Mention “smart home” to a prospective client, and they’ll immediately think of futuristic touch screens, smart thermostats, voice-activated lights, robot butlers, etc., but the real devices that make ...

Many homeowners have experienced the frustration and expense of repairing a faulty HVAC system. Today, SmartAC.com launched the first smart home gadget for monitoring the health of your HVAC system.

Presence sensors can be used with smart homes, not just to trigger when a light turns on. They can still do that, but you can ...

It’s easy to forget about your HVAC system—until it stops working and you find yourself baking in the summer heat or freezing in the winter cold. And the last thing you want to do is put yourself at ...

When it comes to smart products, less is more, and simpler is better. Contractors don’t want to have to work too hard to figure out how to install something; they simply don’t have the time. They also ...

GE Lighting’s Cync Smart Thermostat offers a simple way to take control of your home’s heating and cooling, and you can pair it with remote sensors to help eliminate cold and hot spots. But those ...

They may be small, sometimes almost invisible, but sensors are essential ingredients in almost every industrial system, whether powered by electricity, water, steam, wind, or waves. They’re going to ...

Purdue University engineers have developed a second-generation smart accumulator with oil circulation ratio (OCR) sensing capabilities for heating, ventilation, air conditioning and refrigeration, or ...

When it comes to safety at schools, most people worry about the threat of an active shooter entering school grounds. This is a true concern, but there is also another concern lurking in our schools ...

While smart homes sound great in theory, you can easily fall victim to standing in a dark room shouting at a smart speaker ...