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Batteries Big Enough to Run Your Whole House from Rosewater Energy Group

September 25, 2012 by Ted Leave a Comment

Photo of Joe Piccirilli of Rosewater Energy Group
Joe Piccirilli, Rosewater Energy Group

At this month’s CEDIA Expo, no sooner had I finished an interview on the show floor when I saw what looked like two huge caskets standing on end and side-by-side. That’s a little dramatic, they didn’t really look like caskets, just two huge rectangular racks standing about eight-feet up in the air. Curiosity drew me to Rosewater Energy Group’s booth where I discovered an old friend: Joe Piccirilli (formerly of AVAD and Sound Advice).

Those monstrous boxes (actually a little over 7-feet tall, the display base they were shown on made them look taller) really contain a lot of technology and take power conditioning to a whole new level.

See why Rosewater’s “Storage Hub” was even more impressive than it looked… [Read more…] about Batteries Big Enough to Run Your Whole House from Rosewater Energy Group

Filed Under: Industry Trends, Manufacturers, News, Shows & Events, Specialty, Strategy, Tech Trends Tagged With: CEDIA Expo, green technology, home automation, Joe Piccirilli, power conditioning, residential energy storage hub, Rosewater Energy Group, UPS

Energy Squad Wants to Help Integrators to Catch the Green Wave

September 21, 2012 by Ted Leave a Comment

Photo of Energy Squad Founder Jonathan Stovall
Jonathan Stovall, Energy Squad Founder

Sometimes the best ideas are the simplest. When I ask business owners and executives to tell me why they started their business, you’d be surprised at the mushy gobbledy-gook I’m often offered in response. So when strata-GEE.com readers at the CEDIA Expo pointed me in the direction of the Energy Squad booth – I was skeptical. Was this another tech head playing with toys who’ll be here-today and gone-tomorrow?

Boy was I in for a surprise… [Read more…] about Energy Squad Wants to Help Integrators to Catch the Green Wave

Filed Under: Distributors, Industry Trends, Marketing, News, Shows & Events, Strategy, Tech Trends Tagged With: Bethesda Systems, Energy Squad, green marketing, green technology, Jonathan Stovall, LED lighting

AudioXperts Korners the Market

September 19, 2012 by Ted Leave a Comment

Photo of AudioXperts President Eli Harary Showing KornersThe recent CEDIA Expo was, as usual, dominated by hundreds of companies engaged in a seemingly endless and often mindless rash of line extensions – effectively burying us in a sea of products of uninspiring incrementalism. This year, however, thanks to the diligent effort of many of strata-GEE.com’s and ALERT’s  readers and followers that we saw at the show – we were often pointed us in direction of some hidden gems. Thanks to you, we were successful in uncovering wisps of innovation from a few new or reincarnated companies.

One such interesting start-up, whose launch we recently reported on here, with a follow-up story here, is AudioXperts. At Expo, AudioXperts showed us an interesting new product concept they call Korners.

And Korners may just represent the first successful attempt to bring peace in our industry’s biggest and bloodiest war… [Read more…] about AudioXperts Korners the Market

Filed Under: Associations, Industry Trends, Manufacturers, Marketing, News, Shows & Events, Specialty, Strategy Tagged With: AudioXperts, Boston Acoustics, CEDIA Expo, Eli Harary, Infinity, JBL, Klipsch, Klipschorns, Korners, subwoofer

Expo Keynote: TV Personality Delivers a View That’s Fun, Futurisitic and Funny

September 19, 2012 by Ted 4 Comments

Photo of Dr. Michio KakuThis year’s Keynote Presentation at the CEDIA Expo earlier this month was given by well-known physicist and television personality, Dr. Michio Kaku. Kaku is undeniably well-qualified to talk about technology…and the future. And although the official title of this keynote presentation was “The Intuitive Home of 2016,” – like all great keynote speakers, Kaku ignored that topic and spoke on one closer to his heart – the physics of the future.

And what a wild future he envisions… [Read more…] about Expo Keynote: TV Personality Delivers a View That’s Fun, Futurisitic and Funny

Filed Under: Associations, Consumer Trends, Industry Trends, Research, Tech Trends Tagged With: CEDIA Expo, Federico Bausone, Michio Kaku

You Don’t Know LEDs Until You NuLEDs

September 18, 2012 by Ted Leave a Comment

Photo of the NuLEDs Booth at 2012 CEDIA Expo

>>See a slide show of photos from the NuLEDs booth at CEDIA Expo<<

Prior to CEDIA Expo, I knew very little about LED lighting systems, but I learned a lot after meeting with Frank Sterns, new Chief Operating Officer (COO) and President at NuLEDs. The remarkable NuLEDs PoE IP-addressable LED lighting system brings a new level of control, flexibility, programmability, and energy efficiency to the market. It’s a cool system that offers a new profit opportunity to industry integrators and installers.

