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Lagotek Seeks Additional Dealers as Price Descends to a Tipping point Where Home Automation Becomes Affordable to the Majority of Homeowners (31/8/2006)

Booth 2010, CEDIA US Expo 2006

Lagotek seeks both domestic and international dealers.

To prepare for the surge in home automation demand, Lagotek Corporation is expanding its current network of domestic and international dealers. Lagotek's unique dual wireless technology has finally brought home automation into a price range that most homeowners can afford. "Home automation will become a major profit center for CEDIA dealers in 2007 and beyond. Major homebuilders are beginning to offer home automation as an option for their customers," says Lagotek's president Ron Risdon. "Standards are becoming mature. We and more than 100 other companies are supporting the Z-Wave wireless home automation standard."

Lagotek is inviting Dealer/Installers to contact Lagotek directly or visit at the company's booth during CEDIA EXPO 2006, Sept. 14-17 in booth 2010 at the Colorado Convention Center in Denver.

Dealer's Business Grows

"My company has served commercial as well as residential builders and homeowners in the Seattle area for over 15 years," points out Phil Rohmer, owner of Power Consultants, a Seattle dealer/installer. "I had been looking for an opportunity to expand our business model into home automation. But, previous smart home technology always required more computer science skills than we wanted to address. Lagotek has provided a wireless whole-home control platform that is extremely powerful in terms of best quality features, but is also very easy to install, configure and support. Basically, if you can navigate and understand Microsoft Windows at the user level, you'll have no trouble installing and supporting Lagotek systems. Most important to us is that these features come at a very affordable price for our customers. Homeowners are thrilled with Lagotek's technology, and my business is booming."

"Home automation is driving a parallel path to that of the personal computer industry during its early days in the 1980s," says Eugene Luskin, CEO of Lagotek. "Industry-wide standards are being adopted. A wide array of companies are buying in to the standards. There is no question that homeowners desire the technology. We need the industry's top dealer/installers to make the technology available everywhere. That's where CEDIA comes in."

It all Starts With the Home Intelligence Platform

The heart of the system is the Home Intelligence Platform. The software-based platform includes basic features for whole home control of:

" Climate control with multiple zones of heating and air conditioning
" Lighting
" LED Lighting for interior decoration
" Distributed audio
" Video Surveillance
" Irrigation
" Security

Designed with the needs of the homeowners in mind and advised by interior designers the system is incredibly intuitive to operate and provides a single interface between people and technologies.

"I expect home automation to experience explosive growth over the next few years," notes Ron Risdon. "We have developed a very attractive dealer program, so we can partner with the best dealer/installers in the industry. With our system ready for mass acceptance, qualified dealer/installers will find a very lucrative ground-floor opportunity."

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