CMHC: Automation in the Home
CMC says home automation systems use smart technologies to fully network a home’s electrical appliances, systems and amenities, allowing residents to automatically operate and monitor their entire home with a smart phone or computer connected to the Internet. Information can be received ranging from the temperature of the house to whether or not there is enough milk in the fridge. (PDF)
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CNET: Home Automation Bying Guide
CNET Network Home Automation Bying Guide provides a good overview on home automation including sections on: What kinds of 'things' can I automate?; How does home automation work?; Do I need a hub?; OK... so how do I get started?
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Home Toys: Designing Integrated Home Networks
Home Toys offers this article explaining design steps, key reasons to network, and different infrastructure devices, and explains how the computer network is a critical component of any system.
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Automated Buildings: Smart Buildings Predictions For 2013
Automated Buildings provides smart buildings predictions for 2013 including the coming of indoor positioning systems, smart becomes the new green, eye-tracking, community microgrids, cross training for IT and FM, and pilot projects for direct current infrastructure in buildings.
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Business Insider: US Smart Home Market Has Been Struggling
Business Insider says a report has analyzed current US consumer demand for the smart home and barriers to widespread adoption. It finds there are many barriers preventing mass-market smart home adoption: high device prices, limited consumer demand, long device replacement cycles, and the technological fragmentation of the smart home ecosystem.
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CABA: 2008 Connected Home Study On Consumer Attitudes
Continental Automated Buildings Association offers free download of the Executive Summary of their 2008 State of the Connected Home Market Study to investigate consumer attitudes and behaviors with regard to the connected home. (PPT)
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CABA: Connected Home Roadmap 2010 Study
Continental Automated Buildings Association consumer market study examined all aspects of the connected home marketplace. Connected Home Roadmap 2010 was a large-scale study created to provide insights into consumer attitudes concerning technologies, value propositions and future market adoption. (PDF)
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CABA: Intelligent Buildings Technologies Market Size In North America 2010
Continental Automated Buildings Association large building research project: Intelligent and Integrated Buildings Technologies: Market Size in North America 2010, provides an in depth analysis of the growing North American markets for integrated and converged intelligent building control systems ranging from environmental control technologies, to fire detection, to security to lighting systems to IT convergence.
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CABA: Technology Roadmap for Intelligent Buildings
Continental Automated Buildings Association report Technology Roadmap for Intelligent Buildings investigates concepts behind intelligent buildings, and key issues related to current and evolving intelligent building technologies. It focuses on opportunities and potential payback presented by intelligent buildings technologies, highlighting the synergy and economic advantages that can be achieved through an integrated implementation. (PDF)
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Energy Matters: Energy Efficiency A Major Australian Smart Home Market Driver
Energy Matters says the global smart home market was valued at around $24.10 billion last year and is expected to reach approximately $53.45 billion in 2022, achieving a compound annual growth rate of slightly above 14.5 per cent between 2017 and 2022. They say a major growth driver for the smart home market is growing awareness among consumers about electricity consumption and energy efficiency.
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Florida Univ: Elderly & Disabled Smart House Project
University Of Florida offers a tour of this laboratory house project from the Research Center on Technology for Successful Aging to see options being tested for assisting the elderly & disabled. Click on Take A Tour.
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Home Energy : Evolution Of Home Energy Management
Home Energy Magazine says a recently published report is projecting global revenues from home energy management (HEM) products and services to grow from $586.9 million in 2013 to $2.4 billion in 2023. The optimism behind that projection lies in the evolution of HEM products and services.
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New Deal for Buildings: How IoT is Transforming HVACR Industry
New Deal for Buildings says the tangible result of such smart technology being embedded deep into building automation equipment, including heating, ventilation, air conditioning and refrigeration systems, is that larger property owner and management concerns will be able to have equipment issues diagnosed before service technicians are required to be dispatched.
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TecHome Builder: TecHome Brilliance Awards
TecHome Brilliance Awards will salute excellence and innovation in home technology, honoring a diverse span of products, along with contractors, service providers and builders.
