All Articles Tagged Nfc

Julie Jacobson | 09/18 01:02 PM, 0 Comments

As we noted in our CE Pro Top 5 Home Technologies for 2012, Near Field Communication (NFC) could be the next big thing in home automation. Crestron showed the most extensive NFC home automation demo to date at CEDIA Expo 2012 with its new AirConnect solution. At the show, an NFC-enabled smartphone unlocked a door and the music turned on to the user’s preferred channel. In the AirConnect ecosystem, paper-thin NFC tags are embedded throughout the house – behind keypads, within light dimmers, atop door locks …. The two-way technology… View this story

Petro Shimonishi | 09/07 09:00 AM,

Near Field Communication (NFC) was one of CE Pro's Top 5 Home Technologies to watch for 2012. Well, you can watch it at CEDIA Expo 2012, where Crestron has implemented it booth-wide via a new technology called airConnect. I may be dating myself here, but remember back in 2007 when Bill Gates introduced Microsoft's answer to the digital home? The technology allowed for automatic personalization of the end user’s HVAC, lighting, artwork, and favorite TV channels via wireless communication from a pendant that he or she would wear to the… View this story

Julie Jacobson | 08/23 06:26 AM, 6 Comments

My own integrator, Drew Wiatrak of Sensation Design Group in the Twin Cities, tells me he’s going to CEDIA Expo 2012 because, “I am wanting to check out the new blinds stuff from Crestron!” Those would be Crestron’s first line of motorized shades that the company announced recently. The manufacturer boasts the “quietest motor on the market” for its motorized roller shades, Roman shades, skylight shades and drapery track systems. But that’s not all you’ll see from Crestron this year. In a teaser sent out to the press, Crestron says… View this story

Julie Jacobson | 09/19 10:25 AM, 3 Comments

Soon you'll be able to open your doors simply by holding a smartphone near the lock, thanks to new consumer-grade NFC-enabled door locks from Yale. NFC (near field communication) is a fast-growing technology that enables simple data exchanges between two devices in close proximity. Today, the technology is used almost exclusively in commercial applications, for example, to provide product information when users hold their smartphones near an NFC-enabled poster. NFC also is gaining traction for mobile payment and is the technology behind Google Wallet, expected to launch today with much… View this story