Google has nest. Amazon has Echo and Alexa. Savant systems Has—GE lighting! The luxury home-automation company has its sights set on high-quality mass-market home networking - [Spectral Lines]

IF YOU WERE TRYING TO IDENTIFY THE HANDFUL of companies that created a business out of the emergence of electrical engineering in the Victorian era, certainly the list would have to include General Electric. GE's lighting business was established by Thomas Edison in 1892, and it was just sold to engineering wunderkind Robert Madonna and his team at Savant Systems, in Hyannis, Mass. Savant builds high-end home-networking systems for the well-heeled.