Black Friday Is Now the Biggest Day of the Year for the Smart Home!
Like the calm before the storm, Cyber Monday 2019 is almost upon us. While the biggest shopping day of the year is today, retailers are hoping for big shopping days right up until Christmas. Observers can already see some early …
How Structured Wiring Can Support Smart Home Security Trends
The home security industry is changing and changing fast. Gone are the days where companies like ADT reigned supreme, providing security-conscious homeowners with fully monitored systems that connect to the home’s phone line or through a cellular module. Today, the …
How “Biophilia” Could Change How We Design Smart Buildings
If you’ve never heard the word “biophilia” before, you’re not alone. But if you’re a smart home or IoT specialist it’s worth taking note of what it means, because the concept of biophilia could be on the verge of spearheading …
How BNGs can ease internet traffic congestion
Over the years, Broadband Network Gateways (BNGs) have had to evolve to support new functionalities. Management of multiple types of access, transmission of data encapsulations, and customers have challenged the effectiveness, speed and delivery of gateways. These are management systems …
How AI will control the smart home in the near future
In recent years we’ve seen the smart home get smarter with voice-activated speakers that can control simple household functions. But with an increase in adoption of artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML), smart homes will be able to do …
Is it time to upgrade to Wi-Fi 6?
With the increase in devices connecting to wireless local area networks (WLAN), customers are demanding more bandwidth and faster throughput. The introduction this year of more products adopting the latest Wi-Fi 802.11ax standard aims to answer this demand. This new …
The IoT Security Opportunity Sitting Right Under Every ISP’s Nose
The surging smart home market is opening up exciting new opportunities for internet service providers (ISPs) to deliver essential value-added services, but maybe not in the ways you’d think. For decades, ISPs have lived and died by the different tiers …
Network Switches: Which One is Right for Your Client?
As businesses scale up and add more in-house employees, they face increasingly complex IT hurdles. What may have worked for an office with a handful of employees simply won’t support an office with five or six times as many network …
Tackling Dead Zones With Whole Home Mesh Wi-Fi
Wi-Fi dead zones. They’re every ISP’s worst nightmare. They’re also becoming more and more of a customer retention problem in the age of the smart home and high-speed internet. With so many connected devices performing critical tasks in the home, …
Remote Workers and VoIP are Changing the Smart Home Landscape
Employees working remotely is on the rise at a rapid pace, and it’s having a profound impact on what smart home builders and integrators are planning for both current and future needs in the home. Since 2005, the regular work-from-home …