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It takes some smart people to create a smart home. Luckily, CEDIA, the Association for Smart Home Professionals™, just happens to know about 30,000 of them. The Integration Conversation lets you tap into the minds of the people responsible for defining excellence in the industry as they create beautiful, technology-rich experiences in homes around the globe. Hosted by the community, for the community, each episode explores a new topic, from on-the-job insights and business growth strategies to emerging technology trends and collaboration with allied trades.
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Now displaying: November, 2019
Nov 29, 2019

Two CEDIA-Award-winning firms, The Pyramid Group (UK) and The Premier Group (US) talk about what makes a great CEDIA Awards entry, and how to use the awards to generate more business.

The Cavern, by The Pyramid Group:

https://cedia.net/insights/cedia-blog-detail/blog/2019/11/27/how-they-did-it-the-cavern

Sophisticated Lakehouse, by The Premier Group:

https://cedia.net/insights/cedia-blog-detail/blog/2018/10/18/how-they-did-it-sophisticated-lakehouse

Nov 22, 2019

Camera types, frame rates, pixels per foot — this podcast covers everything you ever wanted to know about installing home surveillance for your clients. Our guest is Michael Cogbill, VP of Engineering at ETC Simplify.

https://etcsimplify.com/

Nov 15, 2019

One word that's key to an integrator's credibility (and as a result, profitability) is "competence." Defining that word (and putting it into practice) properly is critically important when you're building and maintaining a business in the universe of tech. This rollicking roundtable includes Peter Aylette from Archimedia and CEDIA staffers Samantha Ventura, David Meyer, Walt Zerbe, and Ed Wenck.

For more on CEDIA, check out cedia.net.

Nov 8, 2019

Walt Zerbe and G. Paul Hess of SnapAV recently attended a conference on remodeling at The Harvard Joint Center for Housing Studies, and here’s what they discovered.

Walt’s also been on a recent webinar presented by The Farnsworth Group on this very subject. For more info, check out www.thefarnsworthgroup.com

www.snapav.com

www.cedia.net

 

 

Nov 1, 2019

Mike Heiss (M Heiss Consulting) attended the MWCA (Mobile World Congress Americas), and reports back with a ton of info on 5G, Wi-Fi 6, and much more. He took photos, too, which you can find here:

http://cedia.net/docs/default-source/insights/mwca-2019.pdf?sfvrsn=2

 

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