NEW TECH Smart Homes are Getting Smarter
energy efficiency, security, comfort, and wellbeing.
It’s no surprise that research companies
like IDC predict approximately 17-percent yearon
year growth between now and 2023,
resulting in some 1.6 billon smart home devices
being shipped. Staying abreast of those
developments is not getting less challenging –
but, fortunately, help is at hand.
ISE has become a popular exhibition for
anyone involved in smart/connected/
automated homes – in whatever capacity. Coowned
by CEDIA and its commercial
audiovisual counterpart AVIXA, it has become a
fixture in the calendar of every major smart
home and home entertainment company and is
an annual pilgrimage for the systems integrators
who serve the market, and for architects and
designers as well as countless end customers –
all anxious to see the latest and greatest and get
a glimpse into the future.
It’s not just about the newest bright, shiny
objects, however. ISE (February 11-14 in
Amsterdam) has also become a focal point for
education and learning in sessions designed to
equip industry participants with the knowledge
they need to achieve customer delight.
New Ways of Thinking
“ISE is the perfect destination for learning,”
O’Connor noted. “CEDIA provides an
extensive training program that is relevant to
integrators working in the smart home
technology market. Within this program, we
offer a range of business and technical training
classes that are valuable to all visitors with great
insights and advice from our global team of
experts.”
The CEDIA booth is also home to CEDIA
Talks that spark new ways of thinking about
how the smart homes business operates and the
technology breakthroughs that are on the
horizon. ISE 2020 also hosts the CEDIAproduced
one-day Cybersecurity Workshop. In
addition, this year sees the return of the Smart
Building Conference – now at the nearby Hotel
Okura on February 10 – while, on the show
floor, the Smart Building Technology Zone is
ISE in Amsterdam has become a popular exhibition
for anyone involved in smart/connected/automated
homes – in whatever capacity.
54 Residential Tech Today | Jan/Feb 2020