Ecuador Home

This gorgeous home in Quito, Ecuador was integrated by HomeTek, with product supplied by HAI Distributor, North York Shire.

HAI is in full control of the home, including fountains, wine cellar, security, etc.

We'll let the pictures do the talking!  Thanks for sending these in; Dealers and Distributors, feel free to send your photos so we can continue to showcase quality work and promote your company!

HAI Offices Closed Friday

HAI's offices will be closed Friday, July 3rd for the observance of the 4th of July holiday.

 

HAI Announces Clipsal Integration to be Available by August 1st

HAI has announced that it is currently working on an integration with Square D® Clipsal® for its OmniPro II and Lumina Pro controllers. This integration is expected to be available by August 1st and will be demonstrated in Booth 126 at the CEDIA EXPO Australia in Sydney, Australia on July 15-17, 2009.

Square D Clipsal is the number one brand of electrical accessories in Australia and Asia, and provides advanced lighting control for the 220/240V 50Hz market.

 

HAI Now Shipping Italian Language Product Suite

HAI has announced that it is now shipping an Italian language product suite.   It includes an Italian version of every Omni family controller and Italian versions of the OmniTouch 5.7 Touchscreen and PC Access.

Note that the portable OmniTouch 10p Touchscreen may be customized to display numerous foreign languages, including Italian.

 

Worthington U Announces Summer and Fall Classes

Worthington U, an HAI training partner, has announced a full slate of summer and fall classes.   HAI classes include HAI Omni Hands-on Training, HAI Hands-on Automation Studio and PCAccess 3.0, and HAI +Leviton, 1-day Training.

Visit Worthington U's website to register for these classes.

 

Automation Studio Webinar on Wednesday

There is an Automation Studio Webinar scheduled for Wednesday, June 24th at 2:00 PM. 

This Webinar will cover the basics about HAI's Automation Studio software, which is used to set up HAI's IP-based products.  Automation Studio is also used to customize the portable OmniTouch 10p Touchscreen, as well as the forthcoming OmniTouch 5.7e Touchscreen.

 

Bob Vila Highlights HAI Again!

Bob Vila's website has another article featuring HAI. "Green Homes Series: Home Controls"

"The rapidly evoloving home technology industry can help make your home greener by making it more energy efficient."

CEO Jay McLellan says a home often has many control components and it doesn’t cost much more to make them work together for homeowner comfort and convenience. HAI’s tools include programmable communicating thermostats that have the ability to exchange information with an electric meter to show the current cost of energy, amount of energy used and what the next utility bill will be.

HAI Adds Training Classes

HAI has added to its training schedule  on the website.  Classes are now posted through November.

HAI is now offering two new Factory trainings in its New Orleans, LA headquarters. Factory 301 is a one day class about HAI's Automation Studio software. The cost of this class is $200. There are currently six classes on the schedule, starting in July and ending in September.

Factory 302 is a one day training that covers PC Access basic programming and Advanced Lighting Control (HLC Upstart). The cost of this class is $300. There are currently three classes on the schedule, starting in July and ending in September.

If you register for Factory 301 (Automation Studio) and Factory 302 (PC Access + Advanced HLC) at the same time, the cost for both classes is $300 - a $100 discount. Note that these classes are being held on consecutive dates on 7/29-30, 8/12-13, and 9/23-24.

Positions in HAI Factory trainings are limited; consequently, call Bridgette Burch at (504) 736-9810, ext. 245 today to make your class reservations.

 

Check One Site!

Home Automation, Inc.Did you know that HAI regularly pre-releases photographs and product information on Facebook and Twitter ?  Did you know we often pass on interesting articles and links, like Bob Vila.com and Electronic House?

Did you know we do promotions and give-aways?

Read the blog stories directly on Facebook.  Read our frequent Twitter updates directly on Facebook.

Get connected with dealers, homeowners, distributors, and more.  Ask questions of the HAI staff, give opinions, and share your creative projects.

