Working from Home: bringing the home office up to standard using KNX
GMT+0700 06 June 2021
With so many more people working from home due to the pandemic, Simon Buddle discusses how KNX can be used to facilitate and safe and healthy environment. In spare bedrooms across the world, people have set up their temporary offices. The neighbour across the road has become the nearest thing I have to a work
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Top Tips: interfacing with external systems and choosing the most suitable products
GMT+0700 06 June 2021
Mark Warburton outlines the different ways in which KNX systems can communicate with non-KNX systems, and offers some tips on choosing the best product for a given application. As a technical distributor, we are regularly asked to come up with control solutions to meet specific customer or product requirements. With KNX providing such a powerful
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A Fresh Perspective: three ways KNX changed my opinion of ‘smart’
GMT+0700 06 June 2021
Luke Thomas of Ivory Egg explains the key features of KNX that turned him into a convert, and how these can be exploited to increase business. Until joining Ivory Egg, my idea of a smart home was smart plugs, off-the-shelf ‘intelligent’ lightbulbs, a few clever widgets on my phone and some home assistant speakers dotted
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Energy Management: integrating EVs with KNX for intelligent charging
GMT+0700 06 June 2021
Casto Cañavate looks at the growth of the electric vehicle market and how it makes sense to integrate charging within a KNX energy management system at home or at work. In recent years we have seen a dramatic change in the automotive sector. Whilst consumers are opting to buy the more sustainable electric vehicle (EV),
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Independent Living: KNX meets assistive technology
GMT+0700 06 June 2021
Andy Ellis looks at how standard KNX technology can be used to help elderly and disabled people have control over their environments, and gives some great practical examples of installations using assistive technology. Assistive technology can help people stay independent and perform tasks that they had previously found difficult or impossible for various reasons. These
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Heat Control: using sensors to move from the subjective to the empirical
GMT+0700 06 June 2021
Simon Buddle explains how investing in some basic temperature sensing equipment can avoid climate control issues with customers and provide supportive data to the KNX professional. Temperature is probably one of the most emotive areas, in our world, with which we deal. Any parent will know the challenge of trying to keep a coat on
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