Items Tagged With zwave

LinuxMCE is of course a open-source media centre distro.  But did you know you can use it as a home automation controller as well?  Other goodies are lurking under the bonnet too such as the integrated Asrerisk VoIP system, already pre-configured for many providers and phone hardware.  Read on for the overview of this amazing free system...

In the fourth of our video interviews from this years Smart Home Show we talk to Chiu Lu Yung from Cytech, manufacturers of the Comfort smart home security system.   Chiu shows us round some of the new additions to the range, including the Z-Wave serial interface we announced last month.  We also look at the new design of the door station as well as a biometric interface and a new CCTV option...

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CE Pro have news on a new range of z-wave door locks from Schlage.  Having a door lock that can be controlled and monitored from a computer or cell phone sounds like some sort of home automation perfection but that's exactly what you can do with these puppies via a Z-Wave to Ethernet gateway...

Danish based company Modstroem have developed an interesting new Z-Wave based electricity monitoring system.  The device includes a small digital camera that mounts on the meter to read energy consumption...

Last week at the Smart Home Show we interviewed Chiu from Cytech (video of our interview coming soon).  In our chat he showed us some interesting products, amongst them the brand new Z-Wave UCM interface for Comfort...