• CEPro_logo_blue-new
  • TOPICS
      • News
        • People & Places
        • Product Briefs
      • Projects
      • Events
      • Control
        • Central Vac
        • Energy/Power
        • HVAC/IAQ
        • Interfaces/Devices
        • Lighting
        • Motorized Shades
        • Whole House Systems
      • Audio/Video
        • Audio/Video
        • AV Accessories
        • AV Racks
        • Cabling
        • Displays
        • Furniture
        • Headphones
        • Home Theater
        • Media
        • Mounts/Lifts
        • Multiroom AV
        • Projectors/Screens
        • Speakers/Subwoofers
        • Wireless AV
      • Security
        • Access Control
        • Alarms/Sensors
        • Services/Platforms
        • Surveillance/Cameras
      • Business Support
        • Associations/Buying Groups
        • Cell Phone Boosters
        • Distributors/Reps
        • Operations
        • Recurring Revenue
        • Research
        • Sales/Marketing
        • Software Services
        • Tools/Testers
      • Networking
        • Cellular
        • Devices/Equipment
        • Wireless
        • Wired/Installation
      • Markets
        • Builders
        • Commercial
        • Design
        • Europe
        • Outdoors
        • Resimercial
        • Wellness
      • CE Pro Hub Pages
        • Bose
        • Savant
        • Inside Sound United
  • PRODUCTS
  • RESOURCES
    • Reports/Downloads
    • Buyer’s Guide
    • Webcasts
    • Podcasts
    • Integrator Jobs
    • Digital Edition
    • CE Pro-iQ
  • SUBSCRIBE
    • CEDIA SHOW UPDATES
    • CEPRO PRINT EDITION
    • CEPRO DIGITAL EDITION
    • CEPRO NEWSLETTERS
  • DISCOVER
    • CEDIA Expo
      • September 29 – October 1
        Dallas, TX
      • VISIT SITE
    • KBIS
      • February 8 – 10
        Orlando, FL
      • VISIT SITE
    • Total Tech Summit
      • October 26 – 28
        Orlando, FL
      • VISIT SITE
    • Commercial Integrator
      • VISIT SITE
    • Security Sales
      • VISIT SITE
    • Tech Decisions
      • VISIT SITE
    • Campus Safety
      • VISIT SITE
    • Design Well
      • VISIT SITE
    • KBB Online
      • VISIT SITE
    • AV-iQ
      • VISIT SITE
    • CE Pro-iQ
      • VISIT SITE
  • Search
  • TOPICS
    • News
      • People & Places
      • Product Briefs
    • Projects
    • Events
    • Control
      • Central Vac
      • Energy/Power
      • HVAC/IAQ
      • Interfaces/Devices
      • Lighting
      • Motorized Shades
      • Whole House Systems
    • Audio/Video
      • Audio/Video
      • AV Accessories
      • AV Racks
      • Cabling
      • Displays
      • Furniture
      • Headphones
      • Home Theater
      • Media
      • Mounts/Lifts
      • Multiroom AV
      • Projectors/Screens
      • Speakers/Subwoofers
      • Wireless AV
    • Security
      • Access Control
      • Alarms/Sensors
      • Services/Platforms
      • Surveillance/Cameras
    • Business Support
      • Associations/Buying Groups
      • Cell Phone Boosters
      • Distributors/Reps
      • Operations
      • Recurring Revenue
      • Research
      • Sales/Marketing
      • Software Services
      • Tools/Testers
    • Networking
      • Cellular
      • Devices/Equipment
      • Wireless
      • Wired/Installation
    • Markets
      • Builders
      • Commercial
      • Design
      • Europe
      • Outdoors
      • Resimercial
      • Wellness
    • CE Pro Hub Pages
      • Savant
      • Bose
      • Inside Sound United
  • PRODUCTS
  • RESOURCES
    • Reports/Downloads
    • Buyer’s Guide
    • Webcasts
    • Podcasts
    • Integrator Jobs
    • Digital Edition
    • CE Pro-IQ
  • SUBSCRIBE
    • CEPRO PRINT EDITION
    • CEPRO DIGITAL EDITION
    • CEPRO NEWSLETTERS
    • CEDIA SHOW UPDATES
  • DISCOVER
    • Cedia Expo
      VISIT SITE
    • Commercial Integrator
      VISIT SITE
    • Security Sales
      VISIT SITE
    • Tech Decisions
      VISIT SITE
    • Campus Safety
      VISIT SITE
    • Design Well
      VISIT SITE
    • Total Tech Summit
      VISIT SITE
    • KBB Online
      VISIT SITE
    • AV-iQ
    • CE Pro-iQ
M
POPULAR SEARCHES
News
Projects
Control
Audio Video
Security
Business Support
Markets
SUBSCRIBE CEDIA EXPO
Markets | News | Wellness
February 9, 2021

