Crestron launches NFC home automation solution NFCW [Video]

The company’s new AirConnect platform enables customers to use an NFC phone to trigger personal settings on a room-by-room basis for lighting, temperature, window blinds, entertainment systems and more.

Home and office automation supplier Crestron has unveiled an NFC-based home automation system at the Cedia Expo in Indianapolis.

Creston’s new AirConnect technology uses NFC tags to enable customers to use their Android phone to trigger personal settings on a room-by-room basis for lighting, temperature, window blinds, entertainment systems or any other devices connected to the control system.

“The paper-thin tags, approximately one square inch in size, can easily be embedded in convenient and multiple locations, such as behind wall keypads and faceplates,” Creston explains. “Crestron AirConnect also makes it possible to instantaneously know who a user is, where they are, the device they are interacting with, and take automatic action accordingly, opening up a wide array of options in personalised control that were not previously …