Smarthome Joins Ingram Micro's Solution Center as Leading Home Automation Provider

IRVINE, Calif. -- July 5, 2005 -- Smarthome Inc., the world's leading provider of home automation products, today announced its participation in Ingram Micro Inc.'s Solution Center facilities, located in Santa Ana, Calif., and Buffalo, N.Y. The Solution Centers are state-of-the-art facilities designed to address the needs of solution partners selling into small, medium and Enterprise IT, as well as consumer electronics markets. Smarthome is the only home-automation provider featured in the centers.

Smarthome offerings featured in the centers, which includes its own branded products as well as third-party manufacturers, allow users to monitor and control lighting, security, entertainment systems, and more. Smarthome and Ingram Micro value-added reseller customers can use a Solution Center for proof of concept, live, hands-on product and solution demonstrations, remote access product and solution demonstrations, one-on-one technical briefings and trainings on Smarthome solutions.

"Smarthome's participation in the Ingram Micro Solution Center allows us to provide live demonstrations and proof of concept to resellers and customers who want to offer the latest home-control products to their customers," said Rajeev Kapur, vice president of sales and marketing of Smarthome Inc. "We plan to continually refresh our product offerings featured in the centers so our most innovative and cutting-edge products and technology like Insteon are highlighted and available to Ingram Micro's customer base."

"Ingram Micro's Technology Solution Centers give our business partners, such as Smarthome and our VAR customers, a competitive edge," said Kirk Robinson, vice president, customer solutions marketing, Ingram Micro U.S. "More than 11,000 solutions providers have experienced the centers, and we've conducted over 560 hands-on and remote training sessions. As our leading home automation partner, we are pleased to feature Smarthome's products in the Digital Home living room."

The West Coast Solution Center opened in 2001 and is a 2,000-square-foot, fully equipped training lab and demo facility. The East Coast center in Buffalo began hosting training events in March of this year and had its grand opening in late April. Both centers feature a Digital Home showroom and Digital Signage products. Other top Solution Center providers include: Cisco Systems, Citrix, Hewlett-Packard, IBM, Polycom, Viewsonic, and Sony. For more information about the Solution Center, please visit www.ingrammicro.com/solutioncenter.

Smarthome prints more than 5 million catalogs per year and serves customers in more than 120 countries. The company offers more than 5,000 items for home automation, or "electronic home improvement" projects. For more information, please visit Smarthome's Web site, www.smarthome.com or www.insteon.net or call 1-800-SMARTHOME.

About Ingram Micro Inc.

As a vital link in the technology value chain, Ingram Micro creates sales and profitability opportunities for vendors and resellers through unique marketing programs, outsourced logistics services, technical support, financial services, and product aggregation and distribution. The company serves 100 countries and is the only global IT distributor with operations in Asia. Visit www.ingrammicro.com.

About Smarthome Inc.

Founded in 1992, Smarthome Inc. is the world's largest integrated retailer/distributor of electronic home improvement solutions to enhance a home's value, comfort, convenience and/or safety. With headquarters in Irvine, Smarthome products are sold to an international customer base via the Web, phone and retail outlets as well as to professional dealers and installers through its SmarthomePro division. Its Smarthome Technology division is responsible for the OEM and distribution sales channels. Smarthome, developers of a new home networking technology called Insteon(TM), (www.Insteon.net), is dedicated to making life more convenient, safe and fun.