CEDIA Wants to Propel Your Fitness & Sleep Wellness Technology Business

Why CEDIA Propel program partners Immersive Gym and Bryte show bright future for health-related integration technology.
Giles Sutton
CEDIA Wants to Propel Your Fitness & Sleep Wellness Technology Business

CEDIA Propel partner Immersive Gym works with CEDIA member integrators to create engaging AV environments as part of the experience.

Article:
Markets | News | Wellness
February 9, 2021

CEDIA Wants to Propel Your Fitness & Sleep Wellness Technology Business

“Wellness” seemingly applies to any product or practice that makes people feel good about themselves. It’s been used by brands spanning technology, fitness, and spiritualism to sell everything from smartwatches to essential oils. At its core, though, wellness is about control — a concept the technology integration community understands better than anyone.

While health is not strictly within our control — a person can do everything right and still have their health devastated by a virus, accident, or bit of genetic bad luck — wellness encompasses those factors people can control: the lifestyle choices they make in order to positively influence health outcomes.

Wellness technologies have traditionally focused on the quantified self: fitness trackers, smartwatches, and their ilk give consumers insights into their own actions. Custom technology integrators have the unique skillset to empower their customers to extend this control beyond their actions to their environments.

“The architectural community is ready to embrace wellness as an integral part of a building’s concept,” says Peter Aylett, partner at HTE (Home Theatre Environment). “While much of the talk is about off-the-shelf consumer product, we have the opportunity to ensure that wellness is integrated into the fabric of the building with technologies including circadian lighting, noise and acoustic control, air quality monitoring, managed sleep systems, audio/visual biophilic simulation and immersive exercise and simulation spaces.”

CEDIA Propel Program Features Immersive Gym, Bryte

CEDIA’s Propel program was created to connect integrators to technologies and brands in emerging categories like wellness. The partners in this program can help integrators understand and address some of their customers’ wellness needs.

Join Us At Total Tech Summit 2022

Total Tech Summit is where the integration industry elite gather. It's your chance to build rock solid industry connections to grow your firm and advance your career. We invite you to apply today for a free trip to join us in Orlando October 26-28, 2022. Apply now!

For example, fitness is a top-of-mind health concern for most consumers, but good exercise habits are extremely difficult to maintain. CEDIA Propel partner Immersive Gym works with association member integrators to create compelling immersive environments with interactive content that encourages homeowners to honor their fitness commitments.

“We’ve aimed to create world’s most engaging and rewarding fitness environment,” says Charles Pearce, founder of Immersive Gym. “The gym is usually a fairly dire and grim place to work out. Having an environment that is dynamic, constantly changing and evolving, encourages you to go in there more often.”

CEDIA Propel Bryte
CEDIA Propel partner Bryte’s Restorative Bed targets the highly important wellness segment of sleep-related issues.

Sleep is another top wellness concern for consumers. The National Institutes of Health estimate that up to 70 million Americans suffer from chronic sleep issues, contributing to a global “sleep wellness market” valued at $432 billion dollars by Frost & Sullivan. Customers who list “better sleep” among their wellness goals may not be aware of how much their environment throughout the day impacts the quality of their sleep, and how smart home solutions can help them achieve a more restorative night’s rest.

Propel partner Bryte created the Restorative Bed to not only measure the quality of customers’ sleep, but to proactively respond to their needs, making minute adjustments to temperature and pressure along the sleep surface throughout the night.

“Our goal is to return customers’ sleep to its fullest potential,” says Ely Tsern, founder of Bryte. “Everyone sleeps really differently; it’s a very dynamic process. The Restorative Bed is equipped with deep technology that effectively learns how you sleep, improving your restorative sleep night after night.”

