Can virtual assistants make smart homes even smarter?
Smart home technology is an ever-changing field with too many players to count. It’s tough for anyone to keep track of all the details, but smart home builders should at least have the basics covered. The first step is the …
Beyond Voice: Gesture-Based Controls for the Smart Home
Voice-controlled assistants like Google Home and Alexa are already immensely popular with your broadband customers, but their dominance may be short-lived. Just as your customers prefer their smart-home hub out of sight in a media panel, they’ll embrace more subtle …
What you need to know about MU-MIMO technology
We have more devices than ever before, and use them to power our smart homes, organize our lives –and push Wi-Fi to its limit. Your customers expect you to make sure they have all the bandwidth they need, but high-speed …
How the Internet of Things allows seniors to live at home longer
The smart home installations you work on today may include fiber, structured wiring, and a media panel to make sure all Wi-Fi-enabled features work seamlessly. The smart home installations you work on in the future may also include a network of …
Thread – a new smart home protocol to watch
Your customers want the best for their smart home. That’s why you’ve installed a structured wiring network that functions perfectly with a low-profile media panel and cables are concealed inside sleek cable raceways. So, how can they get a smart home …
Why 5G Won’t Replace Fiber or Cable Broadband
If you’ve been reading the headlines about the 5G revolution and imagining smart home installations free of splicing and connecting cable, think again. 5G isn’t going to replace wired internet anytime soon. 5G is the 5th generation in cellular networks. …
Data Security and the Smart Home
Are your customers concerned about the security of their smart home? High-profile events such as the recent WannaCry Ransomware attacks get people thinking about the safety of their personal data. Those who live in smart homes – or are considering …
How Smart Home as a Service Acts Like a Digital Butler
You’re in charge of installing a homeowner’s most important broadband service – internet access. Next thing likely to top their must-have lists is Smart Home as a Service (SHaaS). With SHaaS, the network cabling, connectors and enclosures provide the gateway …
What is the Internet of Things?
Many people are talking about the Internet of Things (IoT) as if it were the greatest thing to ever happen to the planet, but what is it exactly? The term was first used in 1999 by Kevin Ashton, a director …