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2023 Sponsor Descriptions


Research Sponsors


Calix

Innovative communications service providers rely on Calix platforms to help them master and monetize the complex infrastructure between their subscribers and the cloud. Calix is the leading global provider of the cloud and software platforms, systems, and services required to deliver the unified access network and smart premises of tomorrow. Our platforms and services help our customers build next generation networks by embracing a DevOps operating model, optimize the subscriber experience by leveraging big data analytics and turn the complexity of the smart home and business into new revenue streams.

https://www.calix.com/


Cox Communities

Building stronger, connected communities. Together.

Leaning in to fully understand your unique needs helps us help you. With customized solutions residents are willing to pay more for, we'll set your community apart from the rest. Think smart features, property management automation, gigabit internet, managed wifi, bulk services, and a "move-in ready" pre-installed program—powered by a single, end-to-end provider who supplies the service, the network, and a dedicated support team.

http://www.cox.com/communities


Nice

Italian multinational company based in Oderzo (TV) with a strong international vocation, Nice is an international leader in Home Automation, Smart Home and Home Security with the aim of combining functionality and design to simplify people's daily gestures. Nice is synonymous with technology and excellence: its solutions are used worldwide and applied in public and private spaces, such as airports and prestigious locations. Thanks to its founder and current Chairman, Lauro Buoro, and the 2.300 professionals who work every day to achieve the company's objectives, the Nice group distributes its products in over 100 countries around the world, with 24 branches on 5 continents, 14 production units and 13 research and development centres.

http://www.niceforyou.com


Ubiety

Ubiety Technologies Inc. is a sensor array and data analytics company crafting state-of-the-art hardware and software solutions that enable an elevated and intuitive understanding of people’s physical presence via wireless devices. Its patented hardware, presence detection engine, and software applications deliver a digital view of presence that solves detection and identification business challenges across industries.

http://www.ubiety.io



Platinum Sponsors


Alarm.com

Alarm.com is the leading platform for the intelligently connected property. Millions of consumers and businesses depend on Alarm.com's technology to manage and control their property from anywhere. Our platform integrates with a growing variety of Internet of Things (IoT) devices through our apps and interfaces. Our security, video, access control, intelligent automation, energy management, and wellness solutions are available through our network of thousands of professional service providers in North America and around the globe. Alarm.com’s common stock is traded on Nasdaq under the ticker symbol ALRM. For more information, please visit www.alarm.com.

http://www.alarm.com


Bitdefender

Bitdefender is a global cybersecurity and antivirus software leader protecting over 500 million systems in more than 150 countries. Since 2001, Bitdefender innovation has consistently delivered award-winning security products and threat intelligence for people, homes, businesses and their devices, networks and cloud services. Today, Bitdefender is also the provider-of-choice, used in over 38% of the world’s security solutions. Recognized by industry, respected by vendors and evangelized by our customers, Bitdefender is the cybersecurity company you can trust and rely on.

http://www.bitdefender.com


Connectivity Standards Alliance

The Connectivity Standards Alliance is the foundation and future of the Internet of Things (IoT). Established in 2002, its wide-ranging global membership collaborates to create and evolve universal open standards for the products transforming the way we live, work and play. With its Members’ deep and diverse expertise, robust certification programs, and a full suite of open IoT solutions the Alliance is leading the movement toward a more intuitive, imaginative, and useful world.

http://www.csa-iot.org


Johnson Controls

Johnson Controls is a global diversified technology and multi-industrial leader serving a wide range of customers in more than 150 countries. Our Security Products team focuses on security for homes and businesses and enables smart home connectivity through the use of our secure PowerG technology.  We help our customers have a smart space, but more importantly a space that is safe and secure, providing the comfort, convenience and possibilities expected today. For additional information, please visit http://www.johnsoncontrols.com or follow us @johnsoncontrols on Twitter.

http://www.johnsoncontrols.com


Origin

Origin is revolutionizing what WiFi can do. As the pioneer of WiFi Sensing, Origin aims to improve people's lives with its AI sensing technology. Its patented and award-winning applications enable companies to build a wide range of WiFi smart home, health, well-being, and automotive applications with high performance, cost effectiveness, and ease of use.

