City College Plymouth Runs KNX-based Courses Every Month

City College Plymouth, UK, is running a range of courses from one-day events for architects and designers to four-week courses for electricians and plumbers. All of the course have a KNX element. Intelligent Building Control Systems This is an entirely brand new qualification (City & Guilds 6069-01/02) compiled, designed and written by City College Plymouth […]

BSRIA New Smart Home Controls Study Says KNX-Based Products Continue to Gain Recognition in UK

Research company BSRIA has announced the availability of its latest series of reports on the smart home market in Europe and North America. The Smart Home Controls study looks at three major sectors, namely the Smart Home Market, Home Energy Management and Intelligent Residential Environmental Controls. The product scope covers: User interface. System controller. Field […]

KNX UK Hosts Essential Seminar For Building Professionals At The Lowry On 26 November

The KNX UK Association will be hosting an essential seminar for building professionals on Tuesday 26 November 2013 at The Lowry, Salford Quays, Manchester. “BS EN 15232 – The Impact of Building Automation on Energy Efficiency” will provide delegates with detailed information on the background and rationale of this British Standard that underpins the realisation […]

Global Caché and Intesis Software Form Strategic Partnership

Global Cache Connectivity Products Seamlessly Integrate with Intesis Control Solutions Global Caché, the leading independent manufacturer of WiFi and network enabling connectivity products for the control and automation market, and Intesis, a global home and building automation manufacturing company focused on producing hardware and software control and automation solutions, announced today they have formed a […]

Case Study: A Wooden House with a Gira-KNX Brain, Dachau, Germany

By Anton Hieber, Elektro Hieber. For this very special wooden house, located in the middle of a flowering meadow in the Dachau Hinterland, Germany, we worked closely with ecologic entrepreneur Erwin Thoma to combine natural products and KNX solutions to create a one-off installation. The Brief Being eco-friendly was one of the main objectives of […]

Best Practice: Panel Design and Building

By Simon Buddle, SMC. There is always a deep end at a swimming pool, well, nearly always. It’s clearly sign-posted and people who don’t wish to be in it stay away. I didn’t learn how to swim until I was eleven, and true to the stereotype, I was thrown in the deep end by my […]

Product Review: iRidium 2.0 by iRidium Mobile

By Roger Wicks, Rocfusion. As an independent business, I was searching for something new that would primarily control KNX but also have the ability to control AV devices including Sonos, cameras and intercom. It needed to be flexible, have a user-friendly interface, configuration and setup should be straightforward, but first and foremost, it had to […]

Research: Smart Home Market in Germany

By Piero Russo, BSRIA. In this series of reports, we highlight key findings of our European Smart Home Market Study which was carried out during 2011 with a view to anticipating how the market will develop over the coming years. We undertook the research by interviewing and exchanging information with the top players and stakeholders […]

Country Profile: KNX Korea

By Geny Caloisi, KNXtoday. Despite being Asia’s fourth-largest economy, Korea has been hit by the global economic slump, resulting in a struggling construction and housing market. Facing the current issues of a growing population and limited natural resources, the government has taken strong initiatives for green growth. This is providing interesting opportunities for KNX in […]

Interview: Stephen Payne, Theben UK

Stephen Payne heads up Theben KNX product sales in the UK. A fervent ambassador for the KNX open protocol for many years, he sits on the board of the UK KNX Association, which elected him as its KNX Champion 2012 in recognition of his work. In this exclusive interview with KNXtoday, Payne explains why he […]