Smart home tech

Wireless communication may seem like old news with Wi-Fi and 3G readily available, but competition is heating up between companies that want to offer you wireless streaming of audio, photos and even video directly in your home. Sonos offers its ZonePlayer, which, in league with other ZonePlayers, uses a proprietary system called SonosNet to create a wireless network. Each ZonePlayer can communicate with all the others, and share the music and audio content stored there. A controller, which is also looped into SonosNet, tells each ZonePlayer what you want it to play.