2014 – / Automation

Insteon Announces Membership in the Thread Group

December 18, 2014 Ruslan Ulanov 1

IRVINE, Calif.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Insteon®, creators of the world’s premier home automation and control technology, today announced that it has joined the Thread Group, an industry organization dedicated to market education and product certification for Thread, a low-power, wireless mesh networking protocol designed to easily and securely connect hundreds of devices in the home. Insteon will have access to the Thread specifications, which are built on open standards and IPv6 technology with 6LoWPAN at its foundation, and will be able to certify and brand Thread-compliant products starting in the second half of 2015. “We developed Thread to provide an easy and secure […]

Insteon Announces World’s First Remote-controlled Dual On/Off Outlet

November 13, 2014 Ruslan Ulanov 0

November 11, 2014 08:30 AM Eastern Standard Time IRVINE, Calif.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Insteon®, creators of the world’s premier home automation and control technology, today announced the industry’s first dual-on/off, dual-band outlet. Now consumers can separately and remotely control each of two sockets with a degree of reliability 100 times greater than competing protocols. “Insteon’s new On/Off Outlet is yet another example of Insteon’s extraordinary range and versatility in today’s connected home” “Insteon’s new On/Off Outlet is yet another example of Insteon’s extraordinary range and versatility in today’s connected home,” said Joe Dada, CEO of Insteon. “Now consumers have significantly more flexibility as […]

INSTEON Announces Windows and Windows Phone Apps for Connected Home Control and Monitoring

May 23, 2014 Ruslan Ulanov 0

IRVINE, Calif. – March 15, 2014 – INSTEON, creators of the world’s best-selling home automation and control technology, today announced that an enhanced version of its INSTEON app will be available for Windows 8.1 and Windows Phone 8 devices as of June 1, 2014. The app comes with exclusive new features, making home automation even easier for everyone, from the ultra-techie to the average homeowner. Quickly following the release of the INSTEON app for Windows PCs, tablets and phones, INSTEON connected home devices will come to Microsoft retail stores. The INSTEON family of devices turns any home into a connected […]

Introducing SmartThings Labs

January 9, 2014 Ruslan Ulanov 0

Today at the International CES 2014 Physical Graph Corp. introduced the SmartThings Labs, a new category in their SmartApps catalog that will give users early access to up and coming features currently undergoing the beta testing. The three products we’re debuting in the SmartThings Lab are currently being showcased in our #HelloSmartHome connected house at CES: Philips hue, Belkin WeMo, and Sonos. Supposedly integration for other products demoed at the CES (like Jawbone and the August smart lock) will be coming to SmartThings Labs in the coming months. For more information on the new SmartThings Labs apps please see SmartThings Blog.