Linear Puts Z-Wave Products in its Lineup The company's portfolio now includes products with wireless RF mesh technology.
Control and Automation: Asset Management for A/V/L and More Asset management in your automation and control system will allow you to make sure the assets such as audio, video, lighting and HVAC are managed properly so they pay off and so you get the most out of them. An organization can save a significant amount of money in video projector bulbs alone. And that's just the start of the benefits.
Best of 2012: Empire State Building Owner Tells All — How to Save a LOT of Money Best of 2012: TD Case Study. Huge money-saving secrets were unveiled at the Empire State Building. At an event that might have just as easily been a seminar for building owners hosted by one of New York’s most esteemed building owners, Anthony Malkin, President of Malkin Holdings and owner of the iconic structure. One might think that a $4.4 million per year savings and a full return on investment in just over 3 years, representing a 38.5 percent total energy savings with Johnson Controls, a lighting energy reduction of 65 percent using Lutron lighting controls, an Energy Star 90 and LEED EBOM Gold rating would make a highly competitive building owner tempted to keep his magic formula a secret. Not so. Check out the video and images from the space.
High Tech Hotel Has Everything Under Control4 A combination of space heating, water heating, lighting, and cooling make up 75 percent of a hotel's energy consumption. This hotel's high-tech amenities also includes fireplace controls.
Vantage Gets a “Wow” with New Equinox Control Panel for Luxury Hotel Market Vantage Controls new Equinox Control Panel for the luxury hotel market gets a wow in my book. The look and feel are elegant. The graphical user interface GUI is simple and intuitive. Yup it has an uncanny resemblance to an iPhone or iPad. That is going to help the comfort level of many hotel guests.
Vantage Launches Equinox With 4 LCD Keypad The single-gang touch keypad promises simple, user-friendly controls.
Crestron 3-Series Control Systems Support BACnet BACnet/IP support transforms Crestron 3-Series Control Systems into IP-based control platforms for connected systems.
Crestron Featured in NASA’s Radiological Control Center Renovation The high-tech project was completed just in time for the Mars Science Lab launch.
Hotel IT Manager Reveals Top 3 Challenges in AV Technology Conversion When it comes to understanding the AV technology and IT convergence challenges and solving them in hospitality, Seattle-based Hotel 1000’s manager of IT, Gary Fagerholm is on point and says what he would do differently. Fagerholm met with several vendors we understood that AVI-SPL was the right vendor for our project and also could be leveraged for potential future projects.
Swissôtel Chicago Chooses ELAN g! Control System With ELAN g!, Swissôtel Chicago boasts fully automated A/V/L areas controllable by hotel staff and guests with Internet access and the ELAN g!Mobile app.
Daylight Harvesting: The Oldest Trick in the Lighting Control Book As the demand for energy-efficient facilities grows, daylight harvesting is becoming an increasingly used technology.
Common Daylight Harvesting Mistakes Ensuring the success of daylight harvesting systems requires that you avoid a battery of common errors that, if made, can offset your investment.
Pieces to the Daylight Harvesting Puzzle There are a lot of moving parts to the daylight harvesting puzzle; making sure you get them to fit just right requires careful planning and skillful coordination.
Sophisticated Lighting and Sound Define New York’s Junoon Restaurant Tenafly, New Jersey based Saga Electronics, integrated a Crestron AV control system and Crestron lighting system for the 145-seat Junoon restaurant located in NY. Based on the astronomical clock, the lighting system adjusts and accommodates for the amount of sunlight coming into the space, with various scenes to create a comforting mood and accent prism lighting on ceilings and design features like the Junoon Walk.
Blog: My ‘Automation vs Control’ Pet Peeve Integrator Mark Coxon explains the very important between control and automation, two terms that are often confused and abused.