ZF Friedrichshafen Wins Top Distributor Award
Leading manufacturer of electromechanical switch and sensor solutions for the industrial market sector, ZF Friedrichshafen, continues to be given recognition by SPDEI for the quality of support and collaboration with its distribution network. SPDEI (Professional Union of Industrial Electronics Distribution) is the French Association set up to promote the development of the profession in economic, […]
Futuresource Consulting Finds that Voice Pervades the Smart Home
At Futuresource Consulting’s recent Audio Collaborative event in London, Simon Bryant, Director of Research at Futuresource moderated an expert panel entitled ‘Voice Pervades the Smart Home – Who will have control?’. Consisting of Theunis Scheepers, Country Manager for Alexa Voice Services at Amazon; Joel Sietsema, SVP of Brand Management at Sound United; Shan Eisenberg, Commercial […]
Trade Talk: Taking Over an Existing Installation
By Simon Buddle, Future Ready Homes. Some days I love my job. I mean really love it. Not because of the satisfaction it gives me to make people’s homes work for them, or because I can use the phrase ‘It’s like Lego for engineers’, when discussing building KNX systems. It’s because sometimes I get to […]
BEMCO is Zennio’s Partner Supplier in the UK
Zennio is delighted to announce a Partner Supplier relationship with BEMCO in the UK. “Based on BEMCO’s distribution expertise and proven capability to deliver large and small KNX projects, we’re pleased to formalise a Partner Supplier relationship with BEMCO”, commented Fatima Poblador, Zennio International Sales Director. “We’re delighted that Zennio has recognised that we can […]
TMR Research Expects the Commercial Building Automation Market to be Worth US$108.49 Billion by 2024
According to a report of Transparency Market Research (TMR), the global commercial building automation market has highly consolidated vendor landscape owing to a presence of handful of companies accounting for the leading share in the market. ABB Ltd., Siemens AG, and United Technologies Corp. These players accounted for near about 39.1% shares in the overall […]
Berg Insight Expects 147 Million Smart Homes in Europe and North America by 2022
Smart Homes and Home Automation is the sixth consecutive report from Berg Insight analysing the latest developments on the connected home markets in Europe and North America. Smart homes and home automation are ambiguous terms used in reference to a wide range of solutions for controlling, monitoring and automating functions in the home. Berg Insight’s […]
Gira Wins Hat Trick of German Innovation Awards
The German Innovation Award honours innovations that are not only novel, but demonstrably generate added value for the user. Even when it come to details of an overall solution, the focus must be on radically centring the user, and thereby the human individual.” This is how the German Design Council describes the notion of innovation […]
Siemens Building Technologies Announces Henning Sandfort as New CEO of its Control Products and Systems Business Unit
Sandfort will be the new CEO of the Control Products and Systems business unit of the Siemens Building Technologies Division. Effective October 1, 2018, the beginning of the next fiscal year, Henning Sandfort (42) will be the new CEO of the Control Products and Systems (CPS) business unit. Sandfort will succeed Uwe Frank, the current […]
Ivory Egg Australia and New Zealand Enters into Partnership with Global M2M
Ivory Egg Australia and New Zealand is proud to announce that it has joined with Global M2M as a Platinum Sales Partner. This partnership will give customers access to the Global M2M/HMS Industrial Networks range of industrial and commercial communication products including the IntesisBox Building Automation gateways, Anybus Fieldbus Gateways and the eWON IIoT Solutions. […]
Freedonia Forecasts Smart Lighting System Sales in the US to Reach US$4.4 Billion by 2025
Smart lighting controls accounted for 63% of smart lighting sales in 2017. Smart lighting controls include lighting-specific control devices separate from any light source or fixture, such as: – centralized lighting system control boxes – lighting-specific smart home hubs and bridges – smart light switches and dimmers Smart lighting controls are critical for energy savings […]