HAI would like to thank our 1,000+ "Facebook Fans" who follow HAI.

Entrenamiento Especial de HAI

HAI está ofreciendo su Capacitación de Fábrica a un precio promocional , para promover y apoyar los vuelos directos de AeroMexico a New Orleans que empiezan el 6 de julio, 2009.

Esta oferta es limitada para aquellos que cualifiquen, así que envíen su email a training@homeauto.com AHORA !!!
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HAI is offering a Specially Promotion on Training in conjunction with the upcoming Non-Stop Flights on AeroMexico to New Orleans beginning June 6.  Limited Time Offer for those who qualify, so email training@homeauto.com NOW !!!

New Featured Home from Intelligent Living in Vancouver

HAI has a new Featured Home from HAI Dealer, Intelligent Living in Vancouver, Canada.

In a recent interview with the Vancouver Courier, Troy van Vliet, principal of Tavan Construction, noted that "Every new home should have this technology. The price of installation has dropped so much, and it's user friendly. You can control everything on one pad. Realtors have always known that landscaping helps sell a house. Well, digital installation is just interior landscaping."

The 5,000 sq.ft. new construction residence in the highly coveted Shaughnessy area of Vancouver developed by Tavan Construction sold for over C$4 million in three days. The home is equipped with "Smart" lighting switches that are used for controlling and dimming lighting loads just like normal switches but they are also part of the intelligent home system. They are linked to the home security system such that certain lights can come on when motion is detected. As an energy conservation feature, the smart lights come on automatically at reduced dim levels and go off if the security system does not detect any motion for a specified period of time.

Another unique feature of this home is that the HAI smart thermostats used to control the Air Conditioning system also control the independent hot water floor heating system. This economizes on the capital cost and provides linked and adaptive intelligent control over the home's key environmental systems.

HAI Pronto Link for Philips Pronto Remotes Now Available in 16 Languages with New Additions of Arabic, Castilian, Canadian French, Chinese (Simplified), Dutch, Greek, and Turkish

Today, HAI announced new language versions for the free Pronto Link.  Pronto Link allows a homeowner to use a single Philips Pronto remote to control home theater, lights, temperature, security settings, and whole home audio systems. 

New Languages include Arabic, Castilian (European Spanish), Canadian French, Chinese (Simplified), Dutch, Greek, and Turkish language versions as a free download. 

Current foreign language versions of HAI’s Pronto Link software include Chinese (Traditional), French (European), German, Hebrew, Italian, Latin American Spanish, Portuguese, and Russian in addition to the English and English demo version.

Webinar Followup

This past Wednesday HAI conducted a Advanced Application Programming (Part IV) Webinar.  As per usual, we intended to place a recording of this Webinar on our website for dealers to view at their leisure; however, the recording failed and we have nothing to post.

 

Featured Model Home: Advanced Technologies (2009 Mark of Excellence Award Winner!)

HAI just posted a new Featured Model Home, but had too much info and great photos to fit!  Here's all the extra info:

The home was automated by Five-Star Dealer, Tom Marino of Advanced Technologies.  Tom does amazing work!  He is meticulous, observant and creative.  (We always love seeing pictures or live demonstrations of his work.)  For this, the home was awarded a coveted CEDIA Mark of Excellence - Platinum award for both Best Custom Home and Best Integrated Security Project.

The home was built by Chip Blair of Blair Construction (Neat tidbit: Chip is a direct descendent of Francis Preston Blair, the original owner of the Blair House in Washington DC, official state guest house for the President of the United States.  He is also the direct descendent of Montgomery Blair, Secretary of State under Presdient Abraham Lincoln.)

This house features extensive programming to showcase the benefits of home automation and how your home can respond to your actions or based on time.

For instance: In an emergency, the "voice" states where a fire may be located.  If the outdoor motion detector in the backyard is tripped, the "voice" announces on an outdoor speaker "You have been detected--Leave immediately." A two-minute countdown begins internally. In the event the sensor is triggered 4 more times during this countdown, the alarm triggers and announces "Burglary! Burglary! The police have been notified! " An automated call is made to the home owner. If there are no more triggers, the system resets.

