain obstacles, like the price, are resolved. The study also indicates that […]

More and more manufacturers are focusing on smart home appliances. Smart washing machines, dishwashers and refrigerators will appear on the market in the future. Those appliances will be able to communicate with a smart meter enabling to operate a certain time depending on peaks and dips in electricity demand. The Smart Home project will help […]

Busch-Jaeger launches its new home automation system “Busch-free@home”. This system can be easily managed by a wall mounted switch, PC, laptop, smartphone or tablet. The basis is 2-wire bus technology in which actuators can be installed centralized or decentralized.  

Samsung, Nest Labs (Google) and some other companies have created the THREAD group. The THREAD alliance has the ambition to launch a new wireless network protocol enabling more than 250 devices to communicate between each other.

A house is considerated as passive when the energetic demand for heating (and cooling) isn’t higher than 15 kWh/m². The Passive-Live system does even better and proofs that the zero energy house can be realized.  All data from energy monitoring, measured temperatures, air quality, etc. are collected via the KNX home control automation system in […]

The KNX Experience Home is an intelligent house equipped with home automation. This experience home allows people to get (more) interested in home automation. KNX is the open standard for home and building automation.

The research study “Domoticakompas” concludes that care instances and construction companies use home automation for elderly housing. Regarding the large-scale implementation, there is still a long way to go. The study recommends to invest in knowledge share, cooperation and citizen participation. Source: http://www.han.nl/onderzoek/nieuws/masi-mohammadi-domoticako/

After the acquisition of Nest Labs, Google continues to invest in home automation by buying Dropcam. Dropcam is a cloud-based Wi-Fi video monitoring service that can be accessed from a smartphone anywhere in the world. Dropcam makes it easy to check in on your home.

Apple has announced at his developers conference that iOS 8 for mobile operating systems will be launched at the end of this year. Apple adds several functions to this OS like the HomeKit for user-friendly home automation. HomeKit is a new framework for communicating with and controlling connected devices in a user’s home. HomeKit is […]