The End of X10
By Julie Jacobson
Home automation pioneer will no longer make powerline-based products for controlling lights, thermostats and other devices.

X10 is shutting down. It appears the company is headed into receivership and its factories will cease making products for controlling lights and other devices over the powerline.

CE Pro has learned from several sources that X10 will no longer make products based on the home-control protocol it created in the 1970s.



Interestingly, the closure coincides with a high-profile report from Black Hat that X10 could be hacked, but that report most likely had nothing to do with X10’s demise. More likely, the company simply faced competition from newer home-control technologies such as Z-Wave (RF) and Universal Powerline Bus (powerline).

Being the low-cost provider, X10 undoubtedly suffered from higher wages in China, where its products are manufactured.

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