Visitors to the Helvar stand at CEDIA can see a series of products for the commercial and residential lighting markets: a versatile new 8 channel 458 Dimmer, the first Ethernet-ready DALI router for commercial lighting systems (DIGIDIM Router) and the customisable high resolution LCD TouchPanel.
OK, the Bathroom Also Needs a Digital Control
- 01. 08. 2008
- Bob Snyder
- Home Automation
Unique Automation wants to bring full automation to the bathroom. Their new Bathomatic is an automatic digital bath management system which can be operated by a wall-mounted touch-control panel, via LAN or automation systems.
Micro-processor controlled, it fills a bath to exact depth and temperature regardless of the temperature and pressure of the incoming water. It maintains water temperature, and adds fragrances/bubbles as required. It is suitable for installation to any new or existing bath.
Go Bathomatic
HAI WL3, Add-in for Windows Home Server
- 01. 08. 2008
- Bob Snyder
- Home Automation
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WL3 allows you to change a home's temperatures, adjust the lights or security settings, or view any supported camera securely and easily. WL3 automatically configures supported UPnP IP cameras on the home network and allows you to manually configure other IP cameras on your network or cameras that reside anywhere on the Internet. It also allows you to view and record video from cameras in the home or from public IP cameras around town, such as traffic and weather cameras.
Go WL3
Every Digital Bathroom Needs Waterproof TVs
- 01. 08. 2008
- Bob Snyder
- Home Automation
Envirovision is displaying its full range of HD Ready Freeview waterproof bathroom TVs at CEDIA. The 19" model is available in two versions: the 19EA series is supplied with separate waterproof ceiling mounted speakers whilst model 19IA offers integral waterproof speakers.
Available in a range of very high quality finishes including mirror or brush polished stainless steel, black, gold or mirror screened. Additional options include a sky remote control link and a multi systems remote control link to control any other device.
Go Envirovision
SlingPlayer for IPhone
- 23. 07. 2008
- Bob Snyder
- Industry news
Sling Media, makers of the Slingbox place-shifting TV device, is building a version of its SlingPlayer software for the iPhone and iPod touch.
SlingPlayer, currently available for Macs, PCs, and numerous cellular phone platforms including Palm, Windows Mobile, and Symbian, connects those devices with Sling's Slingbox hardware so that the devices can display live or prerecorded TV across the Internet.
You won’t find any info on the web site, but SlingMedia showed prototypes to press at Macworld in USA. But you can see a cool video on how SlingPlayer works on Blackberry and other cell phones.
Go SlingPlayer
Rise of Home Gateways
- 23. 07. 2008
- Bob Snyder
- Feature
Managed home gateways in No. America and W.Europe will rise from 16.2 million in 2007 to an estimated 34 million in 2009, says the Home Gateway Initiative (HGI).
“The home gateway is not simply a router, but a service enabler,” explains Milan Erbes, ambassador for the HGI and Business Development and Standardization Manager for DS2. “The HGI focuses on the home gateway itself, but encompasses also the Home Network Infrastructure Devices as well, providing guidelines on remote access, parental control in the home, performance metrics, quality of service (QoS) and security.”
Kurt Scherf, VP at Parks Associates, adds: “The deployment of home gateways is accelerating hand-in-hand with the rollout of triple play services.”
HGI intends to address support for the SOHO environment, energy saving, extended QoS, diagnostics, Home Network Infrastructure Devices support, the Home Gateway and Network Termination two-boxes approach for Next-Gen Networks, Home Gateway resilience, IPv6 and the evolution of support to IPTV and IMS.
The HGI was founded and launched by nine telecom operators (Belgacom, BT, Deutsche Telekom, France Telecom, KPN, TeliaSonera, NTT, Telefonica and Telecom Italia) in 2004, and now has members from five continents.
Go HGI