Trade Talk: The Effect of ETS Inside on the Smart Home Market
By Simon Buddle, Future Ready Homes. My dad has long since retired, but during his working life – all of it – he drove lorries. He drove them to Scotland, London, Spain, Iraq and just about every other place in between. In the school holidays, I’d often go with him. We’d take fruit and vegetables […]
Interview: Sam Pound-Jones, Ivory Egg
Ivory Egg was founded in 2005 as the first dedicated, UK-based, KNX supplier and training centre. Since then, the company has expanded across multiple territories, including the UK, Australia and New Zealand. Sam Pound-Jones joined in 2014. With a background in systems integration and financial sales, he spent the first 7 months as an account […]
Trade Talk: Getting Involved with Heating Plant – is it any of our business?
By Simon Buddle, Future Ready Homes. It is once more the turning of the season’s tides. The long grey is finally giving up and the days are, at last, beginning to brighten and lengthen. And with it comes the day-by-day rise in ambient air temperature, solar gain and sudden and often dramatic temperature drops late […]
Tips: Blind Control
By Mark Warburton, Ivory Egg. The change of seasons is a timely reminder of how much the external environment impacts on the internal spaces we live and work. It could be returning home to a dark house because the days are shorter, the sudden return of glare on your computer screen or the joy of […]
Hands On: Retrofitting a Home with KNX
By Paul Foulkes, EchoHouse Energy. Just before Christmas in 2015, the family and I moved house. The building we purchased required a lot of work – we knew this from the beginning, but it had a great ‘footprint’ and would become a wonderful home. The need for this work gave me an ideal opportunity to […]
Profile: Rafal Borek, Home of Technologies
By Yasmin Hashmi, KNXtoday. Rafal Borek is the director of Home of Technologies (HoT), a value-added distributor of electrical and engineering components with a focus on building and home automation. He is a KNX and PLC (Programmable Logic Controller) solutions expert and head teacher at the HoT training centre, and his main focus is to […]
Case Study: KNX-controlled Super House in Melbourne Australia
By Richard Sagar, Sagar Smart Homes. This triple award-winning high-end project combines off-grid living with unbridled luxury. Based in Melbourne, Australia, the Melbourne Super House has allowed the homeowners to realise a lifetime of dreams, and features a fully integrated automation system to complement the needs of the property, made possible via the versatility of […]
Show Report: KNX at ISE – Visualisation and Voice Control Make Waves
By Simon Buddle, Future Ready Homes. Another ISE and another bumper year. The RAI Conference Centre is now officially full, with a large marquee erected in the central square to accommodate the overspill. Next year, they say, they’ll be filling the front car park space with marquees. The event is now, effectively, a week-long event. […]
Overview: Voice Control is Making Consumers Think
By Mark Warburton, Ivory Egg. Once again ISE has exceeded expectations with a huge jump in visitor numbers and exhibitors. One of the big themes across the show and also at the Smart Building Conference on the Monday, was voice control. Whilst the rapid roll-out and marketing hype around voice control does lead one to […]
Software Update: ETS Inside – Making it Easier for Installers and End Users
By Yasmin Hashmi, KNXtoday. For systems integrators, KNX is an excellent protocol to use as a building control system. It is a worldwide standard and is very reliable. It uses a bus structure onto which thousands of compliant products, such as power supplies, sensors, actuators and user interfaces, from hundreds of manufacturers, can be attached. […]