"Both technologies by themselves have challenges. Imagine if you had your laptop or your Treo or your Blackberry and it worked only 8 out of 10 times. I don't think you'd be very happy with those companies. Now what Insteon does is it takes that reliability up by quite a bit. Right now, our current reliability testing shows about a 99.7 reliability. That's been the key advantage of what we've been able to do, is being able to mesh those technologies together."
Smarthome sells an Insteon starter kit with two lamp dimmer modules, a table top controller and two signal enhancers…for under a hundred dollars…
"The beauty of the Insteon product line also is that it's also backwards compatible with X10. We estimate that there's about 7 to 10 million homes in America alone that have X10 in their homes."
And with most of the equipment…there's no need for professional installation. Bloomberg Boot Camp, I'm Fred Fishkin.