Bang & Olufsen brings the integration and control of AV devices to the IoT world at ISE 2015

Under the concept of the Internet of Things, the manufacturer of designer audiovisual systems Bang & Olufsen offers at ISE 2015 Full integration and IP control in your products, with new programming options tailored to the user.

The Danish Bang & Olufsen He has been contributing his experience in user-centered design for three decades, so that from a simple remote control you can control your own television and audio systems, as well as third-party AV peripherals, collaborating with the main developers of home automation systems.

Under this premise of taking the integration and control of systems in the domestic environment to a new level and being in line with the concept of Internet of Things (IoT), the company shows at ISE 2015 (stands 7-W170 y 7-W180) your latest solutions, focused on customer needs.

This is how Brian Bjørn Hansen explained it at the contest, responsible for custom installations of the company: “we have created a solution in which some of the largest control system manufacturers on the market, like Crestron, Control4 and Savant have been the first to fully integrate into the world of Bang & Olufsen A/V, and many more to follow. “We have updated our product range with direct IP control and these suppliers have officially supported the protocols for two-way control of our products.”.

This technological development has materialized in the BeoLink gateway, a solution that connects all the AV devices in the house with other systems (lightning, temperature, curtains, etc.) to provide an automation experience in an incredibly simple system, which has been upgraded for two-way integration that can be controlled and configured according to the user's needs via the BeoLink App directly and without the help of experts.

Added to this is that Bang & Olufsen is one of the first AV companies to have an IFTTT enabled channel in the IoT world with BeoLink Gateway, which offers intelligent and extremely flexible options for programming and connecting numerous home devices that, despite being disparate and not directly connected to each other, They have common ground in the Internet of Things.

For Bang & Olufsen, This means a business with enormous possibilities., “Assures Bjørn Hansen,” we are constantly searching for new opportunities in the growing home automation market to make life easier for our customers., and I think in some ways we are ahead of many of our competitors. Just the fact that we have a legacy of thirty years of systems integration experience, where we have perfected the design, functionality and simplicity of our products, makes our approach unique in the market”.

Bang's real-time configuration tool & Olufsen is pre-installed on hundreds of drivers and relies on a simple graphical interface to create, manage, modify and update the coding of the home automation programming of an installation.

The participation of the Danish multinational in ISE 2015 “It represents a great business opportunity.”, with a very interesting proposal for many installers present at the event. We are even thinking of opening a store dedicated to this market to establish a close business relationship with Bang's hundreds of retail partners. & Olufsen in the world to offer end customers the best of both worlds”, this manager points out.

Access the ISE Special 2015