Interview: Sam Pound-Jones, Ivory Egg
Ivory Egg was founded in 2005 as the first dedicated, UK-based, KNX supplier and training centre. Since then, the company has expanded across multiple territories, including the UK, Australia and New Zealand. Sam Pound-Jones joined in 2014. With a background in systems integration and financial sales, he spent the first 7 months as an account […]
Trade Talk: Getting Involved with Heating Plant – is it any of our business?
By Simon Buddle, Future Ready Homes. It is once more the turning of the season’s tides. The long grey is finally giving up and the days are, at last, beginning to brighten and lengthen. And with it comes the day-by-day rise in ambient air temperature, solar gain and sudden and often dramatic temperature drops late […]
Tips: Blind Control
By Mark Warburton, Ivory Egg. The change of seasons is a timely reminder of how much the external environment impacts on the internal spaces we live and work. It could be returning home to a dark house because the days are shorter, the sudden return of glare on your computer screen or the joy of […]
Hands On: Retrofitting a Home with KNX
By Paul Foulkes, EchoHouse Energy. Just before Christmas in 2015, the family and I moved house. The building we purchased required a lot of work – we knew this from the beginning, but it had a great ‘footprint’ and would become a wonderful home. The need for this work gave me an ideal opportunity to […]
Show Report: KNX at ISE – Visualisation and Voice Control Make Waves
By Simon Buddle, Future Ready Homes. Another ISE and another bumper year. The RAI Conference Centre is now officially full, with a large marquee erected in the central square to accommodate the overspill. Next year, they say, they’ll be filling the front car park space with marquees. The event is now, effectively, a week-long event. […]
Overview: Voice Control is Making Consumers Think
By Mark Warburton, Ivory Egg. Once again ISE has exceeded expectations with a huge jump in visitor numbers and exhibitors. One of the big themes across the show and also at the Smart Building Conference on the Monday, was voice control. Whilst the rapid roll-out and marketing hype around voice control does lead one to […]
Software Update: ETS Inside – Making it Easier for Installers and End Users
By Yasmin Hashmi, KNXtoday. For systems integrators, KNX is an excellent protocol to use as a building control system. It is a worldwide standard and is very reliable. It uses a bus structure onto which thousands of compliant products, such as power supplies, sensors, actuators and user interfaces, from hundreds of manufacturers, can be attached. […]
Trade Talk: Underpinning Knowledge and Proving the Truth
By Simon Buddle, Future Ready Homes. All good ‘Star Trek’ fans know the line, ‘Resistance is futile’ – the possessed Borg’s diabolical words uttered not so much with malice, but with absolute certainty. Such assuredness can only be grounded in absolute facts or laws. We do know that resistance is voltage divided by current – […]
Show Preview: KNX Developments to Look Out For at ISE 2017
By Mark Warburton, Ivory Egg. ISE is once again upon us and it’s great to see so much KNX representation at the show. The focus of this is the Smart Building Solutions area (Hall 9), although the very nature of KNX means that it can be found on manufacturers’ stands across the show. The KNX […]
Perspective: Regional HVAC Considerations in Residential and Public/Commercial Buildings
By José María Morcillo López, Domonetio KNX Training Center. HVAC (Heating, Ventilation and Air Conditioning) is an integral part of every modern building and typically accounts for more than 60% of a building’s energy consumption. KNX offers solutions for 98% of the climate control systems on the market worldwide, either by controlling them directly, or […]