Keeping your Distance: offering customers peace of mind through KNX remote access
By Mark Warburton, Ivory Egg. With everything that’s been going on over the last few months, it’s easy to forget the change of seasons, especially for those that have been on the strictest of lockdowns. As we start to see a relaxation of restrictions, it feels like we are all leaving our homes to a […]
Saving the Planet: the all-electric house
By Simon Buddle, Future Ready Homes. So, I have officially ridden more miles on my bicycle this month than I have driven in my van, and with this hot weather, the shower has been in use a lot. We have been encouraged for years to have a shower rather than a bath – and for […]
BAB Technologie Smart Home Apps Offer KNX Integration with Logitech Harmony Remote Controls and Russound Multiroom Audio
Discover new smart home apps The BAB APP MARKET is constantly extended with the latest IoT and Smarthome functionalities through Smart Home Apps. This enables you to bring many technologies quickly and easily into the world of KNX and EnOcean with the APPMODULE from BAB TECHNOLOGIE. The latest developments include: HARMONY KNX – KNX integration […]
B.E.G. Launches KNX Occupancy Detectors with Human Centric Lighting Control
The intelligence for light control and light quality: occupancy detectors With its KNX Generation 7, B.E.G. is launching KNX occupancy detectors on the market that feature outstanding innovations in the control light quality. These include the integration of an HCL control system. HCL stands for “Human Centric Lighting”, a lighting control system that puts the […]
Elsner Elektonik Announces New KNX Lighting Controller for DALI
Broadcast control simplifies maintenance The KNX DALI L4 bc 16 A lighting controller from Elsner Elektronik controls four DALI channels by broadcast command and can switch off each channel via a relay. Staircase light switching, scenes and colour control in the RGB(W) and HSV colour spectrum are just some of the possibilities of the KNX […]
Looking Past the Current Crisis: practical examples of helping the environment with KNX
By Yasmin Hashmi, KNXtoday. As I write, the world is facing two obvious crises; COVID-19 and the climate. In both cases, the most pressing imperative is to save lives. The second, arguably, is to balance a sustainable world economy with a healthy environment. This is where KNX plays an important role. My publisher, Stella Plumbridge […]
Virtual Show: a selection of Spring KNX product previews and launches
By Mark Warburton, Ivory Egg. With everything going on around the world, it is really inspiring to see the way people and communities are working together to support each other and those that are less able or fortunate. Even seeing how businesses are reacting is a source of positivity, with a huge number of companies […]
View from America: OT interoperability – the key to intelligent buildings
By Philip R. Juneau. ‘Interoperability is the ability of two or more systems to interact with each other, whereby the technical interfaces to each system are completely and bi-directionally recognised by each other.’ This is the pure technical definition, taken from the Information Technology (IT) or Operational Technology (OT) perspective. This does not, however, take […]
Enertex Announces Availability of KNX TP Secure Coupler
The KNX TP Secure Coupler (2 TE) enables the coupling of standard and secure TP lines via a TP backbone. Setup is carried out either via standard KNX data communication or secure commissioning via Data Secure. Telegram rate limitation, max. telegram lengths of up to 248 bytes and bus performance of up to 49 telegrams […]
Eelectron Extends its KNX Product Portfolio
Eelectron is glad to announce the extension of its products portfolio with the following new devices: Weather Station Plus KNX (code WS00A01KNX) This supports the measurement and evaluation of weather data: Wind speed, Wind direction, Precipitation, Brightness, Global radiation Twilight, Temperature, Relative air humidity and Air pressure– Installation on the outside of buildings, preferable in […]