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Talking about Home Automation with Control4 executive

Robert Scoble — Thu, 19 Apr 2007 14:30:35 +0000

Recently I was in Salt Lake City, Utah, and met with John Yoon, vice president of marketing at Control4, a firm that builds home automation systems. These systems do things like dim the lights when you turn on your home theater. Or control your home’s temperature.

Tags: John Yoon, Control4

ZigBee’s Benefits for Home Automation

Brad Baldwin — Mon, 19 Mar 2007 16:00:39 +0000

Adding a home automation system to an existing home used to require tearing out drywall, installing thousands of feet of wire and surviving the battle of the mess and endless dust. John Yoon, VP of marketing, and Wally Barnum, a technical lead at Control4, educate Brad Baldwin on the reasons ZigBee provides the right wireless standard for home automation. Aimed primarily at monitoring and control rather than data transfer, ZigBee filled an important role to interface wirelessly to lighting, climate, and other systems. Just like WiFi became a popular consumer brand to represent the IEEE 802.11 standard, ZigBee is the moniker for IEEE 802.15.4.

Tags: John Yoon, Wally Barnum, Control4, Brad Baldwin, ZigBee

Home Automation Must Support Media PCs and Future Tech

editor — Fri, 16 Mar 2007 22:35:26 +0000

It’s more common than ever to use purpose-built hardware and software solutions, ( Xbox, firewalls and VPN appliances, Google Search appliance, etc.). John Yoon, VP of marketing, and Bill Harper, director of development at Control4, discuss the advantages to a home automation controller and accompanying lighting, climate, and media solutions. The PC is certainly an important component to the digital home. Including Media Center PCs, iPods, Apple TVs and future systems through standards-based integration allows the home owner to deploy the best solution today and still support future components and digital accessories in the home tomorrow.

Tags: John Yoon, Bill Harper, Control4