Interface Systems officially announced the addition of Brivo to its end-to-end managed access control portfolio including solution design, system integration, professional installation, ongoing maintenance and technical support. “We’re pleased to welcome Interface to our growing partner ecosystem,” said John Szczygiel, COO at Brivo. “Their nationwide reach and deep expertise serving restaurants, retail, and commercial businesses […]

URC’s latest Total Control handheld interface, the TRC-820, is now shipping. Programmable using URC’s Accelerator, the TRC-820 is designed to work with all URC System controllers, including the MRX-20 (with sophisticated onscreen display), MRX-10 and the new trend-setting MRX-8. Features include: Wi-Fi based (URC’s previous entry-level handheld Total Control interface communicated via proprietary 2.4 GHz protocol) View […]

Not long ago I was chatting with my friend Aaron Craig, owner of NT Designs, a freelance automation programming company. One of the themes in our discussion was that “plus ça change, plus c’est la même chose” (the more things change, the more they stay the same). The touchscreens that programmers are creating GUIs for […]

Mitsubishi Electric recently demonstrated a new multi-touch (MT) interface for its Seventy Series DLP cubes at ISE 2010. This interface transforms a standard multi-window display wall into an interactive workspace that can be used by several users simultaneously. The multi-touch technology, developed jointly in Sweden by Mitsubishi Electric and i3sense, uses laser sensors instead of […]