https://www.originwirelessai.com/


Rapid Response Monitoring

Rapid Response Monitoring is a Critical Events Response Center specializing in direct integrations with existing platforms and providing immediate escalation in crucial situations.  We respond in seconds from one of our dual fully redundant state-of-the-art UL and FM certified facilities.  Rapid Response Monitoring’s response teams are rigorously trained Security Industry Association (SIA) certified specialists. Our in-house development team’s track record is impressive; having interfaced with 30+ leading technologies in just the past 12 months. If you require a response to escalation trends, parameter exceptions or emergency conditions look no further than Rapid Response Monitoring.

http://www.rrms.com/


Reception Sponsor


Kudelski IoT

Kudelski IoT is the Internet of Things division of Kudelski Group and provides end-to-end IoT solutions, IoT product design, and full-lifecycle services to IoT device manufacturers, ecosystem creators, and end-user companies. These solutions and services leverage the group’s 30+ years of innovation in digital business model creation; hardware, software and ecosystem design and testing; state-of-the-art security lifecycle management technologies and services and managed operation of complex systems. For more information about Kudelski IOT, please visit www.kudelski-iot.com.

https://www.kudelski-iot.com/


Event Sponsors


Cooktop Safety

The fire alarm is not enough. Launching in late 2022, our line of residential and multi-family products solves the unattended, distracted cooktop fire problem.

Every year hundreds of lives are lost, thousands injured and billions in damages start right on the stovetop.
These numbers are climbing.

Our product combines the latest in sensor technology, artificial intelligence and connectivity to warn of an unsafe situation before it occurs.

Looking forward to connecting with potential partners to talk about how we can work together.
 

http://www.cooktopsafety.com


iolo

iolo develops patented technology and award-winning software that repairs, optimizes, and protects computers, to maximize system speed and performance while keeping them safe. With a global presence in 33 countries and products in 11 languages, tens of millions of people have used iolo’s products for their PC optimization, security, and data recovery needs for over two decades.

The company’s product line, distinguished by its flagship performance optimization suite System Mechanic®, is sold throughout the world at retail store fronts and can be purchased from leading major e-tailers such as Amazon. The products are also sold at a multitude of domestic and international distributors, resellers and OEM technology partners.

Headquartered in Pasadena, California, and a part of RealDefense LLC, iolo is widely recognized by both consumers and industry experts as a worldwide leader in the system utility software market.

http://www.iolo.com


Kwikset

Kwikset is the leading residential lock manufacturer, making homeowners feel safe since 1946. Kwikset works hard to understand the world you live in, so that we can do everything we can to protect it. The company’s unwavering commitment to meeting homeowners’ needs has inspired its innovative lock portfolio that includes patented SmartKey Security™ deadbolts, patented SecureScreen™ touchscreen locks, keyless entry combination locks, connected home technology, Bluetooth-enabled Aura™, Wi-Fi enabled Halo™, door hardware with Microban® antimicrobial product protection and a wide variety of styles and finishes. Our interior and exterior door products provide customers with the quality, technology, durability and style they want while guaranteeing the highest level of security.

https://www.kwikset.com/


Schneider Electric

As a global specialist in energy management with operations in more than 100 countries, Schneider Electric offers integrated solutions across multiple market segments, including leadership positions in energy and infrastructure, industrial processes, building automation, and data centers/networks, as well as a broad presence in residential applications.

Focused on making energy safe, reliable, and efficient, the company's 110,000 plus employees achieved sales of more than $26 billion in 2010, through an active commitment to help individuals and organizations “Make the most of their energy.”

http://www.schneider-electric.com


Tuya

Tuya Smart is a global Cloud Development Platform and a leading IoT Development Platform that connects the intelligent needs of consumers, manufacturers, brands, OEMs, and retail chains. The platform provides developers with a one-stop IoT PaaS-level solution that contains hardware development tools, global cloud services, and smart business platform development, offering comprehensive ecosystem empowerment from technology to marketing channels to build the world's leading IoT OS.

