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USD shows Niko's smart solution for efficient home automation (29/6/2007)

CEDIA UK Expo 2007

Distributed exclusively in the UK by leading custom installation distributor, USD Limited, Niko is the Belgian market-leading control company making its mark in the UK with its Smart Home Solution and wireless control systems. Niko products will be on show at the Cedia Expo 2007 on booth B15.

Niko's Home Automation System is an intelligent management system which controls all your home's electrical devices to deliver improved comfort, greater living pleasure and better energy consumption.

With one switch you can choose the ideal lighting scene for each room (you specify the light source, intensity and duration). With one push on the button you can change the scen to suit your mood and activity. The Niko Home Automation System can also help significantly to cut electricity bills. Household appliances, such as washing machines and tumble dryers, are only switched on when the electricity tariff is at its lowest.

Depending on the weather conditions, shutters or the fans are controlled so that the temperature in each room is adjusted individually. By integrating the Niko Home Automation System with its Security System, you can switch on all the lights (inside and out), raise shutters, etc. from the bedroom, with just one press of the 'panic button'.

Niko's solution allows you to create 'a feeling of presence' while you are away. You can control all the functions within the house from your armchair with the remote control; from your office - or even the beach - via a 'phone or pc connection. And as your life changes, so will your Niko System, adapting itself to match your life with easy reprogramming - of the whole system - or just one switch.

Because it is wireless, you can even extend the system - without ever having to drill or channel through your perfectly decorated walls. The Niko Home Automation System allows automated operations based on communications, between the individual electrical appliances in the household, targeted to optimum comfort and safety.

It is a simple, flexible and modular system that allows for design and planning by an architect and installation with or without a PC by an installer. It can be fully integrated with RF or IR remote control systems and it is suitable for both new-build and renovation projects.

The lighting design program is simplicity itself. Whilst providing the full selection of features you would expect with the most sophisticated system - it can create any light-scene, all of which can be easily designed - and stored - by the householder. One-button commands such as all lights to off and lighting pathways are easily introduced, as are silent and speed-programmable dimmers.

Manufactured in Niko's Belgian headquarters to exactingly high standards, the costs are remarkably keen providing a feature-full system that is competitive when compared to most other systems available. Niko offers total solutions in the field of lighting control, security, access control, home automation and music distribution.

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