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smartkontrols Sheds New Light On Integrated Whole House Control (1/6/2004)

This year's CEDIA Expo will see smartkontrols ltd showcase a breakthrough range of new lighting control innovations, based on Helvar's Digidim technology. Visitors to Stand H32 will be among the first to see how smartkontrols incorporates the new lighting control technology within its own market leading HVAC (heating, ventilation and air-conditioning) control range. The result is a fully rounded, state of the art environmental control solution for the home.

With a smartkontrols system, custom installers and other residential system specifiers can provide homeowners with intelligent lighting control that is independent or combined with intelligent HVAC control, complete with a wide choice of aesthetically attractive, integrated user plates. A whole range of sophisticated features are possible, including scene-setting, route lighting, security, blind and curtain interlocking and the control technology is equally suitable for anything from single room up to whole house installations. These smartkontrols systems can also be easily integrated with other sub-systems eg entertainment, security, etc, to provide a complete home automation system.

Managing Director, Dave Robinson, also takes centre stage at the event. He will be giving trade professionals and custom installers the benefit of his expertise with an Introduction to HVAC, presented as part of the CEDIA training seminar programme, and two further training sessions covering interfacing smartkontrols with Crestron and AMX respectively.

Visitors to the stand can also see how SMS text messaging through an ordinary mobile phone can control a smartkontrols home heating and / or lighting system. On receipt of an instruction to adjust house temperature or lighting, the smartkontrols system will automatically carry out the command and respond with a confirmation message. Among the other highlights on the stand is the smartserver. This device allows fully flexible, web-enabled access to the smartkontrols system from any web browser, PDA or similar device. Unlike most software-based server systems which use a PC, the smartserver is an embedded hardware module within the control system. It enables adjustment of settings to be made from wherever the user may be, automatically "serving up" pages to any device which supports Internet Explorer. Another recent development on display is smartbox, the modular panel range designed to provide a compact, easy to access and clean-looking enclosure for smartkontrols control modules.

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