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Lagotek Adds Support for Slim Devices' Squeezebox Music Distribution System to its Home Intelligence Platform (29/8/2006)

Booth 2010, CEDIA US Expo 2006

Integration offers homebuilders and remodelers an affordable music delivery solution.

Lagotek Corporation and Slim Devices, Inc. today announce the support of the award-winning Squeezebox wireless home audio distribution system by Lagotek's Home Intelligence Platform. Squeezebox, from Slim Devices, is the affordable way to deliver music into every room of a home. It plays a wide variety of digital music files, including uncompressed and lossless formats-across a true 802.11g wireless network connection. Squeezebox offers the widest choice of listening options beyond the user's music collection. It includes a directory of thousands of Internet radio stations and features Pandora's personalized music service and Rhapsody's 2 million-song collection. All Internet streaming services are even available when the user's computer is turned off.

"We are delighted that our product has been integrated into Lagotek's Wireless Home Automation System," says Patrick Cosson, vp of sales & marketing at Slim Devices. "It is a perfect partnership. Lagotek provides an affordable home automation platform and we add a vehicle for delivering music to every room of your house."

Music is Just the Beginning With the Home Intelligence Platform

This platform is designed to specifically serve the needs and desires of the residential construction and remodel marketplace and includes Z-Wave enabled wireless whole-home controls of:

" lighting (high and low voltage sources including incandescent, fluorescent, LED and fiber optic)
" heating and air conditioning (HVAC)
" distributed audio
" multi-location camera surveillance
" irrigation controls (sprinklers and drip systems)
" security systems

"The Squeezebox will be sold to our home automation customers through our domestic and international network of authorized dealers and installers," notes Ron Risdon, president of Lagotek. "We will always offer best-of-breed components in our system."

www.lagotek.com
www.slimdevices.com