Aeotec
Aeotec Group GmbH is a home automation and electronics company based in Hamburg, Germany known as Aeotec. It had previously been known as Aeon Labs and had been headquartered in Silicon Valley, California. It was founded in 2016. Its range of products utilise the Zigbee and Z-Wave communications protocol, the latter being a technology to which Aeotec owns the European rights. The group appointed a new CEO, Daniel P Dykes, in late 2018 shortly prior to acquiring German electronics maker Popp & Co., a company itself founded in 1930 and also focussed on smart home hardware development. The acquisition  allowed Aeotec to move both its headquarters and research-and-development operations to Germany. Aeotec has partnerships with multiple solutions providers including Alarm.com, ADT, AT&T, Huawei, for whom Aeotec is a core connected home accessory provider, Orange S.A., and Telefónica. Products. The majority of the company's products have been released under the company's own brand name of "Aeotec" and former brand name "Aeon Labs", though Aeotec has operated for many years as an original equipment manufacturer and released products under the licence for third-party brands.Such own-brand products have been designed to work with controllers such  as Home Assistant, openHab, SmartThings, and Wink along with the group's own controllers AutoPilot and Smart Home Hub.