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Creating the Human-Centric Home
Getting started on selling and installing the wellness technology that improves your customers' everyday lives.
Going Forward
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Concealed AV: Now You See It…
Best practices for configuring concealment solutions that balance home aesthetics and AV requirements.
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CEDIA Expo 2021: Together at Last
Jason McGraw, Group Vice President, CEDIA Expo & KBIS, Emerald, talks about how the organization plans to keep attendees and exhibitors safe at CEDIA...
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How Integrators Can Be Ready for Anything in 2021
Tips on adding new product categories, training staff, and increasing business.
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Industry Reflections from SnapAV
Kordon Vaughn, VP marketing, campaigns & creative at SnapAV, offers the company’s views on current trends and where the industry is heading.
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Modular Solutions for Lighting Design Challenges
Five scenarios where modular lighting solutions can help achieve the client’s goals.
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Managing the Zoom Boom
High-quality home conferencing brings in additional opportunities for integrators.
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Wireless Audio: SKAA’s the Limit
Meet the wireless audio standard that promises near-zero latency and eliminates compatibility issues.
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Why Audio Over IP?
Long used in professional audio applications, AoIP is now heading to homes.
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Power [Quality] to the People
The country’s electrical infrastructure isn’t going to get better, so we need to prepare solutions for our clients.
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The Evolution of Tradeshows
Current conditions have created a lasting impact on how we convene, learn, and receive product demos.
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The Smart Home Buyer Journey
Do the purchase of smart speakers lead to a full smart home conversion? Parks Associates investigates.
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(Re)defining the Smart Home
More robust networks, expanded use of AI and voice control, and maximizing streaming quality are among the current smart home priorities.
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The Single-Platform Smart Home
Shared platforms, standardization, and system interoperability will bring big opportunities in 2020.
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Opportunity Knocks at KBIS. Will You Answer?
KBIS 2020 was a banner year for technology in the kitchen and bath, presenting integrators with a treasure trove of opportunities waiting to be...
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Home Acoustics and Wellness
Steve Haas, CEO and principal consultant of SH Acoustics, sees acoustical design as enhancing not only home theaters, but also the health of all...
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Dante Comes Home
Long used in the commercial world, Audinate’s networking platform solves large-scale AV distribution challenges for residential installs.
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The Sonos Solution
How the smart audio company works with the custom installation community to make the world sound better.
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Branching Out
Screen Innovations explains the decision to expand into shades, and what it has learned in the process.
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Expansion Strategies for Smart Home
Do smart vents, smart beds, and smart major appliances belong in your business?
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Legrand View
Having acquired a number of companies with strong residential ties, Legrand | AV lays out its goals.
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Diversify with DIY
Typically thought of as the enemy to CI, DIY products can help attract new business.
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2019 CEDIA Expo Preview
Brian Pagel, senior vice president, Emerald Expositions, pulls back the curtain on what we can expect to see in Denver this September.
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How to Train Your Integrators
Vincent J. Bova, dealer experience manager for RTI, discusses the company’s goals and the future of its recently launched multi-tiered training program.
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The Future is Interactive
How Josh.ai plans on changing the way consumers interact with their smart homes.
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Key Trends in the Smart Home
Parks Associates offers research into where the connected home will be heading in 2019.
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What’s In Store
Azione Unlimited’s Richard Glikes predicts what the upcoming year will bring to the CI channel.
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Preparing for the “Silver Tsunami”
Smart home devices provide a direct way to improve the elderly’s health.
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RTI’s APEX Programming Software Highlights Refreshed Company
RTI’s now-shipping new programming platform combines time-saving automation with the complete freedom to design custom control experiences that RTI hopes will set dealers apart...
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Monitor Audio’s 6th Generation Silver Shines
U.S. and Canadian distributor Kevro International recently introduced Monitor Audio’s sixth-generation Silver line of speakers, featuring trickledown technology from the brand’s new Platinum II...
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NAD Electronics With BluOS: A High-Res Reintroduction
With the BluOS-equipped NAD line, customers can opt for a professionally installed, rack-based, hardwired audio solution–but with the reassurance that they can also easily...
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iPoint Updates Business Management Platform
iPoint, which launched as a grassroots business management software provider for the home technology market in 2013, has updated iPoint Control, its flagship business...
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Legrand’s Brand Strategy
Legrand, known primarily in the custom channel as the parent company a growing list of home integration brands, including Nuvo, On-Q, Middle Atlantic, Vantage,...
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Wider Sweet Spot: Solving 50 Audio Integration Problems
In an Omni hotel suite during CEDIA, Grimani provided a lengthy explanation of the design process and what makes his speakers unique.
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Selling Service Agreements
The survival of custom integration as a trade might be contingent upon the industry’s evolution into customer-centric service operations with a focus on personalized...
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Applied Training
Acoustic Architects uses the ESC certification Pre-Test Assessment to screen and evaluate job applicants.
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Florida Home Gets One of Sony’s First Ultra Short Throw 4K Projectors
When Randy Rock first contemplated moving full-time with his wife Lydia to their winter residence in Boynton Beach, FL, he faced a tech-lover’s dilemma.
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A Faster Smart Host
Savant went to its annual integrators conference Austin, TX, last month to unveil a smaller, single-chassis version of its Smart Host home-automation controller and...