By the end of December 2020, the Tuya IoT Development Platform served over 260,000 developers around the world and generated over 120 million AI voice interactions daily. The platform has smart-enabled more than 240,000 product SKUs in over 1,100 product categories. Now, Powered by Tuya products can be found in more than 220 countries and regions in over 100,000 online and offline sales channels globally.

The Tuya Cloud processes over 120 million daily AI voice interactions from its five global data centers. The average per-command processing time is less than 0.01 seconds from the Tuya Cloud, 10-30 times faster than the industry average. Tuya is internationally operated, with local headquarters in the U.S., India, Germany, Japan, Colombia, and China.

https://www.tuya.com


Xailient

At Xailient, our vision is a world of seamless and pervasive AI assistance. Our mission is to enable makers and innovators of Smart Cameras to bring their visions to life.

We’ve transformed our algorithmic efficiency into a process that empowers companies to bring AI products and features to market faster, more accessible, and with less investment to compete in the emerging AI-IoT world.

We place tremendous focus on sustainable, privacy-compliant data acquisition and AI monitoring. This is so companies wishing to deploy Face Recognition and detection features have an effective strategy for monitoring their cameras and ensuring their data collection is always privacy-compliant.

Xailient’s technology, in all our partner POCs, undertakes the role of a trusted sentinel. From protecting precious bees to detecting enemy submarines from space, Xailient’s Edge Computer Vision can accurately identify threats and send timely alerts to the relevant personnel. This applies to our Face Recognition technology within smart home IoT devices. But in all these cases, this technology isn’t ‘set and forget.’ Thankfully, with Orchestrait, Edge AI models and algorithms can be monitored, updated, and checked for privacy compliance in an automated and sustainable way. This means that the AI performing vital tasks like protecting our houses, oceans, and essential pollinators is always in top shape.


Break Sponsors


Gadgeon

Gadgeon Systems Inc is an end-to-end product engineering and IoT solution development partner, enabling enterprises to do their businesses in the digital economy. Over the last 9 years, Gadgeon has helped customers to develop, integrate, and deploy IoT solutions, network devices, digital platforms, and solutions using niche technologies like Computer vision (CV), Robotics, Augmented reality (AR) & advanced analytics that helped them to be leaders in their markets. Customers take advantage of Gadgeon’s extensive experience in end-to-end IoT, IIoT, M2M technologies, network/communication technologies, application development, cloud, mobile, analytics, and automation frameworks in building new innovative business models and realizing value from their IoT and digital journey.  

http://www.gadgeon.com


Ivani

Ivani offers IoT Companies new markets and business models through Occupancy Sensing as a Service. Using Network Presence Sensing (NPS) Technology, Ivani enables the next level of intelligence to the connected world. NPS leverages the existing mesh-like RF environment created by smart light bulbs, outlets, switches, plugs, and other IoT devices to unlock value in spaces through context-aware intelligence. This intelligence is presence data for home security, autonomous lighting control, aging in place, and much more. NPS can be deployed as a simple firmware update and allows customers and partners to experience next-level functionality to devices, paving the way for truly intelligent environments and game-changing business models.

https://ivani.com


Savant

Savant was founded in 2005 by a team of telecommunications engineers and business leaders with a mission to design a technology foundation that could make all homes smart, impacting the entertainment, lighting, security and environmental experiences all without the need for expensive, propriety, custom solutions that quickly become obsolete.

Today, Savant builds on that innovative spirit and strives to deliver not only the best experience in smart home and smart working environments but also the latest in smart power technology.

As the first home automation company to embrace mobile technology, we understood early that the customer experience could extend beyond the home and open up new possibilities for control.

Over the years, our technology has evolved and our company has grown, but our goal remains the same. We've become the home automation brand of choice for the world's most luxurious homes, castles, and even yachts.

http://www.savant.com


Savant

Breakfast Sponsors


Midea

Midea America Corp., is a subsidiary within Midea Group, (SZ:000333), a publicly listed, Fortune 500 company and the world’s leading manufacturer of home appliances. With more than 166,000 employees and presence in over 195 countries, including in the United States, Midea’s products touch the lives of millions of people and families through air treatment, refrigeration, laundry, small and large kitchen appliances, water appliances and floor care.

