Residential Tech Talks

IC Realtime CEO Matt Sailor joins Residential Tech Today for our first post-CEDIA Expo 2026 interview to discuss Bunker, the company’s Residential Tech Today Innovation Award-winning AI surveillance platform.Sailor explains how Bunker moves residential surveillance beyond passive recording by using natural-language video search, large language models, and metadata to help homeowners quickly find specific events. Instead of manually reviewing hours of footage, a user can ask the system to show every UPS delivery from the previous 24 hours and receive results within seconds.The conversation explores IC Realtime’s emphasis on homeowner usability, including why manufacturers must design technology for the people living with it rather than only the professionals installing it. Sailor also addresses privacy, cybersecurity, edge processing, cloud storage, and the company’s commitment to avoiding customer-data sharing or using activity from private properties to train its models.Sailor previews Bunker’s upcoming Halo intelligence layer, which is designed to learn the rhythms of an individual property. By recognizing recurring activity involving residents, visitors, service providers, pets, deliveries, and household routines, the platform could eventually identify unusual events while also notifying homeowners when something expected does not happen.The discussion expands into smart-home integration, AI-powered automation, robotics, and the changing role of professional integrators. Sailor argues that AI will make systems easier to operate while increasing the importance of skilled integrators who design networks, install equipment, connect platforms, and turn sophisticated technology into a reliable experience.The episode concludes with a look toward 2030, when Sailor believes security systems will become personalized intelligence platforms capable of understanding each household and responding to its unique routines.🔥 Topics Covered• IC Realtime’s 20th anniversary• Bunker’s Residential Tech Today Innovation Award• Moving from passive surveillance to active intelligence• Natural-language video searches• How metadata accelerates video queries• Designing security systems for homeowners• Reducing complexity and unnecessary service calls• Privacy, cybersecurity, and data ownership• Processing sensitive information at the edge• Why IC Realtime does not use customer activity to train its models• Bunker’s upcoming Halo intelligence layer• Learning the rhythms of an individual property• Identifying anomalies and missing expected events• Connecting AI surveillance with smart-home automation• How cameras can become the eyes of an intelligent home• The future of reactive and predictive automation• Why professional integrators remain essential• AI, household robots, and drones• What residential security could look like by 2030• Why recording-only cameras may soon resemble VHS technology👤 GuestMatt Sailor, CEO of IC Realtime🌐 Learn MoreIC Realtime: https://icrealtime.comIntegrators and homeowners can visit the website to schedule a Bunker demonstration or connect with an authorized professional.💬 What do you think?Would you want an AI security system to learn your household’s routines if the information remained private and under your control?Let us know your thoughts in the comments!#ICRealtime #BunkerAI #MattSailor #SmartHomeSecurity #ArtificialIntelligence #HomeAutomation #CEDIAExpo #CustomIntegration #VideoSurveillance #ResidentialTechTalks

Following up on a recent trip out to Phoenix for an up-close look at the ABB-NASCAR partnership, we sat down with a different division within the ABB umbrella to talk about the implications of electrification. Adam Mease, ABB's Business Line Leader for Electrical Distribution in the Smart Buildings Division, shares how the company is rapidly innovating to meet the power needs of the modern home, as well as the role integrators must play from both an installation and education perspective. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0K147DYpi4I

For the last decade, Deako has aimed to provide the best smart home experiences to homebuyers nationwide by ensuring accessible and customizable smart home lighting solutions for everyone. Their innovative product has, in a way, reshaped how homeowners can adopt and maintain smart control solutions. To get a better understanding of the product and the brand, we sat down with founder and CEO Derek Richardson. From the Deako origin story through to today's latest products and solutions, Deako has been focused on making the smart home more attainable and adaptable.

There is no one-size-fits-all method to building and growing a successfull custom integration business. That said, from what Matt Bernath, President of Vital, has seen in his years of working with and coaching CIs, there are many similarities between a company stuck in that $1-2 million range, and those that have gotten over the hump and scaled their business. At CEDIA Expo, Vital was our booth neighbor, and we sat down with Bernath to talk about those challenges and so much more. https://youtu.be/2tatpXJudII?si=t6pXa-2BzTRkt9xd

This past CEDIA Expo in Denver was one of the more active Expo's in recent memory for the team at Wisdom Audio. During the show, we sat down with Joe Walters, the eastern regional sales manager for their team, to talk about some of the new launches, their American-made approach, and much more. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aFjBN8o1kJo