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| 2025 |
Air conditioning
Market projections indicate PDRC technologies are expected to reach approximately $27 billion in market size for indoor space cooling.
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| 2024 |
Home Assistant
Home Assistant became the top open source project on GitHub's 'State of the Octoverse' with more than 21,000 contributors to the core application.
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| April 2024 |
Home Assistant
Transfer of Home Assistant source code and brand name ownership to the newly created Open Home Foundation non-profit organization, ensuring continued open-source status and privacy focus.
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| 2023 | Rebranded from Continental Automated Buildings Association (CABA) to the Association for Smarter Homes & Buildings (ASHB) to better reflect its contributions to the smart home and building industry. |
| September 2023 |
Home Assistant
Nabu Casa announced 'Home Assistant Green', an entry-level computer appliance designed to help new users get started with Home Assistant, featuring an Ethernet port and two USB ports, but lacking built-in IoT radio support.
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| March 2023 |
Home Assistant
A full authentication bypass vulnerability was discovered in Home Assistant, receiving a critical CVE score of 10/10, affecting Nabu Casa's remote access solution and potentially allowing unauthorized full control of Home Assistant servers.
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| June 2022 |
Home Assistant
Home Assistant developers announced 'Home Assistant SkyConnect', a multi-protocol IoT USB radio dongle supporting Zigbee and Thread wireless protocols, enabling plug-and-play support for Home Assistant's Zigbee and Thread/Matter integrations.
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| 2021 |
Z-Wave
Silicon Labs releases the 800 series chip, which supports Security 2 standards and introduces Secure Vault technology, enabling wireless devices with PSA Certification Level 3 security.
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| 2021 |
Z-Wave
Z-Wave's 800 series chip is released, featuring improved security and battery life over the 700 series.
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| September 2021 |
Home Assistant
Nabu Casa launched a crowdfunding campaign on Crowd Supply for 'Home Assistant Yellow' (initially called 'Home Assistant Amber'), a new official home automation controller hardware platform with advanced IoT radio capabilities.
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| January 2021 |
Home Assistant
Home Assistant made a second security disclosure about another security vulnerability which was fixed.
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| January 23 2021 |
Home Assistant
Home Assistant released version 2021.1.5 which addressed the previously disclosed security vulnerability.
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| January 22 2021 |
Home Assistant
Home Assistant publicly announced a directory traversal security vulnerability found by cybersecurity analyst Oriel Goel in custom third-party integrations.
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| 2020 |
Lightware
Lightware announced the Taurus UCX, a technological innovation using USB-C technology to transmit video, audio, control, and Ethernet signals through a single cable to enhance collaboration.
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| 2020 |
Air conditioning
A survey found that 88% of US households use air conditioning, rising to 93% for homes built between 2010 and 2020.
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| 2020 |
Air conditioning
A study was conducted examining the correlation between lower air conditioning usage and higher rates of heat-related mortality and hospitalizations.
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| December 2020 |
Home Assistant
Home Assistant introduced automation blueprints, allowing users to add pre-made community automation templates to their smart home systems, enhancing customization and ease of setup.
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| December 2020 |
Home Assistant
Home Assistant introduced a customized ODROID N2+ computer appliance called 'Home Assistant Blue', an officially supported hardware reference platform pre-installed with Home Assistant OS, including a custom-themed enclosure.
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| November 2020 |
Thread
Apple released its first Thread product, the HomePod Mini, marking its entry into the Thread networking protocol ecosystem.
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| September 2020 |
Z-Wave
Z-Wave Long Range (LR) specification was announced, introducing a significant improvement in transmission range up to several miles and increasing network scalability to 4,000 nodes.
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| January 2020 |
Digital Addressable Lighting Interface
Tunable white (Tc) colour control method was added to DALI-2 certification, becoming the most popular colour control technique in the Digital Addressable Lighting Interface standard.
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| January 2020 |
Home Assistant
Branding adjustment: Renamed main software to Home Assistant Core, and the full suite with embedded operating system to Home Assistant (also known as HAOS).
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| 2019 |
Digital Addressable Lighting Interface
DiiA continued to develop and publish additional specifications for DALI-2, further expanding the D4i trademark to certify products with advanced power and data integration features for small DALI systems.
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| 2019 |
Commissioning
ASHRAE released Guideline 0-2019, offering comprehensive guidance for the commissioning process in building construction and systems integration.
