Insteon
Insteon is a home automation (aka domotics) technology that enables light switches, lights, thermostats, leak sensors, remote controls, motion sensors, and other electrically powered devices to interoperate through power lines, radio frequency (RF) communications, or both. It employs a dual-mesh networking topology in which all devices are peers and each device independently transmits, receives, and repeats messages. Like other home automation systems, it has been associated with the Internet of Things.
Insteon-based products were launched in 2005 by Smartlabs, Inc., the company which holds the trademark for Insteon. A Smartlabs subsidiary, also named Insteon, was created to market the technology.
Protocol
Every message received by an Insteon compatible device undergoes error detection and correction and is then retransmitted to improve reliability. All devices retransmit the same message at the same time so that message transmissions are synchronous, thus preserving the integrity of the message while strengthening the signal on the powerline and erasing RF dead zones. Insteon powerline messaging uses phase-shift keying. Insteon RF messaging uses frequency-shift keying.
Insteon (company)
Insteon is an Irvine, CA-based developer of home automation (aka domotics) hardware and software. The technology, also called Insteon, allows light switches, lights, thermostats, motion sensors, and other electrical devices to interoperate through power lines, radio frequency (RF) communications, or both. The company produces over 200 products featuring the technology. The company partners with Microsoft,Google,Apple,Amazon,Logitech and others to deliver home automation functionality to customers.
Insteon is a subsidiary of Smartlabs, Inc., also based in Irvine, CA.
History
Insteon was founded in 2012 in Irvine, CA by CEO Joe Dada. Dada had previously founded Smarthome in 1992, a home automation product catalog company, and operator of the Smarthome.com e-commerce site. In the late 1990s, Dada acquired two product engineering firms which undertook extensive product development efforts to create networking technology based on both power-line and RF communications. In 2004, the company filed for patent protection for the resultant technology, called Insteon, and it was released in 2005. In 2012, the company released the first network-controlled light bulb using Insteon-enabled technology, and at that point Dada spun Insteon off from Smarthome.
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Once And Again
by: Anna SteinI get rid of everything
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We should wonder why we got through
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