Hubbell iDevices – Really Smart for the Home

Hubbell distributors can now provide their residential construction and management professionals – builders, designers, architects, engineers, managers and more – an exciting suite of iDevices smart home automation products!

Helping building pros meet the latest customer needs

The iDevices offering includes networkable dimmer switches, wall outlets, lighting controls, thermostats and more; all are integratable with home network concepts including Alexa, Google Assistant, and Siri, and make many home functions controllable with voice commands or remotely by use of free apps on a phone or tablet.

The possibilities are powerful: users can turn on their heat or lights as they approach the home, monitor and control energy usage patterns, gain more granular control of indoor appliances and outdoor security lighting, even combine functions and operations by programming “if/then” commands.

These kind of home automation capabilities are in great demand by contemporary home and condo buyers and renovators, as well as by modern renters. Since these products had been sold mostly directly to the consumer, often, “onesies twosies” through online consumer internet outlets, it often fell to the consumer to learn about them, purchase them and have them retrofitted. And, with their more limited trade presence, many professionals were not in the communication loop and didn’t necessarily know what was out there, nor made aware of the full extent of the exciting and evolving technical possibilities.

Now that iDevices and Hubbell wiring products are bundled together Hubbell is able to bring these high-tech products directly to electrical distributors, giving our valuable partners greater one-stop access to knowledge that can help them better serve the needs of today’s tech savvy consumers, and support them with the same professional level services and resources that they have come to expect from Hubbell.

iDevices’ products are now readily available in large, reliable, even “apartment building job” quantities alongside all of the traditional “standalone” electrical infrastructure products that builders need to specify for each job —such as traditional switches, receptacles, wall plates, dimmers, timers, voice/data/video hookups and more. Now your contractor can get them all in the same order, with the same level of “we’ve got your back” level support that they’ve come to expect from you and Hubbell.

To further raise awareness of this exciting combination, Hubbell has revamped and expanded our residential catalog (coming soon) and created a new brochure.

Ongoing product innovations

The iDevices integration continues and accelerates the trend of Hubbell keeping on the cutting edge of evolving product technologies to help distributors offer their contractors an even broader suite of products that appeal to the modern homeowner.

For example, Hubbell infrastructure products include innovative recessed pop-up receptacles that bring power safely and conveniently—and fashionably—to any kitchen countertop or desktop; “drop on” phone chargers; low glow bathroom and hallway night lights, and much more.

Today’s new home builds and renovations are each a customized mix of traditional and networkable electrical products, and now contractors, distributors and showroom personnel can present new ideas to their customers and deliver a perfect solution specific that is optimized for every resident, and then get all the devices needed—even dozens or hundreds—reliably and professionally delivered on every job.