DENVER, CO -- CEDIA Booth #610 -- ELAN Home Systems, a leading manufacturer of award-winning Multi-Room audio/video and home control systems, announced today the trade debut of three new models in its revolutionary, tried-and-true VIA! line of Touch Panel Control Systems, the VIA!4.0-EM, VIA!7.0-EM and VIA!10.0-EM, at CEDIA 2007 in Denver, Colorado. The announcement was made by Bob Farinelli, ELAN's President and Chief Technology Officer.

ELAN's VIA! Touch Panels have been the value leaders in their class since their initial roll-out in 2000. The first stand-alone touch panel with live video monitoring capabilities, VIA! set, and continues to set, a new bench-mark for affordable, full-featured, whole-house control of entertainment, lighting and security.

The new VIA! lineup includes two new sizes, 7" and 10", with widescreen landscape formats that combine elegance with the traditional VIA! strengths of ultra-fast response, reliable execution, awesome live video and ease of programming. The VIA!10.0-EM's large, wide-screen viewing area also makes it an ideal in-wall TV monitor that suits locations…

Home Automation, Inc. (HAI), a leading manufacturer of integrated security and home automation products since 1985 is pleased to announce the upcoming availability of its ProntoScript integration module for the Philips TSU9600 Pronto remote. This module will allow the Pronto remote to control HAI Omni and Lumina family automation systems as well as standard home theater components.

"Using a single remote, a user will be able to control his home theater; adjust lights, temperatures, and security settings; and control multi-room audio systems, such as the Hi-Fi by HAI system" explains HAI Chief Technology Officer, Brian Yokum. "This additional integration gives our installers and customers another option to expand the functionality of their HAI system."

The TSU9600 provides a colorful touch sensitive display with Wi-Fi capability that allows it to be used as a wireless Touchscreen for the HAI system. The TSU9600 communicates via Wi-Fi to a standard Wi-Fi router or access point, which then connects to the Ethernet port on the HAI system.…

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Bedford, NH – HomeSeer Technologies announces its new HSTouch IP-enabled touchscreen designer software. The new program provides an easy to use, family-friendly graphical interface for all HomeSeer home automation systems and will run on in-wall, stand-alone, portable, handheld and wireless touchscreen devices. HSTouch integrates tightly with all HomeSeer-based automation systems and the screens are fully customizable to work with virtually all backgrounds, buttons and graphics.

Unlike other programs of this type, HSTouch is IP-enabled and may be used to monitor and control remote HomeSeer installations, including secondary residences. HSTouch is also designed to run on both Windows and Windows CE platforms ensuring compatibility with the widest range of touchscreens currently available.

“Touchscreens have become very popular control ‘”portals” for the modern home and HomeSeer dealers and users have been clamoring for a HomeSeer touchscreen solution for some time. HSTouch should satisfy this need very nicely!” said Mark Colegrove, HomeSeer’s sales director.

HSTouch debuts at CEDIA Expo…

Control4 is coming out with its most powerful home-control processor by far. The company's new HC-1000, debuting at CEDIA, "is an extremely fast processor that will rival anything in the market in terms of overall system performance," claims CEO Will West. "In fact, it exceeds anything we know in the market in terms of raw processing power. … Processors in most of the embedded systems are typically less than 300 MHz. We're into the gigahertz range."

The product is less of a controller, and more of a supplement to Control4's suite of control systems and interfaces. There is no ZigBee wireless radio built in. The only connectors are a USB port and an Ethernet port. "Rather than a multitasking box, it is pure hard core," says West. "It runs Director [automation software] and that's it. It allows the rest of the house to do what it needs to do."

The product also includes on-board storage -- 250 GB in the first version, but expanding…

DENVER, CO (September 5, 2007) --HomeSettings from Intermatic, the first to launch a complete line of Z-Wave enabled home controls, announced today at CEDIA the addition of three new products to the 2008 line-up. For electronic contractors and installers looking for the latest in affordable wireless home controls, the HomeSettings line includes switches, dimmers and plug-in devices that will interoperate with other Z-Wave enabled products.

