Case Study: Northumbria Specialist Care Hospital Pushes KNX into the IoT
By Chris Topham, Abtec Building Technologies. The Northumbria Specialist Emergency Care Hospital is England’s first 24/7 emergency care hospital. Modern approaches to care have been reflected in the hospital’s design with most of the beds in single en-suite rooms. That modern approach extends to the building’s environment and lighting controls – behind the scenes the […]
Show Report: KNX at 100% Design
100% Design is the UK’s largest design trade event, attracting architects, specifiers and designers. This year, the event was held at the Grand Hall, Olympia London, from 23 – 26 Sept 2015. There were all kinds of imaginative products and services on show to inspire building professionals, from fabulous flooring, worktop surfaces and furniture, to […]
Country Profile: Kuwait
By Yousef B. Almutairi, PAAET. The State of Kuwait is a constitutional emirate with a parliamentary system, situated in the northern edge of Eastern Arabia at the tip of the Persian Gulf. It shares borders with Iraq and Saudi Arabia. As with its neighbouring countries, the State of Kuwait makes most of its wealth through […]
Opinion: Winning Business with KNXoT – The KNX of Things
By Colin Price, Ivory Egg. I write this 35,000 feet above the evolving KNX markets of New Zealand and Australia as I return from a European visit, where ‘IoT’ and ‘mobile everything’ seem to occupy the popular press and trade journals. Amidst this incessant turmoil, we should not lose sight of what KNX has to […]
Solutions: KNX Multiroom and Multiuser Music Systems
By Charlotte Blissett-Griffiths, Ivory Egg (UK) Ltd. The ability to play music around the entire home has been around for a long time, but with KNX being Europe’s most popular protocol and the number of certified installers and consumers continually growing, the call for native KNX music systems is increasing. Why use KNX to Control […]
Trade Talk: Who is Eating the Pie – Electrician or Custom Installer?
By Simon Buddle, Future Ready Homes. The summer is just about done and dusted for another year. The Tour de France yellow jersey is safely back in British hands, football is on the TV, Andy Murray successfully avoided victory at Wimbledon and the sun came out for several hours one day. Things are, it seems, […]
Trade Talk: The Third Amendment – A Change to UK Wiring Regulations
By Simon Buddle, Future Ready Homes. Summer is here; schools are winding down, the exams are over, the holiday beckons. It has been a busy year for most systems integration companies in the UK from what I gather. Business was good pre-election, but post, it seems to be positively booming. So it is quite likely […]
First Principles: Setting the Scene for the Holidays
By Nikita Thompson, Ivory Egg. Going away for the weekend should be a simple and enjoyable exercise, but often we end up spending so much time and energy getting our house ready to go, we set off on holiday already stressed out. With a KNX scene, all of this hassle is avoided – even if […]
Best Practice: Programming in ETS – Back to Basics
By Christophe Lavergne, DMC USA. When we train people in KNX technology, we often see bad habits that they have developed when programming. Whether a newbie or an old hand, their projects in ETS software fail to have a correct structure and/or documentation. Some of the most common problems we see in ETS projects are […]
Trade Talk: LED and the Lighting Designer
By Simon Buddle, Future Ready Homes. Ambience, colour temperature, accent and task lighting – these are trademark phrases for a lighting designer. Creating wonderful room moods, with task lighting to enable reading, and accent lighting to draw one’s attention to an impressive architectural feature or well-placed ornament, lighting design requires an eye for design as […]