Smart Home Technology Conference

Home control has come a long way'from basic remote access and rule-based automation to AI-driven systems capable of understanding context, preference, and intent. In this session, Alex Capecelatro explores the technological and philosophical shift from 'smart' homes that respond to commands to intuitive environments that anticipate needs and adapt in real time. Attendees will gain insight into how advances in voice, machine learning, system architecture, and privacy-first design are shaping a new standard for intelligent living'where the home becomes a seamless extension of its inhabitants. Drawing on real-world applications and emerging trends, Alex will outline what it takes to design, deploy, and scale AI-driven home solutions that compel the clients of our industry.

Many project problems blamed on installation actually begin much earlier'in discovery, estimating, documentation, or the handoff from sales to design and production. On complex residential projects, that handoff is where client expectations, scope, assumptions, budget, design intent, and project dependencies either become clear or begin turning into downstream problems. Drawing on more than 15 years across sales, design, executive leadership, and integration-company operations, this session examines what each team must know before responsibility moves downstream. Attendees will learn how to identify incomplete handoffs, document critical assumptions, surface cross-trade dependencies, and create a clearer transition from sold concept to buildable project. The goal: fewer surprises, stronger margins, better internal accountability, and a smoother experience for the client and project team.

Residential lighting design is still dominated by the point source: the downlight, the pendant, the strip hidden in a cove. But a new category is arriving in the luxury home ' architecture that emits. Walls, ceilings, joinery, and bespoke surfaces built from pixel-addressable light open a fundamentally different design vocabulary: light as material rather than fixture. This session makes the design argument for emissive surfaces in residential spaces and gives integrators the practical grounding to deliver them. We'll explore why tunable white and colour temperature deserve to be first-class creative tools rather than afterthoughts, how generative and data-driven content keeps installations alive rather than static, and how integrators collaborate effectively with architects and interior designers when light becomes part of the building fabric. We'll close with the infrastructure realities ' data, power, and control protocols ' that separate a stunning installation from an expensive maintenance problem.

RP22 has become one of the industry's most effective sales tools, not because it tells clients what to buy, but because it helps define the experience they'll receive.

Our ISE 2025 and 2026 sessions used FEM and hybrid simulation to study modal behaviour in non-rectangular rooms, the effect of treatment, and its interaction with loudspeaker-boundary effects. Both pointed to the same gap: models describe what a room does, not what to change. Building our own optimisation tool made the reason explicit: modal and boundary-interference control are different problems. Absorbers at modal maxima shorten decay times, but response dips are cancellations, and treatment chosen on decay criteria alone can leave them untouched or deepen them. We have measured rooms where partial absorption improved the listening position while full absorption degraded it ' behaviour no single real number can express, and impedance can. We cover why; how the impedance of porous, membrane and perforated treatments is obtained; and what happens when years of studio layouts are re-examined with these tools. We demonstrate absorber design and placement, and what the model cannot do.

Audio-over-IP has quietly become the backbone of high-performance cinema audio. Immersive processors from every major vendor now hand off channels over the network rather than analogue or point-to-point digital ' yet many residential integrators still treat AoIP as a commercial-AV curiosity. This session is a practical, vendor-neutral introduction to networked audio in the private cinema: what AoIP actually is, how AES67 and Dante relate (and what "compatible" really means), and why the industry is moving this way. We'll cover the real-world benefits ' simplified cabling, easy scalability to high channel counts, and freedom in where processing lives ' alongside the things that catch installers out: switch selection, network design basics, synchronisation, and interoperability traps. Attendees leave with a plain-English mental model of AoIP and a practical checklist for their first (or next) networked cinema.