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Mike Nunes, the former CIO at Smartlabs lists his role at Insteon/Smartlabs ending in April 2022. Dan Cregg, the chief research officer lists his role at Smartlabs as ending in 2022. Matt Kowalec the president and COO lists his role at Smartlabs as ending in 2020; and Tom Carter, the CIO doesn't list his role in the company at all. [Screen-Shot-2022-04-16-at-9][Screen-Shot-2022-04-16-at-9]Image courtesy of Insteon. Smartlabs is a combination of smart home brands that include Insteon and Nokia Smart Lighting, which Smartlabs purchased last year. It also owns the smarthome.com web site where consumers can buy Insteon gear. An email to Smartlabs' corporate office in Irvine, Calif. has not been returned and a call to the listen phone number returns a message saying Verizon could not complete the call and asking me to check the number before trying again. Multiple tries return the same message each time. Lilleness is a former executive at Nokia who lives in Seattle and invested $7.3 million in the Smartlabs business before taking on his leadership role at the company. At the time he expressed optimism that Insteon's proprietary technology could become the underpinning of a big shift to smarter homes. However, the adoption of proprietary technologies such as Insteon didn't pan out as Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, and Zigbee prevailed. And now, with the looming launch of the Matter smart home interoperability standard, Insteon's core tech will be even further marginalized. However, this means thousands of Insteon users, who I know as a vocal and pretty satisfied bunch, will be left with gear that doesn't work. Insteon does provide local control of its smart lights and nodes through hubs in the home, but there are plenty of cloud components to get the system to talk to Alexa or Google. Last year, an outage in Insteon's AWS cloud frustrated users for several days. With the current outage, Insteon's app doesn't work which means users will be hard pressed to change their device settings and add new gear. I'm hopeful to see if the folks over at Home Assistant or Hubitat can perhaps help stranded Insteon users transfer over to their platforms. It might be possible. Want the latest IoT news and analysis? Get my newsletter in your inbox every Friday. Share this: * Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window) * Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) * Click to share on LinkedIn (Opens in new window) * Related Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: Home Assistant, Hubitat, Insteon, Smartlabs Sponsors IMPINJIMPINJ Influx DataInflux Data Become a sponsor Subscribe to Blog via Email Enter your email address to receive notifications of new posts by email. Email Address [ ] Subscribe Comments 1. [b5570][b5570]Robert Hafer says April 16, 2022 at 11:42 am I have several Insteon devices that are still working; but I have an Insteon PLM connected to a computer running Indigo (www.indigodomo.com) which is all local. Likely Insteon servers ar down. Reply Leave a Reply Cancel reply Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked * [ ] [ ] [ ] [ ] [ ] [ ] [ ] Comment * [ ] Name * [ ] Email * [ ] Website [ ] [ ] Notify me of follow-up comments by email. [ ] Notify me of new posts by email. [Post Comment] [ ] [ ] [ ] [ ] [ ] [ ] [ ] D[ ] This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. Learn how your comment data is processed. [ ][Search] IoT Podcast Listen to the latest episode of the Internet of Things Podcast. Just press play! 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