09November
NEW CRESTRON HOME TECHNOLOGY DOMINATES CEDIA AWARDS 2010
New Crestron Home Entertainment and Control Products Honoured with Eleven Awards at World's Largest Home Technology Show; Crestron Dealers Rule CEDIA Designer Awards
CEDIA, Custom Electronic Design & Installation Association, announced the winners of the prestigious Electronic Lifestyles® Awards during its annual Awards Banquet at CEDIA EXPO 2010 in Atlanta. New Crestron products were honoured with three Electronic Lifestyles awards in a wide range of home technology categories including home control, high definition surround sound processing, and energy management software. Crestron won a total of eleven product awards at the show. Crestron was also the control system in nearly ¾ of the winning Designer Award installations, including 12 of 15 Gold winners and all four overall winners, more than any other company.
The CEDIA Designer Awards competition honours the best projects by CEDIA installers in categories such as Best Integrated Home, Best Media Room, and Best Large Home Theater.
"Crestron congratulates each winner in every category, and we commend their hard work, dedication and ingenuity in driving our industry forward," said Crestron Executive Vice President, Randy Klein. "We're especially proud to have contributed to the success of so many of the dealers who were honored this year."
Recognizing only one winner out of hundreds of entrants for each category, the UFO-ER Handheld Wireless Touchpanel won the Horizon Award which honours the best in future home technology. Fusion Viridian™ Energy Management Software received the Sustainable Lifestyles Product Innovation Award for best energy saving solution.
The PROCISE High-Definition Professional 7.3 Surround Sound Processor won the first annual Attendees' Choice Award, as voted on by installers attending the week long tradeshow.
"Crestron is proud to have our new generation of home technology products so well received by the industry experts here at CEDIA, and by our dealers," said Crestron Director of Marketing, Vincent Bruno. "This is a strong statement that obviously confirms our dedication to home technology innovation, the CE industry, and our long term commitment to engineering the future."
"CEDIA's Electronic Lifestyles® Awards represent the electronic systems industry's best work," said CEDIA CEO Utz Baldwin. "These award winners are at the leading edge of the innovation that will keep this industry moving forward."
A list of the Gold Level and Best Overall winning installations featuring Crestron technology follows:
- Best Large Home Theater Overall Winner Future Home, Los Angeles, CA
- Best Integrated Home Overall Winner New Space Technologies Ltd, Vancouver, BC, Canada
- Best Media Room Overall Winner Audio Images, Tustin, CA
- Best Hidden Installation Overall Winner Engineered Environments, Alameda, CA
- Large Home Theater Level I: $50,000-$107,000 Architectural Electronics, Winter Park, FL
- Large Home Theater Level IV: $250,000-$302,000 Audio Images, Tustin, CA
- Large Home Theater Level V: $400,000-$530,000 Epic Home Cinema, Marietta, GA
- Large Home Theater Level VI: $1,000,000+ Future Home, Los Angeles, CA
- Integrated Home Level I: $77,000 - $140,000 DSI Entertainment Systems, Los Angeles, CA
- Integrated Home Level II: $145,000 - $241,000 Architectural Electronics, Winter Park, FL
- Integrated Home Level III: $280,000 - $375,000 Ambiance Systems, Clifton Park, NY
- Integrated Home Level V: $505,500 - $770,000 Aurant, Salt Lake City, UT
- Integrated Home Level VI: $1,000,000+ Engineered Environments, Alameda, CA
- Best Dressed System Future Home, Los Angeles, CA
- Best Documentation Engineered Environments, Alameda, CA
- Best Media Room-Gold Audio Images, Tustin, CA
- Best Hidden Installation - Gold Engineered Environments, Alameda, CA
- Special Project - Technical Design - Gold Engineered Environments, Alameda, CA
About the award-winning products:
UFO's distinctive disc shape and 4.3" active-matrix touchscreen only begin to maximize today's home control experience. Powered by the new Core 3 OS, UFO enables powerful new capabilities to easily create animated control objects, apps, and custom 3D effects. Never limited by distance, enhanced gestures navigation enables easy finger swipe browsing of music and movie libraries, TV/radio stations and home control apps while conveniently displaying cover art and metadata.
Viridian™ software provides homeowners with the first complete energy management system that unifies all home technology. Viridian combines home control, real-time usage monitoring, and scheduling of every environmental system/appliance on a single scalable platform. An assortment of charts, gauges, meters and graphs gives homeowners multiple real-time views of baseline and current energy consumption.
