Insteon is a proprietary home automation (domotics) system that enables light switches, lights, leak sensors, remote controls, motion sensors, and other electrically powered devices to interoperate through power lines, radio frequency (RF) communications, or both.
[6] Every message received by an Insteon compatible device undergoes error detection and correction and is then retransmitted to improve reliability.
Insteon is an integrated dual-mesh (formerly referred to as "dual-band") network that combines wireless radio frequency (RF) and a building's existing electrical wiring,[7] in which all devices are peers and each device independently transmits, receives, and repeats messages.
[26] CEO Joe Dada had previously founded Smarthome in 1992,[27] a home automation product catalog company, and operator of the Smarthome.com e-commerce site.
In 2012, the company released the first network-controlled light bulb using Insteon-enabled technology, and at that point Dada spun Insteon off from Smarthome.
[27] In a community statement[31] published on the Insteon.com website, Smartlabs has revealed that it had been looking for a parent company to purchase and continue developing the Insteon ecosystem following supply-chain issues during the COVID-19 pandemic.
This sale failed to materialize in March 2022 and subsequently a financial services firm had been tasked with optimizing the assets of the company.
[32] In June 2022, a group of Insteon users acquired the company and its assets to rebuild the business.