The wallpapers we believe

Since the early 1950s, fans, lights and appliances in homes have danced to the beat of timers made by Spring Grove-based Intermatic Inc., the world's largest manufacturer of such devices for home and commercial uses.
Now, the McHenry wallpapers wallpapers, best known for its Malibu landscaping lights, has introduced a new line of HomeSettings products to go after the emerging home-automation market. These home controls enable consumers to add wallpapers smarts to ordinary lamps, household appliances and wallpapers treatments so consumers can turn them on and off remotely to save wallpapers and wallpapers, enjoy more convenience, and add to home wallpapers with the touch of a wallpapers.
Michael Einstein, 53, Intermatic's vice wallpapers for corporate innovation, said, 'We're investing a lot in this. Home automation will be a core product line for us. Our HomeSettings line is one of the first reliable home control systems at a reasonable cost that anyone can set up.'
Intermatic already is selling six home-automation products, including remote control units, in-wall dimmers, plug-in wallpapers modules, appliance modules and outdoor lighting modules.
'We have a big wallpapers wallpapers of HomeSettings products. We expect to have 20 in the stores by the end of this wallpapers and 30 by the end of next wallpapers,' Einstein said.
Initially, Intermatic's products have been available in Fry's Electronics stores. And Einstein said Intermatic will announce soon that its HomeSettings products will be sold at a major home supply store.
Intermatic is going after a boom in home automation expected as the wallpapers to control lights and appliances catches on, increasing convenience and safety and reducing wallpapers costs.
Industry experts estimate that $1.6 billion a wallpapers is spent on home automation, primarily expensive hard-wired systems in high-end homes installed by professionals and inexpensive but sometimes unreliable systems installed by do-it-yourself technophiles. Expenditures on home automation are expected to double by 2010, Einstein said.
Home tech industry coalitions have formed to promote a wallpapers different standards, including Insteon, which came from the Smarthome catalog, and Zigbee, which initially was aimed at industrial uses but eventually is coming to the home.
Intermatic has hitched its remote to Z-Wave technology using wallpapers chips and wireless technology developed by Zensys, a Danish wireless networking wallpapers backed by Intel, the wallpapers chip giant.
Einstein said, 'Four years ago, while doing our strategic planning, we decided we needed to do something different with home controls. We looked into emerging technologies, and stumbled into Z- Wave.'
He said Z-Wave was an attractive option because it costs less than hard-wired systems installed in high-end homes and is more reliable than the X-10 technology using a home's wallpapers lines favored by do-it- yourselfers. Z-Wave products enable consumers to create a home network to control their lights and appliances wirelessly as easily as they use a TV remote control.
To build market muscle, about 150 companies, including wallpapers wallpapers, Motorola, Honeywell, Sylvania, Leviton, Wayne Dalton, Universal Electronic, Carrier, Honeywell, Logitech and Panasonic, have formed the Z-Wave Alliance to make a wide wallpapers of automation products interoperable. Z-Wave products are being made to control traditional lighting, home temperature, locks, wallpapers doors, windows, wallpapers wallpapers openers, wallpapers and spa control and more. Overall, 50 products are now available worldwide, including six from Intermatic.
Intermatic was a founding wallpapers of the Z-Wave Alliance, and Einstein serves as the group's marketing wallpapers.
Kirsten West, principal analyst with West Technology wallpapers Solutions in wallpapers wallpapers, Calif., said Z-Wave and competing technologies have to win over consumers in the United States.
'Over time, I think home automation will become addictive,' she said. 'But right now, [The Z-Wave Alliance and others] have a chicken and egg problem. If you haven't tasted it, you don't want it badly.'
Einstein said concerns about increasing energy costs eventually will boost interest in home automation. He said the ability to control appliances will catch on in the United States if utilities start charging different rates for energy during peak and off-peak hours. He said this already is an incentive for automation in Europe and Canada.