Midea America is headquartered in Parsippany, NJ and has a Research and Development Center in Kentucky. Midea understands that the home is a special place, and the moments people spend there are precious. The Midea brand’s promise to all its U.S. consumers is to provide surprisingly friendly solutions to treasure those tiny moments at home. Therefore, the company creates home appliance innovations, that not only perform a function but have a meaningful impact for those who use them. 

For more information, visit midea.com/us.

https://www.midea.com


Nimbio

Nimbio is the optimal solution for one of the largest challenges in property management: administering common access points like buzzer doors, property gates, and pool access. With Nimbio, you can easily and cost-effectively turn any electronic lock into a smart lock, allowing residents to control access from anywhere with their cell phone. Nimbio works with existing hardware, including doors and intercom solutions, making it affordable and universally compatible. Nimbio leverages a cellular connection in lieu of wi-fi, so it can be installed virtually anywhere with no need for the property to have a preexisting network. With a variety of digital key features that are part of the Nimbio platform, residents can securely buzz in family and friends or share keys with maintenance and delivery personnel from anywhere. Nimbio’s Community Manager provides property managers a single interface that eliminates the need for onsite superintendents to support lost keys and late night lockouts. The Community Manager enables administrators to easily grant (and revoke) keys and view detailed reports about the traffic coming through each Nimbio-enabled common access point. Nimbio improves security by eliminating the risk of overshared access codes and physical keys, and the need for replacing expensive RFID cards. And Nimbio’s partnerships with leading delivery companies eliminates issues with lost or missing packages by allowing delivery personnel access to properties to deliver safely and reliably, every time. Nimbio puts you fully in control of who is (or isn’t) allowed in your building.  Nimbio - secure and nimble access.

http://www.nimbio.com



Wi-Fi Sponsor


Becklar

Becklar LLC is the holding company for AvantGuard Monitoring Centers and Freeus. Freeus is a leader in North America when it comes to the development and manufacturing of PERS and mPERS devices and technology. AvantGuard Monitoring Centers is one of the industry leaders in wholesale monitoring and provides services to the fire, security, PERS, and IoT industries. Together, they make one powerful combination of businesses.  

https://www.becklar.com



Supporters


Dealerscope

Dealerscope explores the business strategies, industry trends, technologies and products that matter most to consumer electronics and appliance retailers, distributors, vendors, and manufacturers. 

https://www.b2bmediaportal.com/dynamicregister/register.aspx?fid=DSMFD&status=new&key=PKS2021


Dementia Society of America

Dementia Society of America® (DSA) is the nation’s leading volunteer-driven all-Dementias awareness organization. DSA provides an information hotline (1-800-DEMENTIA®), many online resources, and an easy-to-use, web-based locator, which can help families and individuals find valuable support near to them.

https://www.dementiasociety.org/


Energy Tech Review

HomeGrid Forum

HomeGrid Forum (HGF) is an industry alliance that brings together the world’s best in technology innovators, silicon vendors, system manufacturers, and service providers to promote G.hn, a globally recognized gigabit home networking technology based on ITU-T standards. G.hn is the most reliable and versatile wireless home network backbone available today. Our members promote the global adoption of G.hn, a single unified, multi-sourced networking technology – over coax, copper pairs, powerline, and plastic optical fiber. HomeGrid Forum provides G.hn silicon and system certification through a strict compliance and interoperability testing program.

http://www.homegridforum.org


ioXt Alliance

ioXt Alliance, the global standard for IoT security, works to harmonize security requirements across participating protocols and ecosystems to increase interoperability among devices and provide clear messaging to consumers, integrators, distribution channels and regulators that participating products meet industry-recognized security levels.

https://www.ioxtalliance.org/


The Monitoring Association

The Monitoring Association (TMA) is an internationally recognized non-profit trade association that represents professional monitoring companies, security systems integrators, and providers of products and services to the industry. TMA is dedicated to the advancement of the professional monitoring industry through education, advocacy, standards, and public safety relationships. Learn more at https://tma.us/about-tma/.

https://tma.us/


The Security Industry Alarm Coalition (SIAC)

The Security Industry Alarm Coalition (SIAC)

https://siacinc.org/