Smarthome

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Co-Founded in 1992 by Joe Dada, Smarthome is a wholly owned subsidiary of the privately held corporation, SmartLabs, Inc., which designs, manufactures and distributes home automation products. Smarthome retails and distributes products ranging from lighting control systems and home automation, to security and surveillance, as well as, a variety of other gadgets.

1 History
2 Product Line
3 See also
4 External links

[edit] History

"The privately held Irvine, Calif-based company started as a home automation catalog retailer in 1992." In February, 1995 SmartLabs' Smarthome joined other internet pioneers and launched its retail website, Smarthome.com. Smarthome "got into the technology development side when it acquired Home Run Automation and Compco. With its new cache of engineering talent, Smarthome launched efforts to improve home automation products by developing a new protocol and a new chip." Most recently, "SmartLabs, Inc.(TM), the world's leading authority in home control and automation, has won the AeA High Tech Award for Innovative Technology of the Year for its INSTEON(TM) wireless home control technology. The AeA Orange County Council made the announcement at its 13th Annual High Tech Innovation Awards ceremony on May 18." Yahoo! Finance (2006-05-22). SmartLabs' INSTEON Wins AeA High Tech Award for Innovative Technology of the Year. Press release.

[edit] Product Line

"Today, headquarted in Irvine, California, the company develops and sells a growing range of automation products through its online store, Smarthome.com. The Web site offers about 7,000 products and continues to add about 30 new products a week to the inventory -- everything from remote-control light dimmers to in-wall touch screens." Pisani, Joseph. "Raising Your House's IQ", Business Week Online, 2006-05-18. They carry over 50 proprietary lighting control products designed by SmartLabs Design. These proprietary products use INSTEON technology, developed by a group of engineers at SmartLabs Technology. "SmartLabs' INSTEON home control networking technology uses a simple, low-cost combination of wireless and power line communications to link core home systems such as lighting, security, comfort control, consumer electronics, appliances and safety sensors for remote monitoring and control." Yahoo! Finance (2006-05-22). SmartLabs' INSTEON Wins AeA High Tech Award for Innovative Technology of the Year. Press release.Smarthome Direct, SmartLabs Design and SmartLabs Technology are all divisions of the parent company, SmartLabs Inc.