by Home Toys | Feb 1, 2011 | Lighting And Automation Systems
Why Simply-Automated? To be honest, that decision was made several years ago and I don’t remember all the reasons, but I know the basics. First off, why UPB: At the time, Z-Wave wasn’t as mature as it is now, and I’ve read about issues with having to...
by Home Toys | Jun 1, 2008 | Lighting And Automation Systems
The WGL All Housecode Transceiver V572RF32 Author: Bobby Green The V572RF32 is the brainchild of Warren Lohoff, a San Antonio electronics engineer and home automation expert and head of WGL Associates. It is their flagship transceiver, and receives all 16 housecodes...
by Home Toys | Dec 1, 2007 | Lighting And Automation Systems
Home automation technology is becoming as synonymous with sustainability as it is with convenience. Incorporating smart home technology into a new or existing structure makes it easier to reduce energy consumption and the carbon footprint (your impact on the...
by Mark Colegrove | Aug 1, 2006 | Lighting And Automation Systems
The promise of home automation has been with us for many years and you can see it on a small scale in many forms. The washboards, ‘ice boxes’ and wood stoves of yesterday have become the automatic washing machines, refrigerators and HVAC systems of today. The...
by Robert D. Findlay, Bill Lynch, Graham McCormack | Apr 1, 2006 | Lighting And Automation Systems
“Complexity must be grown from simple systems that already work” From Out of Control by Kevin Kelly Introduction In our previous Home Toys paper we described how the IO Anywhere network appliance could be used as a Home Automation Portal Appliance in...
by Home Toys | Feb 1, 2006 | Lighting And Automation Systems
Lighting control has come a long way since two scientists developed X-10 around 40 years ago. X-10 has grown to provide lighting control at affordable prices— appealing to approximately fifteen million X-10 users. Although affordable, X-10 has faced reliability...
