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New BeoLink Gateway from
Bang & Olufsen makes home
automation easier than ever
The new BeoLink Gateway is the easiest way on the market to integrate
music and video throughout the automated home. Connection between
Bang & Olufsen’s BeoLink system and dedicated home automation systems
is simple and seamless, so premium listening and viewing experiences are
readily available wherever you want them. But BeoLink Gateway integrates
much more than Bang & Olufsen products. Designed with custom installers
in mind, the new Real-Time Configuration platform is the simplest way yet
to control the entire home’s automated functions. A unique user interface
auto-configures itself on the fly, radically reducing all the complex
programming tasks that used to be required to integrate dozens of
disparate systems.
Struer, Denmark 4 February 2014
Every once in a while, an innovative product has the power to change the
way we live. One case in point is the new BeoLink Gateway, which
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introduces a truly different way to integrate the intelligent home. With
BeoLink Gateway and Real-Time Configuration programming platform,
Bang & Olufsen brings decades of experience in user-centric design and allnew software to custom installers and home automation systems. Now,
discerning homeowners who want to integrate automated systems into
their lifestyle can control dozens of disparate devices – all from the
convenience of one Bang & Olufsen remote or app.
According to category manager Brian Bjørn Hansen, the launch of the new
BeoLink Gateway signals Bang & Olufsen’s commitment to the growing
home automation market. “Consumers want the convenience of simple
control not just for their televisions and sound systems, but for an evergrowing number of smart, connected devices,” he says. “So custom
installers – especially at the high-end – are building and retrofitting
increasingly complex systems that automate everything from audio and
video systems to lighting, security, IT networks, HVAC and window
coverings. Our new BeoLink Gateway is perfectly positioned to tame the
complexity and make home automation as simple as it is seamless.”
Great sound and video has never been easier to integrate
The new BeoLink Gateway integrates everything Bang & Olufsen has to
offer in premium listening and viewing experiences to everything else in the
automated home – all in one beguilingly simple system. The well-designed
user interface is available on a Bang & Olufsen remote, on a smart phone
or tablet with the BeoLink app, or on a third-party screen.
At first glance, BeoLink Gateway is an unassuming affair with just a few
connections: Master and Network Links that connect to Bang & Olufsen’s
own BeoLink ecosystem, and Ethernet and USB ports that connect to thirdparty control systems and devices.
You need to take a closer look at the native software powering Real-Time
Configuration to discover how BeoLink Gateway really begins to shine. At
its core, the new product is less about circuit boards more about deviceagnostic transparency, simplified programming and user-centric interfaces.
BeoLink Gateway takes industry-standard HTML5 to a whole new level, with
a groundbreaking, platform-independent UI that allows installers to simply
choose which devices they want to integrate – without worrying about all of
the coding.
Programming complexity made simple
Real-time Configuration makes it refreshingly easy to set up and integrate
a plethora of diverse devices in different rooms and zones. BeoLink
Gateway is the first product on the market that allows real-time editing and
configuration for audio, video and any other home automation options.
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Combine a string of actions across any system to create macros – or
“scenes” – that make complex tasks simple. Flick a switch to welcome the
family home with music, lights and HVAC settings. Or just tell your remote
you want to watch TV, and the system knows which curtains to draw and
which lamps to turn on. Leaving home? Power down all AV equipment, turn
on the security system and turn off all the lights with a single switch by the
garage door.
While other home automation software systems may allow some of the
same automations, none is as simple to use as Real-Time Configuration.
Hundreds of drivers for all leading home automation systems and devices
are pre-installed. The platform has effectively removed coding from the
workflow for most installations, and relies instead on resource-oriented
programming that makes adding a device to home automation as easy as
clicking on an icon. With the unique new Flick-and-Capture feature,
installers can even turn on the lamp (or curtains, coffee machine, etc.) they
want to integrate in a macro or scene, and program it into the automation
sequence live – with no waiting or coding – while a colleague is working on
programming another room or zone.
For custom installers, this means complex programming processes that
used to take days can now be completed in hours. Maintaining or upgrading
home automation systems is also much simpler.
For homeowners, this means home automation is something they don’t
need to worry about. Listening and viewing experiences in Bang & Olufsen
quality are integrated with the rest of their home’s automation, and
everything they need to know is designed into one remote or app.
BeoLink Gateway will be available at Bang & Olufsen stores worldwide later
in the spring.
For more information please contact:
Jette Nygaard, PR Consultant
Bang & Olufsen a/s
Phone: +45 9684 1122
Email: jet@bang-olufsen.dk
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Bang & Olufsen was founded in Struer, Denmark, in 1925 by Peter Bang and Svend Olufsen,
two innovative, young engineers devoted to high quality audio reproduction. Since then, the
brand has become an icon of performance and design excellence through its long-standing
craftsmanship tradition and the strongest possible commitment to high-tech research and
development.
Still at the forefront of domestic technology, Bang & Olufsen has extended its comprehensive
experience with integrated audio and video solutions for the home to other areas such as the
hospitality and automotive industries in recent years. Consequently, its current product range
epitomizes seamless media experiences in the home as well as in the car and on the move.
For more information on Bang & Olufsen, please visit www.bang-olufsen.com.
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