Integration Guides
Selling Shades in the Smart Home
Shade control proves to be an integral part of the AV package.
Karen Mitchell
Integration Guides
Getting Smart on Security
Some tips on including security in your smart home proposals.
Integration Guides
The Integration Guide to Automation 2019
Many customers think they know what home automation is, but they don’t see the full picture.
Integration Guides
Integration Guide to High-End Audio 2019
When it comes to selling high-end audio, hearing is believing.
Resources
Integration Guide to Networks 2019
Managing Your Client’s Networks: How to deal with the ever-growing demands placed on home networks.
Resources
The Integration Guide to Security Systems and Cameras
Security systems merge with smart homes to make monitoring and control easier than ever.
Resources
The Integration Guide to Projectors and Screens
It’s a simple question with a complex answer: what’s the latest on projectors and screens?
Resources
Business Software: The Right Stuff
Choosing the right employees will help to ensure that your projects run smoothly. Choosing the right business software will ensure that they run at...
News
HAUS Trains Dealers to Prosper in Home Automation
Three years ago, when home automation industry veterans David Daniels, Mike Thul, and John Carlen saw an opening and opportunity in the broad market...
Technology
What Lies Beneath
Sometimes it really pays to take that final cruise around the exhibition floor.
Features
Right from the Source
What if you turned in a customer service review to the integration company that installed your home media center, and in return, you received...
Features
Success in Triplicate
For a retired couple with homes in Colorado and north of Dallas, a new residence in Austin is a wonderful retreat.
Connectivity
Reconnecting in an Automation-Heavy 9,800-Square-Foot Home
“So a guy walks into a showroom...” Thus begins the odyssey of one of Shawn Hansson’s favorite success stories, a $420,000 design and installation...
Features
Worth the Wait
Missouri Integration Firm Provides a Client with the Home Theater That He Always Wanted ...
Technology
Slaying the Vampire
The standby energy vampires won’t suck your blood, just your wallets, and maybe your conscience.
Features
Living Large
Two years ago, prominent private theater designer Theo Kalomirakis, founder of TK Theaters, and his VP of sales and marketing James Theobald envisioned...
Features
At the Crossroads
”CEDIA, what have you done for me lately?” is more than a rhetorical question these days, as veterans and newcomers of the 20-year-old...
Features
Lessons from Our Founders
The year was 1989. The B-52s and Duran Duran topped the charts. Driving Miss Daisy took the Oscar for Best Picture, and a new...
Connectivity
Just Lift It
They lift and they lower. They rotate, swivel, and tilt… all on command. The flat-panel TV motorized lift market is a niche that continues...
Features
With the Utmost Simplicity
Contemporary vancouver home offers sophisticated and discrete blend of technology Marriage changes everything, even residential systems integration. So it was for a LaScala Integrated...
Features
On the Road Again
You could say that Frank Konigseder Jr.’s business plan is a moveable feast of fully integrated control products to rival any landlocked system. ...
Archive
Cloud Nine
BlissHTA Traveled to the Rockies to Create a Multi-million-Dollar Project for a Long-Time Client
Features
Trade Partners
System Integrators are Learning to Collaborate with Architects, Builders, and Interior Designers
Features
The Luxury of Being Green
Ambiance Systems shows how homes can be lavish and environmentally friendly at the same time.
Archive
Instinctive Control
Call it the little budget that grew. When Ron Romano met with his prospective clients in early 2002 to discuss ideas for the 8,000-plus...
Archive
A Penthouse View
State-of-the-art technology, impeccably installed but never obvious, heard but not seen. Thats the design ticket to a 7,800-square-foot penthouse on Fisher Island.
Features
The Arts and Crafts of Theater
Baumeister Electronic Architects brings 90-year-old former summer cottage into 21st century.
News
EDGing Out the Competition
CEDIA Dealer of the Year, Electronics Design Group, Relies on the Vision of Veteran Leaders
Features
Well Grounded
Cabling Technologies, a system integration company, has formed a symbiotic relationship with Advanced Electronic Systems LLC, a security firm.
Archive
All in the Details
An unmovable basement door was one of a few recent challenges faced by Broomall, Pennsylvania's Hi-Fi House in the design and installation of a...
Archive
At the Rush Hour
It was a short move, only three miles as the crow flies. But for Richard Ades, the opening of a spectacular new demo facility...
Features
Company Cultures Reflect Personality and Strategy
When Todd Rosencrans was busy immersing himself in the music culture of the early 1980s, it never occurred to him that he was building...
Archive
Custom Installers Think Twice About Showroom Investments
f you build it, they will come, arriving by appointment or just walking in to savor the experience of a custom installation. For established...