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| 2019 | Began working with Violet Defense to expand technological capabilities in smart building solutions. |
| 2019 |
Thread
The Connected Home over IP (CHIP) project was announced, later renamed to Matter, which involved a collaborative effort by the Zigbee Alliance (now Connectivity Standards Alliance), Google, Amazon, and Apple to create an open-source, royalty-free standard for home connectivity using Thread, Wi-Fi, and Bluetooth Low Energy protocols.
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| 2019 |
Home Assistant
Home Assistant won first place in the Thomas Krenn Award and was listed as the tenth biggest open-source project on GitHub's 'State of the Octoverse' with 6,300 contributors.
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| November 2019 |
Digital Addressable Lighting Interface
DiiA added D4i certification as an extension of DALI-2 standard.
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| November 11 2019 | A comprehensive 132-page security research paper titled 'I Own Your Building (Management System)' was released by researchers Gjoko Krstic and Sipke Mellema, detailing over 100 vulnerabilities in building management systems and access control solutions across multiple vendors. |
| July 2019 |
Z-Wave
The Z-Wave Alliance announced Z-Wave Plus v2 certification, specifically designed for devices built on the 700 platform, focusing on enhanced interoperability, security, and easier installation processes.
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| 2018 |
Digital Addressable Lighting Interface
DiiA published new specifications extending DALI-2 functionality with power and data capabilities, introducing enhanced features for intra-luminaire DALI systems covering both indoor and outdoor luminaire applications.
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| 2018 |
Light + Building
Light + Building trade fair hosted 2,719 exhibitors and 220,864 visitors, with over half of attendees coming from international locations including China, Italy, the Netherlands, France, Belgium, Russia, India, Finland, Korea, and Ukraine.
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| 2018 |
Energy management system
Ratification of the S2 Standard by the European Electrotechnical Committee for Standardization (CENELEC) as the EN 50491–12 series, establishing it as a formal European standard for device communication and energy management.
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| 2018 |
Commissioning
International Code Council published ICC G4-2018 Guideline for Commissioning, further defining systematic approaches to building system verification.
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| 2018 | Philips spun off its lighting department, which rebranded to become Signify N.V., resulting in a major corporate restructuring for Dynalite. |
| 2018 | Made multiple significant acquisitions, including Comfy in Oakland, J2 Innovations, and Enlightened smart-building companies. |
| 2018 |
Air conditioning
International Energy Agency published a report predicting increased electricity usage for space cooling to around 6200 TWh by 2050, with potential greenhouse gas emissions from space cooling expected to double from 1,135 million tons to 2,070 million tons.
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| 2018 |
Air conditioning
International Energy Agency (IEA) report revealed that energy consumption for cooling in the United States exceeded the combined energy consumption of 4.4 billion people in Africa, Latin America, the Middle East, and Asia (excluding China).
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| 2018 |
Home Assistant
Home Assistant took second place in the Thomas Krenn Award and won the DINACon 'Open Internet Award'.
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| 2018 |
Z-Wave
Silicon Labs acquires the Z-Wave business unit from Sigma Designs, becoming the primary business entity for the Z-Wave wireless standard.
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| September 2018 | Siemens Building Technologies reported having 28,069 employees worldwide as of September 2018. |
| September 2018 |
Home Assistant
Formation of Nabu Casa, Inc. to manage the Home Assistant Cloud subscription service, with funding used to support project infrastructure and full-time employees.
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| August 2018 |
Thread
Apple joined the Thread Group, expanding the alliance's membership and industry reach.
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| 2017 |
Home Assistant
Home Assistant took second place in the Thomas Krenn Award (formerly Open Source Grant).
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| December 2017 |
Home Assistant
Launch of the optional 'Home Assistant Cloud' subscription service to provide secured remote access and third-party cloud service integrations.
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| October 2017 | Opened the Siemens Building Technologies CPS Software House in Chicago, a $20 million R&D facility. |
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This contents of the box above is based on material from the Wikipedia articles Building automation, Thread (network protocol), Light + Building, Siemens Building Technologies, Lightware, Digital Addressable Lighting Interface, Commissioning (construction), Home Assistant, Z-Wave, Dynalite, Air conditioning, Continental Automated Buildings Association & Energy management system (building management), which are released under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.