That headline is only half the story. Savant Systems, a home control company exhibiting here at CEDIA in Atlanta, actually has two blog-worthy products. One is its Protégé system, which uses the iPhone as its controller.
The other is an add-on to its Rosie (inspired by the Jetson's robotic maid) system, which adds what the company calls TrueImage Control with GestureTouch Navigation. TrueImage uses a touchscreen panel (pictured) that displays pictures of your varying rooms. You touch a lighting fixture on the picture, and that light turns on or off. Hold your finger on the fixture image and the light dims up or down. And the fixture on-screen shows you what the light is doing as its doing it. You move from room-to-room on the touchscreen by swiping through room images, iPhone-style. [Read more...]
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