ABOUT THIS SITE: ABOUT X10 WIRELESS: In 1974, the roots of X10 sprang from a little engineering company in Scotland called Pico Electronics, Ltd. Pico is now part of X10 Ltd. X10 was a founding member of the Home Automation and Networking Association and is widely regarded as the founder of the home automation industry. The first X10 products were introduced in 1978. Over the years X10 has developed and manufactured Home Automation products for GE, RCA, IBM, Philips, Magnavox, Gemini, Leviton, Radio Shack, ATI, Black & Decker, and other big name consumer electronics companies. X10 is regarded as the de facto standard in home automation.
In 1978, X10 was introduced to the American public, Radio Shack being the first customer. Sears & Roebuck soon became our second customer. Right from the beginning we intended that X10 products would be produced at low cost and in high volume to give the consumer the lowest price possible.
X10community.com is a site for the discussion of everything "home automation." X10Community.com is a place where readers share ideas and help each other to create their own home wireless worlds.
X10 components “talk” to one other using your home’s existing wiring. A transmitter located in one part of a house or building sends an X10 (PLC) signal through the existing wires in your walls to a transceiver in another location.
Then the transceiver responds to the information by telling another component - attached to your light for instance - to do one of four things: turn on, off, dim or brighten. This means all your lights and appliances can be adjusted individually or at once.
X10 technology has been the trusted standard in home automation since the 70’s and continues to be as reliable now as it was then. As new fad technologies rise up and die away, X10 endures unchanged. Plenty of companies have tried to duplicate the reliability and functionality of the X10 protocol, but none have succeeded in creating a home automation format that’s as simple and reliable as ours.
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OUR COMPANY HISTORY:
30+ years in business, online since 1996!
In 1988, X10 started manufacturing universal remotes for Universal Electronics, Inc. (UEI) under the One-For-All brand. We expanded this business to the point where we were manufacturing 1 million remotes a month. We now make remotes for many original equipment manufacturers and have the best infrared (IR) code library in the business. X10 are now one of the largest manufacturers of universal remotes in the world.
In 1989, we introduced the world?s first low-cost self-installed wireless security system, the SS5400. It was a breakthrough product for its time and there?s still nothing that compares to it for price-performance.
In 1995, we set up ORCA Monitoring Services in Seattle, Washington to handle the monitoring of our own security systems as well as those we sell to Radio Shack and others.
On December 28, 1996, we began selling on the Web at www.X10.com.