Country Profile: KNX in Algeria
By Hichem Alikacem, CFEA. Algeria is located in North Africa and borders Tunisia and Libya in the east, Niger and Mali in the south, and Mauritania, Western Sahara, and Morocco in the west. Whilst Algeria is the largest North African country, most of its national territory is occupied by the Sahara desert, so 90% of […]
Trade Talk: The Effect of ETS Inside on the Smart Home Market
By Simon Buddle, Future Ready Homes. My dad has long since retired, but during his working life – all of it – he drove lorries. He drove them to Scotland, London, Spain, Iraq and just about every other place in between. In the school holidays, I’d often go with him. We’d take fruit and vegetables […]
Interview: Sam Pound-Jones, Ivory Egg
Ivory Egg was founded in 2005 as the first dedicated, UK-based, KNX supplier and training centre. Since then, the company has expanded across multiple territories, including the UK, Australia and New Zealand. Sam Pound-Jones joined in 2014. With a background in systems integration and financial sales, he spent the first 7 months as an account […]
Technavio Expects Global Home Energy Management Systems Market to Have a CAGR of 19% from 2017-2021
Technavio, a tech-focused market research firm, has published a new report on the global home energy management systems market, which is expected to grow at a CAGR of close to 19% during the forecast period 2017-2021. Based on geographical segmentation, Technavio market researchers categorize the global home energy management systems market into the following key […]
BSRIA Finds KNX the Leading Protocol in the European & Chinese Smart Homes and Light Commercial Markets
BSRIA is pleased to present the results of its latest Smart Home/Light Commercial market study produced in January 2017. The study, which consists of individual country reports on China, France, Germany, Netherlands, North America and UK, is forecasting a total global growth of 20 per cent in the Smart Home/Light Commercial market in 2017, with […]
IMP Seeks Vimar Account Manager and Technical Support Engineer
IMP is a well-established UK based distributor of international brands to the marine, coachbuilding and residential industries, and is the exclusive distributor for Vimar SpA in the UK. Vimar SpA is a leading manufacturer of high quality Wiring devices, automation systems, security and access control systems including KNX certified devices and their own ‘By-me’. Due […]
Juniper Research Forecasts Smart Home Automation & Monitoring Devices to Exceed 770 Million Globally by 2021
Smart Homes Getting Smarter 2017 A new report from Juniper Research forecasts that smart home automation and monitoring devices will grow to over 770 million globally by 2021, representing an eleven-fold rise from just 68 million estimated in 2016. The new research, Smart Home Markets: Entertainment, Monitoring, Automation, Health, Metering, Appliances 2017-2021, found that increasing […]
MarketsandMarkets Expects the Home Automation System Market to be Worth US$79.57 Billion by 2022
According to the new market research report “Home Automation System Market by Protocol and Technology (Network and Wireless), Product (Lighting, Security and Access Control, HVAC and Entertainment Control), Software and Algorithm (Behavioral and Proactive), and Geography – Global Forecast to 2022”, the home automation system market was valued at USD 39.93 Billion in 2016 and […]
Profile: Rafal Borek, Home of Technologies
By Yasmin Hashmi, KNXtoday. Rafal Borek is the director of Home of Technologies (HoT), a value-added distributor of electrical and engineering components with a focus on building and home automation. He is a KNX and PLC (Programmable Logic Controller) solutions expert and head teacher at the HoT training centre, and his main focus is to […]
Bemco Launches New KNX Website
UK KNX distributor Bemco has launched a new website dedicated to KNX products and training. Featuring hundreds of products from 11 brands initially, and four types of training course, the website has been designed to be easy-to-navigate and simple-to-use. It also gives a helpful background to KNX, with useful graphs and charts and a news […]