Smart Home IO

Planning for a smart home these days is not easy to do as more and more connected devices enter your living space each year. The earlier you have a plan together for your electronics system the better off you will be in the long run with technology rapidly speeding along. What electronic planning ultimately means is getting the correct amount of wires necessary for your needs in the correct quantity and in the correct locations. This is especially important when building a new house as your home is open and free to run these wires without the hindrance of finishing home materials such as insulation and drywall. Another important part when planning for a smart home is the design of your system which is ultimately your wants and needs. Discovering your wants and needs is done with discussions with a qualified home technology/integration specialists. They can help guide, suggest and plan for your future system and even go as far as creating engineered documents to follow when

Random access memory (RAM) is a hardware electronic chip component that all of the current laptops and computers have in order to operate properly. The amount of programs and services that can be run on a computer at the same time can be attributed  to the RAM. If your RAM memory is low when using your computer then you could experience sluggish and slow performance when computing. Over the years many computer users keep adding programs and services to their computers without removing any and this can cause what we call a bloated computer and is slowing you down.RAM is easily upgradable to laptops and desktops alike. Upgrading your random access memory in most cases is simple to do can have a profound affect on the performance of your computer especially if you are experiencing a slow computer on start up. Please see the link below to search for your computer RAM's to help give your computer a boost of speed and performance. Search for RAM

Smart Home lighting control has come a long way since the Vigilite light switch timer. Lutron and Vantage home lighting control have both advanced leaps and bounds within recent years.With the advent of the smartphone and apps running our lives, the logical progression in lighting is to go forth on your smartphone or tablet and control all that can be controlled. The amount of money it takes to get into a lighting control system has dropped dramatically. Now the 99% can get in on the action without having to put another mortgage on the house to get some great lighting control functions and usable features. Vigilite as seen in the picture above was a device from the lighting control past that only served one purpose and could not even connect to an iOS application. Who wants that? It remains on the lighting control shelf with the clapper and the lamp timer everyone in the 90's that took a vacation had in their junk drawer. The future of lighting control is ev

Works with Nest connectivity service was popularized with the learning thermostat and Google's purchased line of connectable devices which now has opened up some of the possibilities for integrating the Nest devices to a larger managed system. Control 4, Crestron, RTI and Amazon's Alexa are just a few of the systems that are now able to be paired and integrated with your Nest thermostat. This is great news for those who love the look and feel of the Nest thermostat but prefer to have your home managed with one system or app interface. (Less is More!) Below is a list of the current devices and services that can Work with Nest. Wemo - Switch Lifx - Light Bulb Rachio - Smart Sprinkler Controller Skybell - Video Doorbell Phillips Hue - Smart Lights Misfit - Sleep Tracker August Home Haiku - Ceiling Fan Amazon - Echo & Alexa Chamberlain - MyQ Home Control Hayward