Ultamation News

Being at the forefront of invisible home technology

On the back of the CEDIA Awards 2019, a few of the winners were asked their opinions of the latest trends in the home automation industry by The Times property section; Bricks and Mortar Journalist Martina Lees.

She spoke to all three category winners of CEDIA’s Best Integrated Home and summed up that the very best technology for your home now seems to be invisible.  Many home owners strive to have the latest AV equipment and where it used to be the bigger the better, trends are now moving towards discreet.  

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Another CEDIA Best Integrated Home win!

Last Thursday, alongside Stephen Nevison of Intuitive Homes, we made our way to the Victoria and Albert Museum, the prestigious venue of this year’s CEDIA awards.

Oliver Hall, Ultamation’s  MD explains: “It’s funny how the excitement builds, slowly at first, as the awards get started until the moment your category gets announced and your heart starts racing.  Then you see the amazing shortlist and think, ‘Oh well, we did well to get this far.’  Then you have about 10 seconds of feeling a bit deflated, until they read out your name and the whole table explodes!” 

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Don't take our word for it ...

Since 2010, Ultamation are proud to have won over 10 industry awards.  Whilst we are delighted with the physical award that we receive, it means a lot more to us than just another piece of silverware in the cabinet.

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The award winning Lamina Theme

Last week, whilst in Amsterdam at ISE 2019 (the largest integration systems trade show in the world) Ultamation were delighted to collect another Crestron Award … our 5th!  This award was for Best GUI (Graphical User Interface) or in layman’s terms how our systems look and work through the touch panels.

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Crestron 2019 Winners!

 This week saw the return of the largest Custom Installation Industry trade show with ISE 2019 at the RAI in Amsterdam.  It is also the place where Crestron announce their annual award winners.  This year we entered the Best GUI (Graphical User Interface) with a video entry showcasing our "Lamina" interface design.

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#SIMPLified2LuckyDip... will you be lucky?

Since the launch of SIMPLified2 six months ago many of you have downloaded the free version.  As we're a helpful team here at Ultamation, from today we have set up a #SIMPLified2LuckyDip. When opening SIMPLified2 version 1.6 there's a chance you might unlock one of our analysers for your session.

It's simple, if you like it, let us know using #SIMPLified2LuckyDip and maybe even buy it - see our full suite here!

If you haven't heard about SIMPLified2 yet, read about it here with examples of a case study of how we use it at Ultamation Head Office or try it out for yourself here.    

 

Learning Chinese: Crestron now speaks ‘Hikvision’

Ultamation have been developing a relationship with Hikvision recently, which has allowed us to bring Crestron integration to Hikvision NVR’s (Network Video Recorders).  From reading various Crestron Programmers forums this is something that many of you have been after for quite some time, and something that no other module developers have managed to achieve.

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Why do we work with Crestron?

Back in 2007, after 15 years in corporate IT and software development and a journey that took Sony PlayStation from a fridge sized prototype to the most popular console on the planet, Oliver Hall decided to move up north and set up his own business (Ultamation).  Initially he was toying with creating our own home automation product.  After considerable ‘tinkering’ and research, coupled with a visit to the CEDIA show down in London we quickly realised there was no need for us to create our own product – there were actually various brands already out there.  And so began the process of which one best suited us, our values and which we felt would deliver the best solution for our clients. 

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