The Restorative Bed can also integrate with HUE lighting to direct circadian lighting, and further smart home integrations are scheduled for the future.

Active Assistive Living Also Adjacent to Wellness Plans

Custom integrators can also help customers regain independence they may have lost due to age or disability. Active Assistive Living (AAL) is an extension of wellness focused on using technology in place of lost physical or cognitive function.

CE Pro Podcast CEDIA Wellness Walt Zerbe
Related: CE Pro Podcast #41: What’s Your Wellness Technology Game Plan?

As consumers grow more comfortable integrating technology into their wellness routines, expanded opportunities will arise for integrators to provide customized solutions for customers with mobility or cognitive impairments. These customers will be able to use expertly integrated technologies to control their surroundings and connect with their family members.

“As an opportunity, AAL has the potential to eclipse every other category of product that the CEDIA channel specifies and installs,” Aylett suggests.

“AAL is born of need, rather than considered a luxury. The CEDIA community is uniquely positioned with a skillset to work with insurance, social and healthcare providers to develop, sell and install architecturally integrated solutions that will profoundly positively affect the quality of life for millions of people of all ages.”

The skills needed to deliver effective wellness solutions are deeply intertwined with the custom integration and control services the CEDIA channel has always offered. When wellness is involved, the solutions are more than simply beautiful or convenient. This time, it’s personal.


Author Giles Sutton is interim co-CEO of CEDIA.

ARTICLE TOPICS

Markets • News • Wellness

ARTICLE TAGS

Aging in Place • Bryte • CEDIA • Health and Wellness

SHARE

Share On Facebook
Share On Twitter
Share On Linkedin
Share On Whatsapp
Share Via Email
Copy URL
← Previous Article Next Article →
Article MarketsWellness

Selling Wellness Technology: 7 Ways Integrators Already Know How

Integrators may already be prepared for selling wellness technology without knowing it -- are you involved in any of these seven areas?
Article CEPro 100News

CE Pro 100 Integrator Wipliance Acquires Eastern Wash.-Based Huppin’s

Perennial CE Pro 100 integrator Wipliance adds to its Seattle-area and Scottsdale, Ariz., bases by acquiring 114-year-old Huppin's of Spokane, Wash.
Article MarketsWellness

Selling Wellness Technology: 7 Ways Integrators Already Know How

Integrators may already be prepared for selling wellness technology without knowing it -- are you involved in any of these seven areas?
Article CommercialDevices/EquipmentNetworkingNewsResearchWireless

Wi-Fi 6E Market Set for Rapid Expansion

ABI Research predicts shipments of Wi-Fi 6E access points will more than triple by 2024 to 5.2M units, driven by 6GHz spectrum deployment.

SHOW NEWSLETTER

Sign Up

CE Pro

Subscribe Sign Up

Content Types

News
Products
Projects
Companies
Downloads
Webcasts
Podcasts
Events

Specials

IntegratorJobs
CEDIA EXPO
CE Pro 100
CE Pro Summit
Awards Programs

Company Info

About
Contact Us
Customer Service
Media Solutions & Advertising

Subscribe

Magazine
Newsletters
Digital Edition

Connect

Twitter
Facebook
LinkedIn
YouTube
RSS Feed

Categories

AUDIO/VIDEO
AV Accessories
AV Racks
Amplifiers/Receivers
Cabling
Displays
Furniture
Mounts/Lifts
Multiroom AV
Projector Screens
Speakers/Subwoofers
Wireless AV
CONTROL
Central Vac
Energy/Power
Interfaces/Devices
HVAC/IAQ
Lighting
Motorized Shades
Whole-House Systems
NETWORKING
Cellular
Devices/Equipment
Wireless
Wiring/Installation
SECURITY
Access Control
Alarms/Sensors
Services/Platforms
Surveillance Cameras
BUSINESS SUPPORT
Associations/Buying Groups
Distributors/Reps
Operations
Recurring Revenue
Research
Sales/Marketing
Software/Services
Tools/Testers
MARKETS
Builders
Commercial
Design
Europe
Outdoors
Wellness
FOLLOW US ON
  • Follow
  • Follow
  • Follow
  • Follow
  • Follow

© 2021 Emerald X, LLC. All Rights Reserved.

  • ABOUT
  • CAREERS
  • TERMS OF USE
  • PRIVACY POLICY