home automation

AlertMe, the award-winning home energy management service, announced the launch of AlertMe Energy, giving consumers the ability to monitor their home energy usage online and act on that information to reduce their bills and carbon footprint. AlertMe Energy includes easy-to-install hardware and an online service that can be accessed from any Web browser. It is also tightly integrated with Google PowerMeter, making it easy to track energy consumption live from an iGoogle home page.

HSTouch integrates tightly with all HomeSeer-based automation systems and the screens are fully customizable to work with virtually all backgrounds, buttons and graphics. An integrated RSS browser is also included for easy access popular data feeds for weather, news, sports and stock information.

FREEVOLVE, the designer and manufacturer of housEvolve, the first remote home access system, is very happy to announce they are partnering with Smarthome to expand distribution of their product line. Smarthome, a division of SmartLabs, Inc., was founded in 1992 and specializes in the distribution of home automation products. With more than 5,000 products available, Smarthome’s sales channels include Smarthome.com, their award-winning direct mail catalog and their brick and mortar retail store located in Irvine, CA.

Perceptive Automation has announced the release of Indigo version 4.1.  According to Perceptive Automation this new version is an update to the company's intelligent home control and automation server for Mac OS X.  The Indigo software is a whole home automation system that can manage your lawn sprinklers, home appliances, lights, thermostats and many more equipment and appliances that can be manage – thereby helping you to save energy and money.

Conrol4 has agreed with Luxul Wireless, a developer of high-performance wireless signal propagation technologies, to promote and distribute Pro-WAV™ solutions to its nationwide dealer network.  Pro-WAV from Luxul Wireless are designed designed to efficiently expand the coverage area and improve overall network performance, by enabling a single access point to provide complete "whole-home" 802.11 Wi-Fi coverage.

Swiss based Noser Commercialization for Android, a division of Noser Engineering Inc., founding member of the Open Handset Alliance and contributor to the Android core libraries, and US based Touch Revolution an Original Design Manufacturer(ODM) for touch devices have partnered to bring to market Android-based home smartphone, home automation controllers, television remote controls, and medical devices among others.

DMi D&M Europe has announced the launch of Escient Zone, its exclusive powerful, cost competitive, integrated CI home control system. The launch of Escient Zone this month is accompanied by an extensive programme of product support and training for DMi appointed installers.