[Ian Harris] designed a bunch of home automation for his parents using ... s documented the journey in a four-part series about mesh networks. The hardware seen above is his test rig.

Z-wave is another wireless protocol commonly used in home automation. Like Zigbee, it operates on a mesh network and focuses ...

San Francisco – Home-automation startup Avi-on Labs launched a crowd-funding campaign to bring its Bluetooth mesh-network home-automation products to North America in the spring. The devices will ...

For end users, the technology is most likely to be of use in home automation applications. A mesh network would allow for the inter-device network to be more durable and to work around obstacles ...

Yes, current Wi-Fi-based smart home technology can turn on the lights with your smartphone or voice. But do you call that home automation ... low-power wireless mesh networks, especially those ...