Crestron Electronics
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| Type of Company | Private |
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| Founded | (1971) |
| Headquarters | Rockleigh, NJ |
| Key people | George Feldstein, President |
| Industry | Automation and control |
| Products | Home automation |
| Revenue | 200+ Million (2005) |
| Employees | 1500+ |
| Website | www.crestron.com |
Crestron Electronics is a company that manufacturers high-end systems for home automation and conference room control. The hardware developed by Crestron includes control processors, touch panels, keypads, lighting control systems, amplifiers, and audio servers.
Crestron is headquartered at Rockleigh, New Jersey, and has satellite offices in Australia, Belgium, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Spain, and the United Kingdom. Crestron's entire development team is in Rockleigh, New Jersey.
Crestron manufactures remotes that connect to, and make use of their control systems in order to control other electronic and mechanical devices. From one of their touch screen displays or keypads you are capable of controlling your home theater, lights, air conditioning, and speakers throughout the house. The main purpose is to have a single custom built user interface for all kinds of hardware which are quite often from many different otherwise not compatible vendors. The processor range include devices with Ethernet interfaces to allow remote control using E-Control to emulate a wired touchpanel using a PC web browser.
More recently Crestron have introduced the Adagio line of products that have 'Out Of The Box Functionality' to reduce the requirement for custom programming for simple audio distribution systems.
[edit] See also
- Domotics
- Intelligent building
- home automation
- lighting control system
- Smart Environments
- room automation
- touch panel
