When I chose A to Z Smart Home Ecosystems for a title to this group of articles, it seemed natural, since four of the major "environments" that I loosely dub "eco-systems" are Apple HomeKit...
In building their eco-system, Apple's kept it somewhat closed, as they have their own standards. HomeKit is the "home" of those standards for home automation. If a company wants their...
Welcome to our Smart Home discussion of Personal Assistant based home automation eco-systems The two most, well known, geared for the mass market personal assistants developed at this time, are...
The Lutron Caséta is a lighting control system that primarily consists of a smart wireless bridge, light switches (in-wall or plug-in), and dimmers. The Caséta line is the lowest of...
The Fibaro system is a smart, wireless, Z-wave compatible, 4-color, controller for LED light strips. It supports the 3 traditional RGB (red, green, blue) channels, as well as those LED...
LIFX is a Wi-Fi-enabled smart LED light bulb brand with four current models: the Color 1000, the Color 1000 BR30, the White 800 and the White 900 BR30. They are...
The Roost smart lithium battery - one of the most common sense ideas to emerge for the smart home! The Roost battery makes it easy to make your smoke, carbon...
The BeON Home is part-smart light bulb, part-home protection system! The idea is for your house when you’re home to be virtually indistinguishable from your house when you’re away on...
The Nanoleaf Aurora is as much a minimalist, modern art installation as it is a lighting fixture. It is outfitted with color-changing triangular LED panels that are so lightweight, Nanoleaf...
In just a few short years, Nest has become pretty synonymous with "smart thermostat" – not quite like Kleenex has for "facial tissues" or Band-Aid for "sticky bandages," but along those...
