In the Field
Outdoor AV Week: Southern Exposure
A newly constructed Baton Rouge mansion gets a well-connected outdoor entertainment system courtesy of Acadian Home Theater & Automation.
Changing the Power Dynamic
Savant provides solutions for all homeowners and their dealers to fully take charge of their energy management and control.
Leveling Up Your Outdoor AV Design
The rise in popularity of outdoor systems brings with it increased client expectations.
What’s So Smart About Smart Homes?
A look at what consumers expect from their smart homes and how custom installers can expand their views.
Finishing Luxury Installs in Style
Tech solutions that sync with premium surfaces create new business opportunities for integrators.
Human-Centric Lighting: The Light Fantastic
Human-centric lighting adds new ways to enhance customers’ lives — and complexities for dealers.
It’s a Wonder Wall
Future Automation & Design employs a Planar video wall to turn a luxury home’s large blank space into a work of art.
The Finish Line: Ways to Increase Value
Preparing your company to be sold — even if you have no intent in doing so right now — makes a ton of business...
Creating Your Lead Generation Flywheel
Keep the pipeline flowing with this consult-producing engine.
Bridging the Gap Between Design and Tech
An architect’s unique concept home provides a challenging proving ground for AV and smart home integration.
Tech Showcase: DIY Products
These DIY offerings can make life easier for integrators and their DIFM clients.
The CEDIA Podcast: Why We Teach What We Teach
A chat with Steve Rissi, CEDIA’s director of technical training.
Review: Russound MBX Streaming Audio System
Russound offers its own take on a streaming audio solution.
Making the Automation Connection
What you need to know when you are looking to switch your automation partner, or add a new one.
What to Expect at CEDIA Expo
A brief preview of some of the products coming to Denver this September.
Case Study: Connected Cottage
AV-over-IP infrastructure delivers high-end viewing and listening experiences across a sprawling luxury property.
Riding the Wellness Wave
Delos looks to the custom install market to introduce a new level of service for clients that revolves around enhancing their health through improved...
Case Study: Video Lifestyle
Utah’s Tym uses Just Add Power’s Ultra HD Over IP system to create video distribution that offers wide flexibility to accommodate client needs.
Supercharge Revenue By Increasing Your Average Sale
How to increase sales from clients you already have.
Smart Above and Golf Below
How Source Home Theater worked with their client to exceed expectations, get additional work, and build an award-winning install.
The Business of Selling Simplicity
Does this sound familiar? The client wants simplicity but asks you for solutions that you know will provide the opposite result. If you argue,...
Preparing Your Business for the 2018 Recession
How many different streams of revenue does your company have? One? Two? What would happen if one of them dried up? Are all of...
Are You Ready for Wireless Power?
Most long-distance wireless power systems today lose as much as 50 percent of their energy into thin air.