The Smart Home Show seminar programme 2008
The Smart Home Show seminar programme, put together and delivered by CEDIA (Custom Electronic Design and Installation Association), has been designed to educate you about the importance of considering provisioning for, and installing, technology when you are renovating or building a new home. Presented by industry experts and not promoting any specific products or brands, these seminars will provide an invaluable insight into how to enhance your lifestyles using technology in the home.
10.30 - 11.15
The Intelligent Home - How technology can enhance your life.
This course will help educate you to ensure that homes are usefully connected internally and externally to electronic and data services for the foreseeable future; to provide an understanding of the basic techniques and the terminology of Custom Installation; to reveal what's possible in home electronic design; and to ensure that architects, designers, specifiers, self builders and developers know who to ask when they need help in a particular area.
11.30 - 12.15
The ECO Home - How home technology can help the environment
Advanced Technology in the home has the potential to save energy over conventional designs rather than use more. We will look at how solutions such as intelligent blinds and lighting can help you save energy. We will also look at ways of controlling heating and air conditioning as well as monitoring energy usage.
12.30 - 1.15
What cables do I need to install for my Entertainment, Communications, Security and Automation Systems?
It is critical that at the design stage of your build you look at installing a cable infrastructure to make your house ready for the 21st century. We will be looking at how to do this, as well as investigating wired vs wireless vs fibre solutions.
1.30 - 2.15
The Property Developer's Guide To Residential Technology
Rather than being perceived as installing unnecessary cables and equipment that just gets taken off the bottom line, this course will explain how the public's perception of technology enhancing their lives means that technology can be used as an essential selling point of any development. We will also be talking about ideas to market technology and how to develop off plan technology packages that can be sold to your clients as part of the main contract.
2.30 - 3.15
What's hot in home entertainment systems
The world of home entertainment is changing fast. Digital content, high-definition, multi-channel audio and portable devices are just some of the technologies that are changing the way that we look at entertainment systems in the home. This seminar will be a very visual tour through some of the technologies and trends that you should keep an eye on in the coming year.
3.30 - 4.15
What cables do I need to have for my Entertainment, Communications, Security and Automation Systems?
It is critical that at the design stage of your build you look at installing a cable infrastructure to make your house ready for the 21st century. We will be looking at how to do this as well as investigating wired vs wireless vs fibre solutions.
CEDIA is an international non-profit making trade organisation with over 400 member companies in Europe. With education as their main remit, CEDIA strives to raise the levels of knowledge and excellence amongst its members, as well as educating specifiers and the public about the potential of technology in the home. CEDIA members adhere to a strict code of conduct to ensure that they help you achieve your dream of technology perfectly integrated into your home and lifestyle.