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UK smart home security system AlertMe continue to go from strength to strength and last month secured £8M in series B funding.  When we first reviewed the product in May 2008 we said it was an ideal hub for home automation and CCTV with its link to the Net. AlertMe added their SmartPlug product earlier in the year and today have announced their IP CCTV add-on for the system. 

The camera is a Sercomm RC8021 unit with wired Ethernet and wireless 802.11g WiFi capability too.  It's VGA resolution (640x480) 30 FPS, with dual MPEG-4 and M-JPEG streaming plus support for 3GPP to mobile phones.  Read on for the introductory discount offer on the new camera...

Cytech, creators of the Comfort smart home security system, have just released their new Prontoscript file for the Philips range of Wi-Fi universal remotes.  The free download gives full keypad emulation as well as control of C-Bus, EIB / KNX and X10 with others like Z-Wave, Dynalite, Ulti promised in the future,  Read on for all the details...

Cytech have just launched upgrade packages aimed at existing users of their Comfort Intelligent Home System.  Users with installations using the original Comfort 1 system introduced in the UK in 1999 will be able to upgrade to Comfort 2.  This brings the the new family of products that includes slave expansion modules (SEP01-M2), UCM05 (RS232, Ethernet and USB), UCMs for C-Bus, KNX/EIB, Z-Wave, HDL, GSM, CWM02 Webserver etc to all users...

Cytech Europe Limited is the UK distributor of the Comfort Intelligent Home System that incorporates an intruder alarm system, a home automation system that can control lighting, appliances, heating and airconditioning, an 8 mailbox voicemail system and doorphone intercom system.  "Comfigurator" is the software to program the system, and V3.0 has just been released for download...

We reported on the Schlage LiNK Z-Wave powered door locks back in May last year.  They're now available to buy in the USA and a new iPhone app is available to control your deadbolts across the Ether...