Overview: Cooperating to Grow the Influence of Home Control with End-users

By Mark Warburton, Ivory Egg. I saw a great post on LinkedIn recently, asking for recommendations for a smart home solution. Being from the building industry, the person who posted obviously had a lot of contacts that are able to offer some form of A/V or building control solution. Queue a load of replies from […]

Gira Offers Smart Home Presentations at Light + Building 2018

From 18 to 23 March 2018, Gira will be welcoming visitors to this year’s Light + Building fair in Hall 11.1, stand A16 / B16 / A32 / B32. Every two years the Frankfurt Trade Fair becomes the centre of the sector again when Light + Building opens its doors. As a full-range supplier of […]

Jung Presents Smart Innovations at Light + Building 2018

Stands A60, B56 & B72, Hall 11.1, Light + Building 2018 Connected – secure – convenient. This year’s motto of Light + Building 2018, the world’s leading trade fair for architecture and technology, picks up on the current themes in these fields. In Frankfurt am Main, digital technology meets pioneering design to create the future […]

Australasia Ratifies KNX as Technical Specification

Home and building automation in Australasia is ready to benefit from a Technical Specification that promotes more product choice, interoperability and future-proofing. The systems integration market in Australia and New Zealand has been operating without any recognised standards, but in December 2017 ‘Standards Australia’ finally announced that it was ready to adopt ISO/IEC 14543.3 (Parts […]

CODESYS Presents KNX Integration at Light + Building 2018

Stand D71, Hall 9.1, Light + Building 2018 Industrial standard tool CODESYS now supports KNX, one of the most important fieldbus systems in building automation. CODESYS is the market-leading, manufacturer-independent development system according to the international standard IEC 61131-3 in industrial automation. Today, CODESYS is used in thousands of applications in building automation, primarily to […]

Lime International Launches New Netra-Series of KNX Products at Light + Building 2018

A08, Hall 11.1, Light + Building 2018 The Netra-series product range by Lime is convincing through its outstanding price-performance ratio. Netra offers a wide range of KNX standard products like switching actuators, blind / shutter actuator and binary inputs. The Netra-series switching actuators are especially suited for high loads, also capacitive loads, with high start-up […]

Siemens Promotes the Digitalisation of Buildings at Light + Building 2018

Booth B56, Hall 11, Light + Building 2018 Under the motto “Digitalize your building”, at this year’s Light+Building trade fair, Siemens will be providing answers to questions regarding digitalization in buildings and infrastructures – and of course the profound changes in the energy world and building management. In Hall 11 at booth B56, Siemens will […]

ABB Launches the ABB-tacteo Custom-built KNX Sensor at Light + Building 2018

ABB will showcase its first ever uniquely configurable building control sensor at this year’s Light + Building trade fair in Frankfurt from 18 to 23 March. The new ABB-tacteo KNX sensor is an individually-configurable control element for intelligent building control of luxury hotels, public buildings and high-class residential buildings. Constructed from glass and made to […]