Automated Home

Here’s a gadget that could be a hit over the holidays.  The Auraglow is an inexpensive remote control colour changing 10W LED lightbulb that’s available in B22 Bayonet or E27 Screw fittings. Tell yourself you bought it for its energy-saving properties, then burn it all night changing colours (and moods) as you please. While there are […]

Earlier today Belkin announced the availability of their new WeMo LED Lighting Starter Set and WeMo Smart LED Bulbs. The addition to their already well established smart home lighting system that allows users to control, schedule, customise and dim household lighting from anywhere using the WeMo app on a their iOS or Android device. The WeMo LED Lighting […]

Insteon have announced a range of four new Smart Home LED light bulbs for the UK and Europe that can be controlled remotely via apps on iOS and Android devices as well as on a recently introduced app for Microsoft smart phones and tablets. The new LED bulbs are designed to accommodate the wider voltage range in Europe […]

Elgato, best known for their EyeTV and other video devices have entered the smart home market with a raft of new products. The newly announced Elgato ‘Eve’ system will allow users to monitor conditions around their home with a range of sensors. The sensors will measure air quality, temperature, humidity, air pressure, energy and water consumption and more. Elgato say the […]

This weeks Kickstarter smart home offering promises to turn any light into a smart light. The ’emberlight’ uses Wi-Fi to control your bulb from an iOS or Android smartphone app across your home and around the world through its SSL secured cloud service. It works with dimmable incandescents, halogens, CFLs and LED bulbs and will also turn your lights on and off based on […]

Here’s the skinny from Crestron on their new range of LED lighting fixtures… Crestron has announced the latest enhancements to their line of LEDs. The new, condensed range consisting of six fixtures is now available to order across the EMEA region. All Crestron LEDs (CLEDs) replicate the smooth dimming curve, colour temperature and lumen output […]

  Here’s a novel way to add music to a room.  Just pop a AwoX StriimLIGHT into a lamp and you instantly have an energy-saving LED light with an integrated 10 watt Bluetooth speaker. You can use it to stream music from your smartphone, tablet or computer etc and it comes with its own remote […]

Control4’s Blake VanCleave gives a quick behind the scenes look at a condo in Indiana that features a Panelized Lighting system.  The panel is inside a cabinet, completely hidden away from the customer… The advantage of doing this then, is that the consumer only gets to see a single keypad in each one of these zones. The […]

Savant’s new “SmartLighting” range is an IP controlled 802.11 Wi-Fi based lighting system. Both the control system and dimmer hardware are built into the keypads, meaning the units can operate standalone, without the need for the regular Savant Mac mini based central processor.  The keypads can also be integrated into a full Savant system too but […]

Helvar have announced the launch of its 434 ENOCEAN Gateway.  The anonymous looking dome can be wall or ceiling mounted and will provide and interface between EnOceans energy harvesting wireless control switches and a Helvar DALI lighting system. Helvar is pleased to announce the launch of the 434 EnOcean Gateway – a new module which allows the integration of […]