Jay Basen

Jay Basen

Jay Basen has been a home automation hobbyist for over 30 years and has worked professionally in the industry for almost 20 years. His professional background is electrical engineering and software development. He has a master's degree in engineering and has been writing software professionally for over 40 years. To read more of Jay's articles, visit his blog http://topicsinhomeautomation.blogspot.com/

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Wave for Work Integrates Genki's Wave Smart Ring in Zoom, Etc. Tech

Wave for Work Integrates Genki's Wave Smart Ring in Zoom, Etc.

Wave for Work is a brand-new product that integrates Genki’s Wave Smart Ring into business applications, creating a very convenient and small remote control for Zoom and other business applications. Due to COVID-19 people have been turning their homes into remote offices. Even with vaccines being administered on a scale that could...
Book Review: 'My Robot Gets Me – Take Smart Home Design to the Next Level' Tech

Book Review: 'My Robot Gets Me – Take Smart Home Design to the Next Level'

My Robot Gets Me – How Social Design Can Make New Products More Human by Carla Diana Harvard Business Review Press When you really think about it, a smart home really isn’t very smart. You tell Alexa “turn on the light” and the light in the room you are in turns on. You press a button on a wall-mounted keypad, and a...
Remote Service of a Basic Smart Home with Inexpensive Hardware Uncategorized

Remote Service of a Basic Smart Home with Inexpensive Hardware

Service calls are very expensive, in many cases unnecessary, and in this day and age unwanted by homeowners. Fortunately, planning up front for remote service of the smart home system only requires the addition of a few pieces of inexpensive hardware to the project. Writer’s Note: Thank you Tony Golden at Mobile Technology in...
How to Use Amazon Alexa for Whole-House Audio System Control Reviews

How to Use Amazon Alexa for Whole-House Audio System Control

According to eMarketer, Amazon is expected to maintain a dominant 70-percent market share of the U.S. smart speaker market into 2021. It is no wonder that most smart home manufacturers have integrated Alexa voice commands into their platforms. In addition, there has been a trend toward a voice-first approach for smart home control....
Allterco Robotics Adds Shelly Motion Detector to Smart Home Line Reviews

Allterco Robotics Adds Shelly Motion Detector to Smart Home Line

Allterco Robotics has added a new IoT motion sensor, the Shelly Motion, to its Shelly product line that I believe many people will find useful in their smart home designs. I recently wrote about the line of Shelly IoT relays. Shelly smart home products are manufactured by Allterco Robotics, one of seven companies that make up the...
Aeotec Z-Wave Sensors Expand a Smart Home’s Understanding of the Real World Reviews

Aeotec Z-Wave Sensors Expand a Smart Home’s Understanding of the Real World

Aeotec Z-Wave Sensors are the first Z-Wave devices to be certified and released using 700 series  technology. The 700 Series update provides better security, a more powerful CPU for faster automation, improved range, 64-percent less power consumption for battery life of up to 10 years. Aeotec makes a wide range of Z-Wave sensors and...
How to Integrate the Garage into a Smart Home Reviews

How to Integrate the Garage into a Smart Home

A garage can easily become the forgotten stepchild of a smart home. After all, homeowners typically spend very little time there. There are, however, a number of different ways to make an overhead garage door smart. Let’s explore the differences between a smart overhead garage door and a dumb one. A garage, of course, is just a...
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