PoE…it’s what’s nu in lighting…

[Read more…] about You Don’t Know LEDs Until You NuLEDs

Filed Under: Associations, Industry Trends, Manufacturers, Marketing, News, Shows & Events, Specialty, Tech Trends Tagged With: Android, Apple iOS, Cisco Systems, Frank Sterns, IP-addressable, Joulex Energy Manager, LED, LED lighting, Mike "Sparky" Detmer, network, Niles Audio, NuLEDs, PoE, Power over Ethernet

EXCLUSIVE: Nortek’s Core Brands Clears the Air with strata-GEE.com in Exclusive EXPO Interview

September 13, 2012 by Ted 4 Comments

Nortek's Core Brands LogoThe 2012 CEDIA Expo launched with a bang for me as I previously reported when, upon entering the convention center, I was collared by a PR person who quickly walked me (without explanation) to a high-level executive for a Nortek company who felt the need to tell me – in compelling and direct terms – what he thought of strata-GEE.com’s coverage of the Core Brands consolidation. (Hint: he didn’t like it.) After a few minutes of somewhat hot-under-the-collar conversation, things cooled off a bit and he offered to get me together with the Core Brands management to clarify the situation.

Now we’re getting somewhere… [Read more…] about EXCLUSIVE: Nortek’s Core Brands Clears the Air with strata-GEE.com in Exclusive EXPO Interview

Filed Under: Brands, Industry Trends, Management, Manufacturers, Marketing, News, Pivot Point, Shows & Events, Specialty, Strategy Tagged With: Aton, Bill Pollock, BlueBOLT, CEDIA Expo, Core Brands, Dave Keller, Elan, Furman, Keith Marshall, Niles, Nortek, Panamax, Paul Starkey, PR, Proficient, public relations, SpeakerCraft, Sunfire, Xantech

CEDIA Releases New Market Data It Says is Even More Accurate

September 12, 2012 by Ted Leave a Comment

Erica Shonkwiler of CEDIA Market Research
Erica Shonkwiler
CEDIA Market Research

At last week’s CEDIA Expo show in Indianapolis, IN, the trade group released select market data from their second annual survey called the Size and Scope of the Residential Electronic Systems Market in the US 2012. Although compiled and released this year, the data is actually from 2011 and is a follow-up to the same report they excerpted last year for 2010.

See results from this new survey and find out why CEDIA says it’s more accurate than ever… [Read more…] about CEDIA Releases New Market Data It Says is Even More Accurate

Filed Under: Associations, Industry Trends, Marketing, News, Research, Shows & Events, Survey, Tech Trends Tagged With: CEDIA Expo, electrical contractors, Erica Shonkwiler, ESCs, home networking, home theater, installers, mobile devices, security installation companies, wireless

EXPO Attendance Declines Again

September 10, 2012 by Ted 2 Comments

2012 CEDIA Expo LogoThen Custom Electronic Design & Installation Association (CEDIA) today released attendance data from last week’s Expo in Indianapolis, IN and it was a mix of good news and bad news. Let’s get the bad news out of the way first. Total attendance at the event came in at 16,900, down 4 percent from last year’s attendance of 17,600. This figure is also the lowest recorded attendance since 2001, coming in 1.8 percent under that year’s attendance level of 17,200.

But is there a silver lining?… [Read more…] about EXPO Attendance Declines Again

Filed Under: Associations, Economic Trends, Industry Trends, Marketing, News, Shows & Events, Specialty, Strategy, Tech Trends Tagged With: Aaron Hemp, Automation Design & Entertainment, CEDIA Expo, CES, Crestron, custom integration, Digital Projection, INC Systems, ME Products, Michael Bridwell, Peter Cook, Rob Fisher, Sean Goldstein

Seeing CEDIA Expo in a Whole New Light

September 7, 2012 by Ted Leave a Comment

Keynote speaker Dr. Michio KakuWednesday, the day before the 2012 CEDIA Expo opens its show floor, is both the day many integrators come to the convention center to take educational classes – and also the press comes for a day full of press conferences.

I approached the event this year with a high level of anticipation, as our strata-GEE.com CEDIA survey suggested that attendance might be better than originally anticipated. As I approached the convention center, I was surprised by the lack of activity around the outside of the hall. Then a CEDIA hotel shuttle bus showed up and – suddenly – we had a fair amount of activity.

Little did I know that when I entered the hall, I had a rather intense surprise waiting… [Read more…] about Seeing CEDIA Expo in a Whole New Light

Filed Under: Associations, Industry Trends, Manufacturers, Marketing, News, Shows & Events, Specialty, Strategy, Tech Trends Tagged With: Bethesda Systems, Bill Pollock, CEDIA Expo, CES, Cisco, Core Brands, Dr. Michio Kaku, Energy Squad, Jonathan Stovall, Keith Marshall, Key Digital, LED, Nortek, nuLED, Paul Starkey, PoE, Power over Ethernet, Proficient, Rosewater Energy Group, SpeakerCraft

Nortek Noise Continues – Xantech President Hallett Leaves Company

September 4, 2012 by Ted Leave a Comment

Photo of Graham HallettBREAKING NEWS
Multiple industry sources have confirmed that Xantech President Graham Hallett has resigned his position with the company, effective September 1st. Xantech is one of ten Nortek, Inc. brands being consolidated under the new “Core Brands” umbrella company, the formation of which we recently reported.

Since the consolidation of the various Nortek brands began back in 2010, there have been many employees leaving the company – mostly at lower- and mid-level positions. Recently, however, some of the top-level executives of the various Nortek brands have joined the exodus.

List of Nortek’s ex-execs continues to grow…

[Read more…] about Nortek Noise Continues – Xantech President Hallett Leaves Company

Filed Under: Industry Trends, Management, News, Pivot Point, Strategy Tagged With: Audio ReQuest, Bill Pollock, Core Brands, Dave Keller, Graham Hallett, Harman Kardon, Keith Marshall, McIntosh Labs, Nortek, Paul Starkey, Xantech

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