Home Heating and the 2014 CES Show

The 2014 Consumer Electronics Show has given us new information about many of the items for home heating and automation.  A new system from Lowes is making news.

Mooresville-based Lowe’s Inc. wants to help you talk with your house – literally.

The company hopes the latest wave of its Iris home automation products will lure consumers, as Lowe’s angles for a share of the growing market for systems that hook everyday appliances to the Internet.

Lowe’s executives were in Las Vegas this week for the annual Consumer Electronics Show, demonstrating the newest Iris products. A voice control unit called iVee lets you control functions such as your thermostat with a spoken command: “Turn the heat up to 70.”

Other Lowe’s products on display at the show: a water valve that can shut off automatically if it detects a leak, and smart energy meters to view and manage your power usage.

As wireless Internet connections for everything from refrigerators to light switches become cheaper and more widespread, analysts estimate the market for home automation systems will grow at a brisk 47 percent consolidated annual rate through 2018.

Lowe’s faces a crowded field with a seemingly ever-growing list of competitors. Companies such as CPI Security and Time Warner Cable already have millions of subscribers to whom they’re trying to sell home automation services. Other retailers offer home automation devices. And a variety of free apps and high-end home automation professionals want their share of the market.

The presence of a decades-old home improvement retailer at the cutting-edge show for new consumer devices shows the degree to which technology pushes into more areas of everyday life. Although home automation has been around for decades, most previous systems either cost tens of thousands of dollars or required users savvy enough to install and operate high-tech equipment.

Iris was first rolled out in July 2012. Lowes offers about 40 Iris-connected products in partnership with companies such as Honeywell, Schlage and Whirlpool.

Despite the Jetson’s television show-like sound of many of the Iris functions – Lock your door with your voice! – experts say there are solid reasons to connect your home. Chief among them, aside from security, is saving energy and therefore money.

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