PROCISE™ combines advanced digital audio technology with an innovative retro design, to deliver a high definition surround sound experience that is amazingly crisp and clear. The only professional 7.3 surround sound processor available today, PROCISE produces a captivating audio performance designed for high-end home theaters and listening rooms.
The CEDIA Designer Awards competition honours the best projects by CEDIA installers in categories such as Best Integrated Home, Best Media Room, and Best Large Home Theater.
"Crestron congratulates each winner in every category, and we commend their hard work, dedication and ingenuity in driving our industry forward," said Crestron Executive Vice President, Randy Klein. "We're especially proud to have contributed to the success of so many of the dealers who were honored this year."
Recognizing only one winner out of hundreds of entrants for each category, the UFO-ER Handheld Wireless Touchpanel won the Horizon Award which honours the best in future home technology. Fusion Viridian™ Energy Management Software received the Sustainable Lifestyles Product Innovation Award for best energy saving solution.
The PROCISE High-Definition Professional 7.3 Surround Sound Processor won the first annual Attendees' Choice Award, as voted on by installers attending the week long tradeshow.
"Crestron is proud to have our new generation of home technology products so well received by the industry experts here at CEDIA, and by our dealers," said Crestron Director of Marketing, Vincent Bruno. "This is a strong statement that obviously confirms our dedication to home technology innovation, the CE industry, and our long term commitment to engineering the future."
"CEDIA's Electronic Lifestyles® Awards represent the electronic systems industry's best work," said CEDIA CEO Utz Baldwin. "These award winners are at the leading edge of the innovation that will keep this industry moving forward."
A list of the Gold Level and Best Overall winning installations featuring Crestron technology follows:
- Best Large Home Theater Overall Winner Future Home, Los Angeles, CA
- Best Integrated Home Overall Winner New Space Technologies Ltd, Vancouver, BC, Canada
- Best Media Room Overall Winner Audio Images, Tustin, CA
- Best Hidden Installation Overall Winner Engineered Environments, Alameda, CA
- Large Home Theater Level I: $50,000-$107,000 Architectural Electronics, Winter Park, FL
- Large Home Theater Level IV: $250,000-$302,000 Audio Images, Tustin, CA
- Large Home Theater Level V: $400,000-$530,000 Epic Home Cinema, Marietta, GA
- Large Home Theater Level VI: $1,000,000+ Future Home, Los Angeles, CA
- Integrated Home Level I: $77,000 - $140,000 DSI Entertainment Systems, Los Angeles, CA
- Integrated Home Level II: $145,000 - $241,000 Architectural Electronics, Winter Park, FL
- Integrated Home Level III: $280,000 - $375,000 Ambiance Systems, Clifton Park, NY
- Integrated Home Level V: $505,500 - $770,000 Aurant, Salt Lake City, UT
- Integrated Home Level VI: $1,000,000+ Engineered Environments, Alameda, CA
- Best Dressed System Future Home, Los Angeles, CA
- Best Documentation Engineered Environments, Alameda, CA
- Best Media Room-Gold Audio Images, Tustin, CA
- Best Hidden Installation - Gold Engineered Environments, Alameda, CA
- Special Project - Technical Design - Gold Engineered Environments, Alameda, CA
About the award-winning products:
UFO's distinctive disc shape and 4.3" active-matrix touchscreen only begin to maximize today's home control experience. Powered by the new Core 3 OS, UFO enables powerful new capabilities to easily create animated control objects, apps, and custom 3D effects. Never limited by distance, enhanced gestures navigation enables easy finger swipe browsing of music and movie libraries, TV/radio stations and home control apps while conveniently displaying cover art and metadata.
Viridian™ software provides homeowners with the first complete energy management system that unifies all home technology. Viridian combines home control, real-time usage monitoring, and scheduling of every environmental system/appliance on a single scalable platform. An assortment of charts, gauges, meters and graphs gives homeowners multiple real-time views of baseline and current energy consumption.
PROCISE™ combines advanced digital audio technology with an innovative retro design, to deliver a high definition surround sound experience that is amazingly crisp and clear. The only professional 7.3 surround sound processor available today, PROCISE produces a captivating audio performance designed for high-end home theaters and listening rooms.
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