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WD: Smart Home As A Service
Wireless Design magazine says instead of consumers being responsible for selecting, installing, maintaining, upgrading and programming their smart home devices, Smart Home a Service service providers could do it for them. This could be a typical service provider, like a telco, cable TV or internet service providers, who are already doing this to some extent and already have ongoing billing relationship with home owners. It could also be large retailers who already have a portfolio of home services and could easily expand. It could also be large utilities as well as small regional start-ups who see the market potential to provide smart services.
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WP: Buyers Say They Are Willing To Pay Extra For Smart Homes
Washington Post says consumer polls point to smart-homes commanding higher prices and faster purchases from buyers, provided that the smart home features are installed before move-in. According to a project by Coldwell Banker Real Estate, 54 per cent of buyers (in a sample of 1,250) say that given the choice between two identical homes, one smart and one not, they'd buy the smart home.
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Home Toys: Articles On Home Technology
Home Toys magazine archives articles on home technology and automation including current Issue, library, reviews, learning, home technology demo, tips & tricks, site search tools, and more.
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Home Toys: Resource Site On Home Automation
Home Toys is a great home technology site with an online Emagazine, archives of past issues, a Library of resources, links to other Web sites, new product reviews and more.
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CTA: List Of Standards For Communications & Electronics
Consumer Technology Association developes industry standards to enable interoperability between new products and existing devices. They list standards for audio systems; video systems; television data; DTV interface; intelligent mobility; health, fitness & wellness; consumer electronics networking; modular communications interface for energy management; residential systems; augmented & virtual reality; artificial intelligence.
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CMHC: Using Home Automation For Accessible Housing
CMHC guide describes how home automation systems can control lighting, appliances, telephones, and home security to help create living spaces that are convenient and energy efficient, minimize potential for accidents, and result in a house that is able to adapt to life changes.
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IRC: Smart Home Technologies To Support Independent Living
Canadian Institute for Research in Construction Centre for Computer-assisted Construction Technologies is developing and testing smart home technologies to support independent living. These are expected to provide high quality and yet affordable supports for seniors and people with disabilities to live safely and independently in their own homes.
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NHPCI: Making Sense Of Smart Home For Home Performance
National Home Performance Council report Making Sense of the Smart Home: Applications of Smart Grid and Smart Home Technologies for the Home Performance Industry discusses evolution and future prospects of smart technology to enhance energy efficiency and home performance. (PDF)
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Bob Vila: Best 9 Smart Home Gadgets Of 2015
Bob Vila ranks the nine best smart home gadgets of 2015. The list includes: Amazon Echo, Keen Home Smart Vent, WallyHome Water Sensing System, Switch from iDevices, Nest Cam, MyQ Garage Door Opener, Roost Battery, SkyBell Wi-Fi Video Doorbell and the Neato BotVac.
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CABA: Best-Practices Guide for Evaluating Intelligent Buildings Technologies
Continental Automated Buildings Association online Best-Practices Guide for Evaluating Intelligent Buildings Technologies consists of criteria by which intelligent building technologies can be evaluated. The topics in this guide are important for various audiences, such as building owners and managers, intelligent building designers, installers. (PDF)
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CABA: Life Cycle Costing Of Intelligent Buildings
Continental Automated Buildings Association report Life Cycle Costing of Intelligent Buildings identifies barriers to adopting life cycle costing and determines what issues need to be rectified in order to make life cycle cost processes more understandable. Free registration required.
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CEDIA: Find System Designers & Installers
Custom Electronic Design & Installation Association provides both designer and installer certification programs, and supplies an online search for a list of their members in your local area.
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Fraunhofer: Energy Savings From Five Home Automation Technologies
Fraunhofer report Energy Savings from Five Home Automation Technologies: A Scoping Study of Technical Potential provides results from their research into connected thermostats, HVAC zoning, window covering controls, lighting occupancy controls and circuit-level controls. (PDF)
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MaRS: Smart Automation Enables Home Energy Management
MaRS Market Intelligence report The Connected Home: Smart Automation Enables Home Energy Management, summarizes interviews with seven early-stage Canadian companies that are helping shape the connected home and HEM landscape. Their profiles highlight the companies' approaches to the market as well as their products. (PDF)
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