Crestron Systems Crestron Multi Room Systems
Many companies such as Crestron offers both a complete wireless solution and power line equipment to distribute control throughout the home without the need to tear out walls and completely redesign the home infrastructure. Crestron has complete, unified product line that provides building blocks to custom tailor a system to your technical and financial needs. Crestron starts by providing an off the shelf audio distribution system that incorporates stylish decora keypads and low cost in wall touch panels. The audio distribution system can be built up to control the home theatre by adding a few components to the base system such as a Crestron ST-1550C RF Color wireless touch panel. This touch panel not only serves as the ultimate remote control for the home theater, but as a mobile that can take complete control of your home from any room. Add in some wired touch panels, a Crestron e-control web interface, DTMF telephone control, and link in other components such as security, lighting, etc. for a state of the art home automation system. Only Crestron provides a complete solution that allows you to start simple and expand to your hearts content.
Crestron offers an array of flexibility for the user in this arena. From any touch panel, users can custom tailor presets and automated functions to suit their needs as they grow with the system. Users have one touch access to schedule events such as turning on the outside lights at 7:00PM and setting back the thermostats in the house. Software upgrades are available via the Internet to allow your systems integrator to make more sophisticated upgrades and options available for your use. Only Crestron offers this unique feature to allow seamless maintenance, service, and support without the inconvenience of a visit to your home. Crestron system is the worlds first and only IP based control system. What this means to you and I is that using standard CAT5 wiring though out the home, Crestron system can plug directly into the LAN that is shared with any computers that you may have in the home. This seamless integration allows Crestron to be controlled via a web browser both from within your home or at the office via a standard internet connection. The internet also provides the gateway for your home control system to alert you via email, cell phone, or pager that you have a security breach, or that the kids came home. All Crestron products communicate via IP which is the world standard. That means that we can leverage our technology to work with everything that the PC industry has made readily available. Crestron systems can be linked together with off the shelf components because we didn't invent a proprietary protocol. This is the limiting factor in all other controls system available today. Crestron systems are completely modular and can infinitely expanded. As a matter of fact, because our communication standard is via IP, we support the capability to link to over 3 billion devices! Crestron is the glue that ties all other equipment together. Our only business is control systems designed to link devices of any kind together to harness technology and make it usable in an everyday format. |
