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MOVING WITH THE TIMES Awareness of the advantages of smart home technology continues to grow, with its role in energy management and fighting climate change making it impossible for house builders and designers to ignore. Sue Redman, Marketing Consultant for KNX UK, discusses some of the smart home systems that can help building owners simplify their lives and save energy.
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hile there are many smart home systems on the market that enable the integration and control of a wide range of devices and systems to achieve some level of convenience and energy savings, KNX is the only worldwide standard for home and building controls. As the national group for KNX in the UK, we represent the certified manufacturers, distributors, integrators and training centres who are making their mark by continually raising standards and producing some of the most impressive and innovative smart home and building projects in the industry. Being experts in the KNX worldwide standard makes it easy for them to do that. This is how...
and EN ISO22510) and Chinese Standard (GB/T 20965). Products that work using the KNX language are made by different manufacturers and can be combined, the KNX trademark logo guaranteeing their interworking and interoperability. All electrical equipment in the building, such as lighting, HVAC, shading, security systems and AV
Smart home ecosystem KNX is approved as an International Standard (ISO/IEC 14543–3) as well as a European Standard (CENELEC EN50090
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systems can be controlled via one common language, across wired or wireless communication making it suitable for both new and retrofit installations. KNX should be seen as a smart home ecosystem, bringing everything together and allowing all devices to communicate in a common language via a data bus cable, RF or the internet at the backbone. Freedom of choice More than 8,000 devices from 500 different manufacturers use KNX technologies and are directly compatible with each other and many more via a gateway. This means that whatever your specification, budget, family lifestyle, needs or interior design style - there is a solution to be found using products that speak the KNX language. KNX UK manufacturing members alone represent a broad spectrum of products that have been labelled with the KNX trademark;