Show Report: Light + Building 2016
By Yasmin Hashmi, KNXtoday Ever since the last Light + Building in 2014, where we were blown away by the sheer scale of the event and the impressive KNX presence there, we have been looking forward to this year’s show. Hailed as the world’s biggest event for lighting, electrical technology and home and building automation, […]
Show Report: KNX Messages and Developments from Light+Buiding 2016
By George Lazos, Quantum KNX++ Training Centre. This year Light+Building (Frankfurt, 13-18 March) managed to score a new record of 2,589 exhibitors from 55 countries and a total of 216,000 trade visitors from 160 countries, all looking for innovative products, solutions and new business opportunities. Visiting the fair, especially for L+B newbies, is a life-changing […]
Trade Talk: The Smart Home Jigsaw
By Simon Buddle, Future Ready Homes. We live in a time when the terms ‘smart home’ and ‘connected home’ are freely dropped into conversation. Indeed the word ‘smart’ seems to be ubiquitous in current marketing parlance; I had a bottle of ‘smart’ water just the other day. Really? I mean, come on! Anyway, before we […]
Tips: How to Choose the Right Products and Documentation
By Mark Warburton, Ivory Egg. Following my previous articles about how to sell and specify KNX, the next stage is to finalise the choice of products and issue supporting documents. You may be keen to get on with the installation, but getting these next few points below completed first, will pay dividends at the end […]
Advice for Architects, Designers and Building Planners: Integrating Community Energy – Part 3
By Paul Foulkes, EchoHouse. In Part 1 and Part 2 of this series, we looked directly at community energy and how, with KNX, the required infrastructure can be supplied. In this final part, we will go beyond community energy, and look at why KNX can address the need for an integrated infrastructure. I was at […]
KNX Userclub Lebanon Participates at 7th Build it Green – Lebanon Conference
For the 7th consecutive year, e-EcoSolutions in partnership with the EcoConsulting team organized its annual “Build It Green-Lebanon” conference on March 16th, 2016. This year’s event featured a new interactive format, the “Workshops with Green Buildings Experts”, in order to engage delegates in a highly participative way and collaborate together in building more sustainable Lebanese […]
KNX Japan Organises KNX Device Development Training
A series of training courses was held in Japan during the week of 29th February, 2016. The training was organised by the KNX National Group Japan and the invited tutor was Mr.Tomic of Tapko Technologies GmbH. The training focused on KNX device development and on RF technology, and people from seven companies attended the training […]
EI_Import by Nautibus
Electrical installation Import EI Import generates a ETS5 project from a CSV list of actuators and circuits. The list can easily be created using Excel or a text editor. The project produced contains all the necessary group addresses, the building structure and the actuators. It can be further processed with the ETS5 or EIplan5. www.knx.org/knx-en/software/ets-apps/features/index.php?dev=Nautibus
ThebenHTS Adds New Models to theRonda Range of Presence Detectors
Quite simply an all-round success With theRonda S standard models, ThebenHTS have completed their high-performance range of the Ronda presence detectors for presence-dependent, energy-saving lighting and air-conditioning control indoors, offering a new option for medium-sized detection ranges. Furthermore, theRonda P now comes with intelligent master/master parallel switching. The new standard version, theRonda S, is the […]
ABB Introduces i-bus KNX IP Interface and IP Router
Connecting KNX to IP networks The new range of ABB i-bus KNX IP devices, consisting of IP interface and IP router, can be used in all applications in which KNX shall be interfaced to IP networks. The IP interface is especially suitable to connect visualization systems and ETS software to the KNX bus, therefore it […]