|
Monday, 24 May 2004 |
The UK Home Automation community have been meeting annually since 2001. The "UKHA2004" event was held on the 15th and 16th May 2004, in Ramada Jarvis Hotel in Hatfield, near London. This year we booked the three largest conference rooms in the Hotel. The Pioneer and Endeavour suites were used for exhibitor's stands. We had 18 companies and individuals demonstrating their systems. The third room, the Comet suite, was used for presentations.
My review of the show is now online (7,500 words plus pictures and links). If you'd rather read the review offline, on your PDA, or print it, then an Adobe Acrobat PDF version is available for download... |
|
|
Monday, 17 May 2004 |
 Idratek have finally launched their website...
"At IDRATEK, we believe that smart home technology should deliver just that. No gimmicks, nor cumbersome and expensive products, but instead a truly useful automation environment for real homes.
To deliver such capabilities an automation system must be able to provide efficient and streamlined integration of a large number of sensors, appliances, and information systems. It must be reliable, robust and practical, but also importantly - affordable.
The IDRATEK automation system provides just such a solution, and at a realistic cost. Through the straightforward networking of our technologically advanced modular products and the deployment of our intelligent software, a hugely powerful autonomous system can be achieved."
Idratek are also now selling their modules. You can get in touch with them via the SHOP link on the new site... |
|
|
Monday, 10 May 2004 |
 We are pleased to announce the addition of "Dynalite" to the list of exhibitors at this years UK Home Automation event.
"As an industry leader, Dynalite is committed to creating superior home automation, lighting control and energy management systems, setting new benchmarks in performance and efficiency. From a stock exchange in Shanghai, to a luxury resort in Dubai, from a smart home in Sao Paulo to limestone caves in New Zealand, Dynalite's innovative solutions deliver Intelligent Light."
With Dynalite's generous contribution to the prize draw we now have over £5,000 worth of home Automation prizes to give away over the two days... |
|
|
Thursday, 06 May 2004 |
 We've just added several new boards to the Forums Area of the site.
Among them is a new "Bulk Buy" section. Currently there's a discounted group purchase of CCTV cameras and GeoVision systems being organised.
We've also added a "Commercial Offers" section where retailers are free to add their offers to the Home Automation community.... |
|
|
Thursday, 22 April 2004 |
|
The UK Home Automation 2004 event is now less than a month away, and you only have 8 days left to pre-register at the discounted rate!!
We've two exciting additions to the exhibitor list to announce today.
BARIX
Johannes Rietschel, CEO and Silvan Sauter, Technical Manager of Barix will be flying in from Zurich, Switzerland. Barix are manufactures of a wide range of Home Automation and Distributed Audio products and in conjunction with Laser will be showing their Exstreamer and Wireless Exstreamer network MP3 players and the Barionet Universal network-enabled automation interface... |
|
|
Wednesday, 07 April 2004 |
 Scott Ewing has created a little "How-To" on how to join the UK Home Automation Internet Relay Chat (IRC) channel.
It's at the bottom of the CONTACTS page HERE |
|
|
Thursday, 25 March 2004 |
 We have four copies of "Inside the Smart Home" to give away to our readers! All you have to do to enter is sign up for a free user login to this site. That's it! The winners will be chosen at random over the next few weeks.
An account on Automated Home will allow you to post to our FORUMS area as well as sending private messages to other home automators.
To get a free account click HERE (we do not share your email or any other details with any third party!)
"Inside the Smart home is invaluable reading for anybody interested in designing smart technologies for the home. Through the use of detailed case studies from such international giants as Orange, Ariston, Philips Electronics and Electrolux, this book clearly demonstrates what will be possible for our domestic settings in the future if we continue to develop the concept of the Smart Home. The RRP is £35.00" |
|
|
Tuesday, 23 March 2004 |
|
I'm sitting in the departure lounge of an Airport waiting to fly home after an exciting day at Clipsal headquarters in the UK. The technical seminar was taken by Clipsal's "top brass" who had just flown in from Oz. Despite my pleads I am unable to show you any photos or talk about any of the new products we saw :( Suffice to say however, that the future for C-Bus is a bright one... |
|
|
Wednesday, 17 March 2004 |
|
Charmed Quark Software is proud to announce the 1.1.3 release of CQC (The Charmed Quark Controller), its Windows based, distributed control and automation software suite. CQC provides a secure, network distributed, highly integrated control and automation solution, including a powerful backend architecture, highly customizable front end, user based security, object oriented macro and driver development language with graphical IDE, and supports X-10, IR, socket, serial, and USB devices... |
|
|
Saturday, 28 February 2004 |
Important Announcement
One of the services we offer at AutomatedHome is the ability to grab the headlines to view on your PDA via AvantGo, and some of our subscribers may have noticed that since the re-launch of the site there have been numerous outages of this service.
Since the relaunch of the site our hosting service has noticed a massive increase in traffic from the AvantGo servers retreiving the news.
Our developers are working with AvantGo to try and resolve the problem, and to that end we implemented a fix to get the AvantGo servers to cache the content to try and reduce the number of requests we were receiving. We made this change live on Tuesday of this week, but it soon became apparant that this wasn't going to solve the problem... |
|
|
