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Singsation Karaoke, a brand by Voxx Accessories Corporation, made a huge splash in the category in 2017 with its 5-in-1 Solo Deluxe microphone, and had national big box sell-through last year with karaoke systems ranging from $30 to $300. For 2019, it has announced even more innovation with five new systems, filling voids from $50 to $130 while keeping the massive pro model at $300. Singsation leads the category in professional voice tuning, the most integrated sound effects and the largest room-filling light shows on board. Identifying the pain points of either buying karaoke music or subscribing to a service, Singsation took a different approach, making the smartphone or tablet the music source through free YouTube karaoke videos. Literally millions of lyrical tracks are available, and it keeps Singsation customers from having to buy any CDs or download and transfer videos into the machine. Recently, Voxx announced a strategic partnership with Speak Music and the Melody app, which allows your voice to simply ask for the track or artist as it procures and plays it automatically Singsation Karaoke and Party Systems Dominate the Category An interview with Jay Whitehurst, President, Comtech Enterprise Technologies. WW: What's the most significant change in location-based technolo- gies this year? JW: The industry has traditionally leveraged Location Based Services (LBS) for public safety applications and emergency services. We are seeing a second increasing market vertical as enterprises adopt location intelligence applications to improve their business effectiveness. We expect this coupled with the rise of IOT devices and sensors in both verticals will increase the need for LBS. The virtualization of network functions for LBS was required by customers as part of essentially every new bid by Comtech; in 2019, the company booked 17 virtualized deployments, many of which are complete. The company's virtualized platform is deployed with many Tier1 mobile network operators (MNOs) around the world. Trinseo plastics are intrinsic to the products we use in our lives every day. One of these products is the new smart outlet from Currant, a California-based startup that creates smart home products designed to give consumers control over their homes – and their energy consumption. Currant introduced the Currant Smart Outlet, the first outlet on the market powered by artificial intelligence (AI), in November 2018. Consumers simply plug their home devices or appliances into it and, with a special app, receive a breakdown of their power usage in real time as well as personalized, easy-to-implement suggestions on controlling their energy expenses. According to Hasty Granbery, Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Currant, "Idle energy usage resulting from always-on devices is a larger problem than most peo- ple realize, costing Americans 19 billion dollars per year." Currant addresses this problem by leveraging AI to help people discover their home energy offenders, so they can cut excess electricity usage without Cognitive Systems Corp., Plume and Qualcomm Technologies announced their part- nership with Stanley Black & Decker in the creation of its ground-breaking Omni secu- rity product. Omni's unique capabilities are enabled by Cognitive Systems' Aura WiFi Motion technology, Plume's cognitive service curation platform, OpenSync device software stack and Qualcomm's advanced Qualcomm Mesh Networking Platform. The result is a self-install security and motion detection system that alerts end users to motion in and around their homes and businesses without the privacy risks, set-up has- sles or high costs that come with security cameras and sensors. The collaboration between the four organizations is an unprecedented step towards creating a truly cog- nitive, smart home or business. "We are very pleased to be working closely with these great companies and inte- grating our Aura WiFi Motion software with their solutions. With more than 35 patents granted, we are very well positioned to disrupt the smart home industry by providing motion detection for security applications and elder care, and most notably, the vital context needed to make a truly smart home," said Taj Manku, Continued on Page 12 Continued on Page 12 Comtech: Communication Solutions for a Connected World Trinseo Provides Plastics for Smart Outlet Cognitive, Plume and Qualcomm Partner with Stanley Black & Decker Continued on Page 12 Continued on Page 12 Oser Communications Group Los Angeles Wednesday, October 23, 2019 AN INDEPENDENT PUBLICATION NOT AFFILIATED WITH MWC BOOTH #2838