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Savant Brings HA to Mac OS X Leopard

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Systems LLC brings out the first ever home automation and control platform based on MAC OS X Leopard™. The maker of the ROSIE Coffee Table has created a home control package utilizing a controller called ROSIE and a proprietary configuration tool called RacePoint Blueprint™.

 “For the first time, developers have a control and media platform that enables them to sell their Apple-based applications into the CEDIA marketplace via the Savant product suite,” says Savant president Jim Carroll.

RacePoint Blueprint  provides Apple developers with an application channel into the CEDIA industry. When combined with Quartz Composer and Automator, it provides Apple developers with an automation and control system for many vertical markets. Developers can control flat panel displays, DVD players, AV receivers, set-top boxes, Apple TV® projectors, lighting, window treatments, and other equipment commonly deployed in multi-room residential settings as well as business installations and theatrical productions—without writing a single line of code.

ROSIE has interactive multimedia capabilities such as integration and interaction with many Apple-based applications including iTunes and AirTunes.

Carroll also says, “Developers can now have their applications invoked with the simple push of a button from any of our OS X-based interface technologies that include 5, 7, 9, and 12-inch in-wall touchpanels and a 13.3-inch wireless touchpanel along with Apple’s iPhone and iPod touch.  Savant's touchpanel application takes advantage of the unique user interface of Apple’s iPhone and iPod  touch. The developer’s application can be accessed via Savant’s rich GUI. 

All the Savant user interface can be accessed on the iPhone and iPod touch with one hand.

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