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The light+building fair is the place to see thousands of KNX devices, from average- to excellent- quality, price, functionality or design. But this selection is not about the best products, it’s only a summary of the actual novelties, the real innovative stuff that can open fresh possibilities for KNX integrators and for the whole standard as such.

As we did in 2010 and 2012, we have pinpointed these novelties for your convenience and hope it will be useful for your present and future projects.

Please, have a look and come back to us if have doubts, enquires, comments or need commercial support. Also, if you find it interesting, don’t forget to share it in our Facebook, twitter, LinkedIn or Google+ accounts. Thank you in advance!


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Two years ago the manufacturer Arcus surprised us with the 3,5'' color touch display called Touch IT which had an amazing functionality and a high end finish. There was no product with similar characteristics for that price in the whole KNX market and there still isn’t anything like it.

Nevertheless, the fact of having to use an external temperature probe for the thermostat function turned out to be a major disadvantage in some projects. For this reason, Arcus in response to the needs of integrators, has redesigned the display in order to integrate a temperature sensor and named it Touch IT Smart.

After a lot of hard work, the engineers from Arcus have not only been able to integrate the IR temperature sensor in the display, but also thanks to a hardware redesign they have managed to reduce its price maintaining the same functionality (which has expanded during the last two years). This hardware redesign includes the relocation of the microSD slot in the frame making it accessible at all times, the images stored inside can be used as screensaver.

As a reminder, we list below some of the many functions that this color touch display can carry out, as well as some new features:

• 3,5’’ color touch display
• Up to 48 completely customizable functions.
• Compatible with all types of data points (from 1-bit to 14-bytes)
• Allows the use of own texts and icons.
• Integrated temperatura sensor.
• Complete thermostat function.
• RGB control.
• Alarm management module with acoustic signal.
• Week time programming editable by the final user.
• Scenes editable by the final user.
• Lines or bar graphs (requires microSD)
• Telegram log from the KNX Bus (requires microSD)
• Astronomical clock
• Logic programming via LUA language.
• Password protection of each element or page.
• Screensaver with clock, fixed image or image gallery.
• Etc.

The available colors are Aluminum, Black and White, all of them are manufactured on metal which gives them a high quality finish.

The first units will be received at the end of March, but you can now check its amazing price as well as its technical guide and application program in our web:

· Touch IT Smart Aluminium (Web code 12376)
· Touch IT Smart Black (Web code 12382)
· Touch IT Smart White (Web code 12381)

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Houseinhand is an application for KNX installation control via iOS terminals (iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch). With a friendly and intuitive interface, it allows to control installation components in a very simple way:

· Lighting/Dimming
· Blind/Shutter
· RGB
· HVAC
· Generic controllers of 1 bit and 1 byte
· Weather stations
· Scenes
· IP cameras (Mobotix and Axis)
· Technical alarms
· Audiovisual control (requires IRTrans or Global Cache)
· Etc.

If we add a very competitive price to its great functionality and excellent aesthetics we get, without no doubt, one of the most interesting Apps for KNX control via iPhone/iPad/iPod Touch.

Starting today, you can acquire your Houseinhand license in Futurasmus KNX Group. Each iOS device needs an individual license. You can find out more about the different license types in our website.

For KNX Bus communication, it requires a KNXnet/IP Gateway. Depending on the number of simultaneous connections required, we recommend one of the following gateways:

· Weinzierl IP 730: 1 connection
· Weinzierl IP BAOS 771: 5 connections

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Very few KNX components (not to mention touch screens!) are as reliable and robust as the touch displays from Spanish manufacturer Iddero. Ever since they were launched in 2009 they have provided excellent results, being the great approval among KNX professionals from many different countries their best guarantee.

Those who get to know and use them tend to plan them into all their systems. Nevertheless, both versions existing up to now (5,7” y 7”) might not be enough for homes and buildings that require a bigger size display.

That’s why, as a response to the requirements of many professionals, Iddero has presented the HC2L-KNX, with the same features as HC2, but 10,4”.

Let’s sum up its main characteristics:

- Full colour LCD display (maps, areas, menus…)
- Easy to use and to configure
- Advanced functionality: scenes, time schedules, technical alarm monitoring, presence simulation, logic functions, integrated thermostat, KNX clock, and much more.
- Integrated web server
- GSM remote control available (it requires additional module)
- Video door phone interface
- Robustness and maximum reliability
- Firmware can be updated over TCP/IP
- Well-designed and practical

Here you can download a bigger size picture to show it to your clients.

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Today, Iddero launches into the market the big sister of their first HC1-KNX touch display.

It has been named HC2-KNX and has a (15:9) panoramic display of 7". It presents as its main novelty the direct compatibility with IP video-door communications, without the need of any additional software or hardware. An extension module that allows to integrate conventional video-door communications based on the 4+N system and on the ADS digital system from Fermax will be soon available. Both the stereo speakers and the microphone come integrated in the display.

A free firmware update is expected for the beginning of next year, this will allow the visualization of IP cameras in the display.

It is also worth to mention that this display is mounted on the same 5,7" wall box as the HC1-KNX, this enables the possibility of mounting the wall box during the installation and then decide which version of the display will finally be fitted.

As the HC1-KNX, this touch display has an integrated KNX BCU, Thermostat function (requires the use of an external sensor to measure the temperature), integrated web server (compatible with mobile phone browsers), logic functions, timers, scenes, technical alarm management, time programming, presence simulation, etc.

And of course, following the same line of the previous products presented by Iddero, the price of the display is more than attractive: 1150.00€ with methacrylate frame (Web Code 10043), 1175.00€ with aluminium frame (Web Code 10044), and 1195.00€ with white crystal frame (Web Code 10045). Frames are removable and exchangeable.

Finally, to partner the launching of this new display, Iddero has significantly reduced the price of both the HC1-KNX display and the GSM expansion module.

All these prices are valid starting from today.

For further information, you can download the data sheet and instructions manual from the HC2-KNX and you can also contact us for any doubt:

HC2-KNX Datasheet

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