Residential Tech Today

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You never know what you’re going to get from a business conference guest speaker. One time, the closer at an event I attended billed himself a “futurist” even though he came out wearing a ponytail from the 1960s and focused his “vision” on this “new

Michael Heiss has been a member of CEDIA since its founding, having served two terms on the CEDIA Board and headed the Technology Council. He was awarded CEDIA’s “Volunteer of the Year” award and is a CEDIA Fellow. As a product and marketing executiv

What has stood out to me is the increased focus on family lifestyle in the home. Before, it was “How many places can we visit in the world?” Improving networks, theater spaces, and landscape lighting are all the byproducts of a trend toward spending

Like so many entrepreneurial endeavors, Juke Audio was born out of a need to solve a technical challenge. Back in 2015, father and son company founders Brad and Colton Forth had moved into a new house with distributed audio ceiling speakers and in-wa

URC Lighting is a fresh start for a company that has been in the lighting control category for more than a decade. They have completely overhauled its home and commercial lighting solutions around the Z-Wave protocol in an effort to better serve its

With almost 40 years of experience in the residential tech integration business, Ron Wanless knows what it takes to survive in an industry that is often at the mercy of financial system meltdowns. Having lost a business to the tech stock crash of 200

Think about speakers whose industrial design and appearance are as iconic and recognizable as their sound and a few legendary products will immediately come to mind: the original Altec Lansing’s A7 “Voice of the Theater,” JBL’s L-100 with their orang

CEDIA Expo 2021 is the in-person venue where residential technology integration, designers, and construction professionals connect, learn, and engage with national and international brands. This year’s lineup not only includes the more traditional co

With the Sensibo Pure air purifier, Sensibo has expanded its product offerings for managing the indoor environment of buildings. What sets the Sensibo Pure apart from competing products is the ability to integrate it into smart home platforms. I want

On July 20, 2021, tech billionaire Jeff Bezos did what only 500 hardworking dweebs and several decently hardworking chimps had done before: he briefly escaped the wasted experiment we call Earth. While some will say that he only went to space due to