New products include:

HA14 600Watt In-Wall Dimmer – Supports 3-way configurations, easy-to-use and works with any HomeSettings remote control or as a standard dimmer.

HA18 15-Ampere Wall Switch – Sustains 3-way configurations and no-stress installation. Operates with any HomeSettings remote control or as a standard wall switch and is compatible with compact fluorescent bulbs.

HA20 600Watt Toggle-Style Dimmer – Same features as HA14, except toggle-style.

"Intermatic is the leading manufacturer for reliable home automation products and HomeSettings has once again expanded our already comprehensive array of…

Elan Home Systems is bringing out a new Ole touchpad that is twice is good as the original.

Introduced last year, Ole has been one of Elan's most successful launches. The interface has a small LCD screen, surrounded by virtual buttons embedded on a static, decorative display. Elan calls it a "Film Interactive Touchpad" or FIT.

At CEDIA, Elan will introduce a larger Ole, the Ole XL (extra large), featuring an OLED display that is twice as big as the original. "You only have to toggle through three screens to see all of the sources," Moore says. The display also provides more text-based metadata (8 lines x 20 characters) than the smaller version.

Moore adds that the larger screen provides higher resolution and allows larger icons than its predecessor.

The Ole XL fits in the same backbox as the original Ole--great for upgrades.

More VIA!

One little problem with the pre-made…

Colorado vNet started out doing lighting control systems, and then added digital multiroom audio to the mix. After the company integrated lighting and audio controls in a single touchscreen solution called Vibe, we surmised that energy management and security couldn't be far behind.

Indeed, vNet will show in September a new controller for interfacing with third-party thermostats and security systems.

Out of the gate, the company will support Aprilaire thermostats and Honeywell Vista security panels.

"It's something we've been getting a lot of requests for," says director of sales and marketing Ben Beierwaltes. "People who have been so in love with our system really wanted to offer a full solution."

Currently, each of the four subsystems (audio, lighting, security, energy) is controlled independently. You cannot create macros that span multiple disciplines (e.g., a HOME scene triggers the security system to disarm, the…

Osterville, MA. September, 2007— Savant Systems LLC, founded in 2005 and chartered to bring a visionary solution to home automation that emphasizes reliability and a maintenance-friendly open platform, is proud to announce that the publishers of Electronic House magazine have selected Savant’s ROSIE Controller as one of its Electronic House Products of the Year for 2007. “The Electronic House award is prestigious and everyone within our organization is honored to have had the ROSIE controller selected,” noted Savant president Jim Carroll. “Savant is truly thrilled to have been recognized for the innovations we have brought to the home automation market segment.”

The recipients of the 2007 Products of the Year awards will be featured in the September Issue of Electronic House magazine, which will be distributed to thousands of CEDIA Expo attendees and also available on local newsstands throughout the US. The award will be presented at a ceremony during the early September CEDIA trade show being held in Denver, CO.

About Savant:…

Crestron and Microsoft are doing something big together. The two companies are expected to launch some kind of media-centric control platform that will take their offerings "to a whole new level," says Fred Bargetzi, VP of technology for Crestron.

He and Crestron executive VP Randy Klein, however, refused to say just what kind of solution the two companies plan to introduce. They won't divulge their entire plans at CEDIA, but the duo will at least reveal the depth of their partnership, and may hint at their direction.

Crestron has been warming up to Microsoft for years. It started back in 2004 when the company introduced the Isys i/O line of touchpanels running Windows Embedded OS.

Crestron's next generation mobile Web/control interface, the XP-enabled TPMC-8X, introduced in September, 2006, was an even more striking Windows implementation, where Internet functionality was tightly integrated with home controls. For example, a Skype call might trigger a movie to pause and the lights to…