Thanks to Tom for following up and providing quality pictures and information!

Send in your project to be featured on either our Featured Model Homes or our Blog!  (If the home is open to the public, we will place on the Featured Model Home webpage.  If not, we'll help you brag about it on our well-travelled blog!)

HAI Schedules Additional Webinars

HAI has scheduled several additional Webinars:

Also, note that HAI is offering an Advanced Application Programming Webinar (Part IV) on Wednesday, June 10th at 2:00 CDT.  This Webinar will consist of showing programming examples in PC Access of situations that HAI dealers have asked to be demonstrated.

 

Developer to Sell "Security Smart" Homes

A Toronto Developer, Brady Lane Homes, and an HAI dealer, Total Home Automation, are developing the first smart neighborhood in Canada.  Every townhome in the 136 unit development includes HAI technology to control temperature and lighting levels, monitor home security, smoke detection, and a water sensor to detect flooding/enhance energy management capabilities.

A Snap-Link USB key (We gave away two of these last week on Facebook!) will be used by homeowners to access their homes while on vacation, at work, etc.  (Many homeowners in this neighborhood will be using it as a second residence or weekend getaway.) Touchscreens will be used inside the homes for both messaging and control.

Total Home Automation will be offering upgrade packages which include cameras, distributed audio, and keyfobs just to name a few options.

This neighborhood is currently one of HAI's Featured Model Homes.  Follow the previous link for photos, a full listing of HAI products, and information on how you can tour.

10 Key Features in a Home Automation System

Electronic House has an article called "10 Key Features in a Home Automation System" where manufacturers and custom electronics pros reveal what’s most important in a home automation system.

Some of the key features mentioned in the article include interoperability, remote access, and expansion.  HAI Systems are used as examples several times in the article. 

Recording of Automation Studio Webinar Now Available

The recording of yesterday's Automation Studio Webinar is now available on the HAI website.

This Webinar introduced HAI's recently released IP Automation Suite, which includes the portable OmniTouch 10p Touchscreen, Home Theater Extender (HTX), and HAI Automation Studio software, which allows you to customized HAI's IP-based OmniTouch Touchscreens.

Bob Vila Profiles HAI

Bob Vila's Home Improvement website, bobvila.com, recently wrote a fantastic article about "Today's Home Security Systems".  They interviewed HAI's Thomas Pickral, Jr.

“Your security system knows your schedule,” says Thomas Pickral Jr., manager of business development for Home Automation Inc. (HAI) in New Orleans, La. “It knows where you are in the house. Generally, it doesn’t do anything with that information. But now system designers can write a computer program using information from those sensors.” For example, a program could note that the house was in ‘away’ mode and immediately set the home’s temperature higher in summer or lower in winter to save on utility bills.

 

 

HAI Camera Server

Last week HAI announced the forthcoming release of the HAI Camera Server (HAI Part Number 87A00-1). This product converts up to 4 analog surveillance camera signals, including HAI’s Indoor Dome Camera (68A01-1) and Day/Night Bullet Camera (68A02-1), to IP video streams. It has PTZ Support and one output for a camera monitor. The Camera Server supports a maximum of 640 x 480 resolution and its output is in Mjpg format.

Cameras can be viewed at home or over the Internet on a PC using the device’s built-in web server or on an HAI customizable Touchscreen, like the newly released OmniTouch 10p Touchscreen or forthcoming OmniTouch 5.7e Touchscreen.

Cameras may also be viewed on a handheld mobile device, such as PDA, Smartphone, or other device running Windows Mobile operating system, using HAI Snap-Link Mobile (1120M) or HAI WL3 (1112). Additionally, these cameras may be viewed on an iPhone™ or BlackBerry™ when HAI WL3 is used.

HAI expects to start shipping this product by July 1, 2009.