An International Copper Association study shows copper use in smart homes will reach 1.5 million tonnes a year by 2030. Demand from smart wiring, connected gadgets, batteries, energy storage and high tech appliances is already doubling copper demand by 2021 says the study. Copper is found in smart home hubs, switches, routers, wiring and lithium- […]
Its Time To Ditch DIY Home Tech
I was shocked by new figures showing a soaring problem with broken home technology. Just as surprising-most try to fix it themselves or ask a friend to help, some do turn to a technical person and quite a lot do nothing about it at all. The do nothing group jumped 240% in just 12 months! […]
2018’s Top 15 Copper Buildings
This year’s North America Copper Architecture Awards shows off the most stylish new buildings. From a skyscraper towering over Manhattan’s East River to a cathedral, the copper industry recently awarded the top 15 buildings from across the United States and Canada. The winners include educational facilities, residential dwellings, government buildings and religious structures. Several of […]
The NBN’s Big Secret? Copper!
Half way round the world or Sydney to Perth? That’s some of the lengths of copper the NBN Co. has bought to help roll out faster broadband. According to the latest reports the NBN bought 4,478 kilometres of copper since just last October. Taking the total red metal purchased to around 21,000 kms all up. […]
John’s Blog – Rumours Of Copper’s Demise Greatly Exaggerated (apologies to Mark Twain)
Despite the outgoing NBN boss Bill Morrow blaming copper for a lot of the NBN’s ongoing problems, the red metal has never been so popular for building technology and cabling. In fact a new snapshot says the global structured cabling market size is projected to reach US $14.3B by 2025, growing around 8% each year. […]
Getting In On The Ground Floor Of Home Tech
We’re no longer in the land of hope or hype with smart homes. They’re big business and disrupting every part of the home construction market, from builders, cablers & yep, even plumbers. Sadly a lot of companies and tradies are still stuck in the past, not recognising the upheaval going on at home. A couple […]
NBN Goes Back To The Future
Pity the poor old copper telephone wires. Long branded old technology and disparaged at nearly every turn by the glittering promise of fibre warp speeds, it now looks like we need them more than ever. Last week the nbn announced that it will be using “G.fast” to supersize our existing copper cables to bring fibre […]
NBN Best On Cable Says iiNet
Leading Aussie broadband company iiNet says NBN broadband works best on cable not WiFi. A recent blog by iiNet is not only a great primer on just what the NBN is and promises to do at home, but shows very simply why how you connect is crucial. As they say: “Let’s talk about connections within […]
Australian Broadband Supercharges Copper
Australia’s National Broadband Network-NBN-is turning to fast copper technology to deliver bigger speeds. The NBN Co-responsible for building the country’s fast broadband network-is partnering with Nokia to trial XG-FAST over the copper network. XG-FAST is the next generation version of Nokia’s G.fast technology that has been shown to deliver multi-gigabit speeds over copper. The NBN […]
Lets Make Our Homes Power Stations
We now have all the technology to make our homes really energy smart says John Fennell The UK government says it wants smart homes and gadgets to be connected much more closely with the electricity grid. A plan they say will help even out the ups and downs of energy supply and demand, and save […]
Smart Home Walls Falling
For years one of the biggest obstacles to a real smart home market was the fact that nothing much worked with anything else. help make that happen. In other words companies tended to work in digital silos with different systems and gadgets often locked up behind proprietary walls. But that’s now looking like a very […]
Does The Smart Home Mean Business?
I realised recently just how many of the giant tech companies have moved into our homes…..Apple, Google, Amazon and Samsung all have smart home systems, phone apps to help control them and digital assistants you can talk to or wave at. And they’re just the biggest. Lots of other tech companies, telcos and an army […]
