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Smart Home
Smart Choices
At the recent ALA Conference, Terry McGowan emphasized to showrooms and manufacturers that ignoring the smart home category is not a “smart” move for a profitable future.
BY LINDA LONGO
Fresh from attending the ENERGY STAR® Partners Meeting just days before the American Lighting Associa- tion (ALA) annual conference started, ALA’s Director of Engineering Terry
McGowan, FIES, LC, told the audience, “In the last week, things have changed in the connected home environment. We’ve got [products] all over
the place talking to you, talking to others, but not necessarily to each other. Our homes are more complicated, as well as more connected. There are lots of devices that are controlled remotely and can even report to you [referencing popular products such as Nest and Ring]. So far, they’ve all been working independently more or less, but that’s all about to change.”
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