Smart Home Archives - Essential Install

Witness The Launch Of AVA OS 2.0 At EI Live! 2025

Available right now, AVA OS 2.0 delivers a serious upgrade for this popular control platform for home automation and AV control, delivered in attractive, ergon...

Samsung Showcases AI-Powered Smart Modular Home at IFA 2025

Samsung Electronics presented its Smart Modular Home, an AI-enabled residential model designed for modular architecture, at IFA 2025 in Berlin. The concept int...

WeQuote Launches Inventory and Procurement At EI Live! 2025

Insights from WeQuote at EI Live! 2025. Register for the show here. Quoting has always been at the heart of WeQuote. Managing projects, inventory, and proc...

Inside California’s Control4 smart home Airbnb

Gordon van Zuiden of Daisy (formerly cyberManor) in Los Gatos, California, recently transformed an entire 1,300-square-foot bungalow into a Control4-powered sm...

Chowmainsoft Unveils UniFi Driver for Control4

Chowmainsoft Unveils new UniFi driver for Control4 with recorded video playback functionality via Control4 touchscreens and mobile applications. Chowmainsof...

RTI Announces New Integration with Sonos

Enhanced driver delivers advanced search capabilities and a seamless music experience within RTI control systems. RTI, manufacturer of control and automatio...

NIKO: MAKING BUILDINGS BETTER FOR OVER 100 YEARS

EI recently made an exclusive trip to the impressive HQ of Niko. Check out part one of this trip, which sees EI take a look inside the workings of one of Europ...

What does the Future Homes Standard mean for installers?

Lee Sutton, co-founder and chief innovation officer at myenergi, delves deeper into impending Future Homes Standard government policy surrounding the energy pe...

RTI Showcases Intelligent Surfaces Remotes at 2025 CEDIA Expo

RTI is highlighting its new Intelligent Surfaces Remotes at the 2025 CEDIA Expo, taking place September 4-6 in Denver, Colorado, in the AVPro Global booth 1501...

D-Tools Secures $12M Investment to Accelerate Growth and AI Integration

D-Tools has announced a $12 million Series C investment led by technology executive John Heyman through his newly formed company, StellarIQ. The funding, wh...