HIddenWires • August 9 2016

Brand Focus on Control4 with Paul Williams

Paul Williams, Vice President of solutions for Control4, joined the company nearly 13 years ago when it was just in its infancy. Starting out as Control4’s Vice President of Operations in 2004, Williams is currently charged with heading up product management and R&D efforts for the brand’s lighting, HVAC, AV, security, and communications product lines and solutions.

HIddenWires • January 22 2016

Brand Focus: Beale Street Audio's Mark Cichowski

Beale Street Audio’s Executive Director Mark Cichowski, whose career is approaching 40 years in the AV industry, talks with HiddenWires about the company’s unique go-to market strategy, the technology driving Beale Street’s audio design, and why it is was important to burst out of the gate at world-record speed.

HIddenWires • January 22 2016

Brand Focus: Origin Acoustics's Jeremy Burkhardt

Previously the creative brain behind the popular SpeakerCraft brand, Burkhardt “retired” in 2012, but few of us thought he would remain so for long.

HIddenWires • January 22 2016

Brand Focus: Steve Muccini of Ihij

Steve Muccini, director of marketing for remote management services company Ihiji, has more than 20 years experience driving strategy and marketing initiatives for technology-based B2B companies.

HIddenWires • January 22 2016

Brand Focus: Pulse Eight's Martin Ellis

Based in Poole, Dorset, in the south of England, Pulse Eight is a relatively new brand on the custom home integration scene. Headed by Martin Ellis, the company initially launched to sell a remote control and has evolved over the past five years to manufacturing video matrix solutions.

HIddenWires • January 22 2016

In the Field: Nick Caripis of BNC Technology

HiddenWires talks with Nick Caripis, Founder and Managing Director of BNC Technology in Johannesburg, South Africa.

HIddenWires • October 26 2016

DDoS Attacks and the Growing Security Concerns of IoT

A DDoS (distributed denial-of-service) attack on Domain Name System (DNS) provider Dyn last week brought Internet of Things cybersecurity under intense scrutiny.

HIddenWires • September 8 2016

Brand Focus on Control4 with Paul Williams

Paul Williams, Vice President of solutions for Control4, joined the company nearly 13 years ago when it was just in its infancy. Starting out as Control4’s Vice President of Operations in 2004, Williams is currently charged with heading up product management and R&D efforts for the brand’s lighting, HVAC, AV, security, and communications product lines and solutions.

HIddenWires • September 13 2016

Interview: Vin Bruno, CEO of CEDIA

CEDIA CEO Vin Bruno has been on the job for one year and will see the fruits of some his labor at this week's upcoming CEDIA Expo in Dallas. Bruno talks with HiddenWires about his role in shaping this year's theme and what we should expect on the show floor.

HIddenWires • August 2 2016

ISE's Mike Blackman on the Marriage of AV and IT

Last year, Integrated Systems Europe’s Managing Director Mike Blackman predicted even bigger things for ISE 2016, including more space, more exhibitors, and an attendance to surpass the 50,000 that walked the RAI in 2015.

HIddenWires • April 27 2016

Lighting and Shade Control in the IoT Age

As the future of home automation continues to morph into an everyday reality, dictated more and more by networked solutions that unify home environments, the need to fully integrate control of lighting and shades, and by extension interior climate, has produced new approaches aimed at underscoring ease of use.

HIddenWires • February 2 2016

Domestic Affairs

The slow enmeshment of custom residential integration with the quickly emerging smart home market has been a defining theme for many of our industry’s gatherings in the past few years. It can be argued that custom integration has laid down the frame work for what is now an enthusiastic embracing of all things connected home, smart home,  and the ever peaking Internet of Things.

HIddenWires • February 19 2016

Brand Focus: Mitchell Klein of The Z-Wave Alliance

Mitchell Klein joined the Z-Wave Alliance as executive director in September 2015 with more than 30 years of experience in the CE and smart home industries. As the director of business development for Universal Remote Control for eight years, Klein was a key member of the senior team that grew URC from a remote control company to a smart home integration system supplier to the CEDIA channel.

HIddenWires • September 8 2015

Energy Management: Custom Control and Monitoring are Still Key

Climate change, as one of the most critical and debated crises of the modern age, has rightfully impacted everything from government policy to farming to manufacturing.

HIddenWires • May 5 2015

Illuminating Factors: Lighting Control Steps Up Role in Home AV Solutions

Lighting control and home automation are inseparable, though the former is often subsumed by the latter when discussing custom whole-home integration.

HIddenWires • December 3 2015

Brand Focus: CEDIA EMEA's Chairman Kris Hogg

Kris Hogg, Chairman of CEDIA EMEA, will tell you himself that his approach to business is both pragmatic and no-nonsense.An integrator that moved from installing Sun Microsystems in the early ‘00s to stepping into custom integration by using his home as a test bed, Hogg is a familiar and respected figure in our industry.

HIddenWires • March 12 2015

In the Field: Stuart Burgess of Just Add Popcorn

HiddenWires talks with Stuart Burgess of UK-based integration firm Just Add Popcorn.

HIddenWires • February 19 2015

Deutsche Telekom's Jon Carter Believes the Connected Home is Nigh

Jon Carter, Deutsche Telekom’s UK Head of Business Development, Connected Home, comes from a background filled with innovation. In 2001, while at mobile phone company, Orange he led an R&D initiative to build a demonstrable vision of a future home. The successful project was ahead of its time with connected bath taps, curtains and door locks as well as a voice-activated control system. Fourteen years on, Carter is working to bring that once radical concept to full and widespread fruition.

HIddenWires • February 15 2015

SmartBuilding Conference Overview: The Future of Smart Home Integration

The ISE 2015 Smart Building Conference, a day-long preamble to the ISE Show that was held on Monday 9 February, featured a dual-track focus on smart home automation in the commercial and residential sector—an even split this year that reflected the growing presence of residential integration manufacturers and installers at ISE.