IoTPlaybook Insight: Custom home owners can be demanding, so Colorado-based integrator Cinegration filled a builder's 6,000 sf personal home with IoT and AV of all kinds.

Excuse this interruption to Cyber Monday shopping, but now’s the time to plan out the rest of the year. Not the work, the important stuff: vacation time. There are three full weeks before the week of Christmas, so pick your days off quickly.

IoTPlaybook Insight: Theater Advice thought they had seen and done it all … until they landed this every bells-and-whistles project for a 12,000-square-foot home in Texas. Anything is possible, thanks to IoT home automation advances, but not necessarily easy.

Welcome to the week of Thanksgiving, at least in the United States. More than a dozen other countries celebrate some type of holiday with this name or something similar.

Run your private LoRaWAN The Things Stack network server on a Raspberry Pi with balena.

Momentum around 5G continues to build, bringing challenges and opportunities in equal measure. Avnet spoke with Molex Global Product Manager Mike Hansen to find out more about the role copper interconnect plays in the development of the next high-speed cellular network.

OK, here’s your official warning to do your holiday and end of the year business shopping (for the tax deduction) sooner, much sooner, than later.

IoTPlaybook Insight: CEPro describes a project a local integrator did for a large Florida home that needed 12 zones of audio playback.

IoTPlaybook Insight: Pure play IoT companies are maturing to the point of buying each other, as we see with Level Home buying Dwelo to get into the multi-tenant market. Along the way, Level Home's Series C round of funding brought in $100 million from Cox Communications and Walmart.

November is shorthand for wet, cold, and messy weather for most of the country, and this year’s version starts this week. Rain sweeps from the Midwest to the Northeast, pushed by a cold front dropping 3-5 inches of white stuff across the upper Great Plains.