Connecting Tomorrow

You know smart home technology is definitely growing up once it gets facetime The Oprah Winfrey Show.  Control4 was featured in a segment dedicated to smart home technology that aired April 25th, 2008.  Oprah’s Home Editor and Designer Nate Berkus demonstrated a few features including IP Camera control/monitoring, an All Off button and Mulit-room music.   His demonstration definitely highlighted Control4’s ease of use.  Each of the features he showed only took a few clicks on a 10.5” Wireless Touch Screen and were pretty much instantaneous.  There were oohs and ahs when he demonstrated the IP camera feature which let him remotely control an IP camera that was aimed at the audience.

I know, I know, it’s a staged demonstration on tape-delay so they can make it do whatever they want.  That could be true but I’d be willing to be that it’s not.  The features they showed are available pretty much right out of the box and can be setup very quickly.  Copying the music to the controller for the audio demonstration would have taken longer than setting up the rest of the demo.

Overall it was a good demonstration and is excellent for Control4.  Also mentioned was the fact that you could start small for a little over $700 and add to the system over time which I think is the most important thing he said during the demonstration.  Smart home technology is not just for the wealthy or the technophiles anymore, it’s for everyone.  Pretty soon you won’t know how you lived without it.