System Maintenance: why systems integrators must fight for panel access
Simon Buddle explains that when space is at a premium, design teams can be tempted to place control panels in accessible locations, with adverse consequences for system maintenance. We’ve spoken before about maintenance on jobs. It should be a standard part of everyone’s business. Systems, once commissioned and signed off, should naturally roll over into […]
ETS6 integrates JUNG KNX media coupler as segment coupler
The current version 6 of the ETS offers improved functions that enable system integrators to design the topology more easily. The new Segment Coupler function is a software extension of a media coupler that connects line segments independently of the media type. This means that a KNX RF media coupler can be integrated into a […]
Spotlight: remote debugging of KNX installations
Colin Price discusses why remote monitoring makes sense for systems integrators when trying to debug operational issues, and gives practical examples of how a new product, KNXMonitor, can facilitate this. Finishing a KNX installation completely and handing over the perfect project to a client can sometimes be annoyingly delayed by nagging intermittent problems. Whether we […]
KNX IoT: Part 1 – an introduction
In the first of this series of articles on KNX IoT, Bruno Johnson and Wouter van der Beek explain how KNX has fast become the leading wireless IoT solution for commercial building automation. Digital transformation has been one the main strategy topics on company board meeting agendas for the last few years. The opportunity to […]
Interview: Thais Giordani on daring to dream
Thais Giordani talks about the challenges facing women in automation technology, and what has made her two-times KNX-award-wining systems integration company such a success. Eight years ago, Thais Giordani and Valeria Gonçalves were two public servants with a dream: to transform people’s lives through technology. With the growth in civil construction, they saw automation as […]
Trade Talk: we must spread the KNX word to M&E consultants
Simon Buddle explains why KNX professionals must evangelise about how simple, reliable and cost-effective KNX can be for multiple system control in apartment blocks. That’s definitely enough mince pies and terrible films for me. How about you? It felt like a very compact break. Working at 5pm on the 23rd and straight into Christmas Eve […]
ABB integrates wide range of KNX switch actuators into the ABB i-bus tool
The wide range of ABB KNX switch actuators can now be integrated into the ABB i-bus® tool – a professional service tool to support commissioning of KNX installations. This enables building managers and system integrators to achieve improved device supervision, simplified failure analysis, faster commissioning and maintenance as well as comprehensive energy management. For more […]
Case Study: KNX award-winning smart castle in France
Systems integrator Lionel Armand describes the automaton of a castle that won the KNX Award 2022 for Smart Home – Europe. La Folie Boulart is a Belle Époque-era castle in Biarritz, in the Basque Country, France. It has been restored as a five-star rental property boasting eight bedrooms, a large reception room, lounge bar, billiard […]
Gira offers new freedom with KNX RF system
Smart Homes in existing buildings with Gira KNX RF Implementing a smart home in existing buildings used to be very costly because a BUS cable had to be laid. But now there is a solution: the radio-operated Gira KNX RF system. Without great effort and expense, and above all else without any dirt or noise, […]
KNX Association offers ETS6 v6.0.6 with Cloud Licensing
KNX Association has released ETS6 v6.0.6, which includes major improvements such as a project comparison feature, dozens of performance and usability improvements, simplified licensing and cloud licensing. What is cloud licensing? ETS 6 cloud licensing is not a version of ETS on the cloud, but a new way of licensing and activating ETS as a […]