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Summer Time is Smart Home Time! April showers bring May flowers and summertime brings new opportunities to enjoy time at home! Whether watching the game on your back patio or learning how to make homemade ice cream, these five new gadgets are sure to be a great...

Home security, both physical and technological, are vital to providing a safe space for you and yours to thrive.  Protecting your home from electronic threats may seem daunting, but here are three simple ways to bolster your smart home safety.     Keep Your Home...

What is Matter? If you follow developments in the smart home industry to any degree, you’ve no doubt heard of Matter.  In short, Matter is an open-source, universal language that allows products hailing from different manufacturers to communicate with each other...

Having just wrapped up in Las Vegas, CES 2023 brought some very exciting technological advancements to the table.  From luxury smart EVs to home urine analysis (Yeah. You read that right.), there is a wide range of smart home tech just waiting to add even more...

The holiday season is in full swing and what better way to ring in the most wonderful time of the year than with three new smart home additions guaranteed to make your home functional and festive! Philips Hue Festavia We all know and love the beautifully bright and...

There are roughly 1.65 million burglaries that occur in the United States each year and home with no security system are 300 percent more likely to be robbed (See stats here).  Be it automated locks or surveillance cameras, home security is more important now than...

Your home is your oasis, and oases should be set to a comfortable temperature.  They also shouldn’t cost an arm and a leg for a couple of degrees cooler or warmer.  A smart environment system from our team here at Ficrest Integrations comes with several eye, ear, and...

Since the earliest days of movies in the late 19th century, everyone around the world continues to be captivated by the stories we experience through film as a medium.  It used to be that you had to go to the theater to experience movies in the fullest sense.  Now,...

It’s time to upgrade your home.  Here at Ficrest Integration Inc., we specialize in helping you craft the smart home system of your dreams.  With the holidays upon us and all the chaos it brings, now is the time to minimize stress and maximize the comfort of your home...

What does a smart home look like in 2022? The modern concept of a smart home has been around for almost two decades, and as technology marches forward, so too does the standard for smart home residences. For a long time, it seemed as though computers were the central...