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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Ting from Whisker Labs Helps Prevent Home Electrical Fires Reviews

Ting from Whisker Labs Helps Prevent Home Electrical Fires

Whisker Labs developed its award-winning Ting smart electrical monitor to help prevent home electrical fires. Whisker Labs provided me with a Ting sensor to evaluate and see if it lived up to the marketing. According to the Electrical Safety Foundation International, home electrical fires account for an estimated 51,000 fires each...
Rescu Wants to Keep Smart Homes Safer with Its Monitored Security App Reviews

Rescu Wants to Keep Smart Homes Safer with Its Monitored Security App

The traditional way to keep your home and family safe has been to install a security system and link it with a professional monitoring company that will automatically contact emergency services when the alarm system has been triggered by a fire or intruder. Professional monitoring companies have existed for many years and can...
Smart Cooking with the Multo by CookingPal Reviews

Smart Cooking with the Multo by CookingPal

Not every household is lucky enough to have a family member that is an excellent chef. A close friend of mine has no fond memories of the meals prepared by her own mother, and another has told stories about food that she had to endure at when visiting her aunt. Carry-out is one solution. Meal service plans offer another alternative....
A Template for Writing a Crestron Home Extension Driver Reviews

A Template for Writing a Crestron Home Extension Driver

I wouldn’t describe the process of learning to write a driver for Crestron Home as a learning curve. It’s more like a learning cliff. Without the help of Daniel Berlin and Oliver Hall, I don’t know if I would have made it through the process. Both were very generous with their time and showed an incredible amount of patience...
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....
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