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Lutron Adds Integration
Capabilities to Caséta
Wireless
C
oopersburg, Pa.-based Lutron Electronics unveiled several key
developments during last month’s 2017 Consumer Electronics Show
(CES) in Las Vegas. The following systems will now have connectivity:
Furniture
Samsung SmartThingsM — with the Logitech Pop Home
Early this year, Caséta Wireless Switch.
Demand on customers will be able to connect
its system dimmers and Lutron Wink Hub 2 – Caséta Wireless
Serena Shades to the Samsung has integrated with Wink Hub 2
the Rise
SmartThingsM app, providing
through Lutron’s Clear Connect
the option of control and wireless protocol built into the
for 2017
convenience for a more complete next generation hub.
smart home.
Hunter® Fans – Homeowners
Nest Cam — By leveraging can now can easily control
“W
the intelligence of Nest’s person their HomeKit-enabled Hunter e are forecasting 2017 as
alerts, Caséta Wireless dimmers Symphony and Signal ceiling fans the best year in the decade
and switches can now turn on to a preferred se ing or scene for the furniture industry,”
when a person is detected by with Caséta Wireless through the says Jerry Epperson, Partner with Mann,
Nest Cam Indoor or Outdoor to Lutron app or convenient voice Armistead, & Epperson, Ltd. Investment
add increased security.
control.
Bankers and Advisors, and publisher of the
monthly Furnishings Digest newsle er.
Apple® HomeKit – Lutron’s Sonos® – Caséta Wireless has Kyle Johansen, Executive Director of Mer-
Caséta Wireless system supports added an integration capability chandising at HOM Furniture, with 15 stores
Apple HomeKit, enabling home- to Sonos with the launch of the in the Midwest, shared Epperson’s optimism.
owners to control their Lutron Pico Remote for Audio, changing “We anticipate growth on a same store basis
dimmers and systems using Siri the way people listen to music at of 3-4% in the new year,” he notes.
on their iPhone® or iPad®.
home.
“By all normal indicators like interest rates,
in ation rates, housing, and the market, we’re
Amazon Alexa – Following its ELV+ Dimmer – The Caséta in good shape,” comments Ken Smith, Audit
integration with Amazon Alexa Wireless product line has expand- Partner with Smith Leonard Accountants
last year, Alexa can now control ed to include the ELV+ dimmer,
and Consultants and publisher of Furniture
lighting, shading, and tempera- a phase-selectable dimmer that Insights. “Consumer con dence climbed
ture scenes with Caséta Wireless, simpli es light bulb compatibility.
a er the election and a recent University
RadioRA 2 and HomeWorks QS, of Michigan survey indicated nearly half of
making it easy for homeowners
all consumers expected good times in the
to set a scene by simply saying, economy as a whole in the year ahead.” A
“Alexa, Good Morning.”
recent edition of Furniture Insights included
results from a survey of residential furniture
Logitech® Pop Home Switch – manufacturers and distributors that showed
Everyone in the family can trigger orders up 14% in September 2016 over
actions and adjust Caséta Wire- September 2015, a double-digit increase
less dimmers and Serena Shades
that bodes well for the months ahead.
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