AHT Residential was a mile high at CEDIA in Denver last month…literally and figuratively. AHT was the first firm in the decade-long history of the annual Crestron Integration Awards announced at CEDIA, to win the top award in two different categories. No other firm has ever been able to accomplish that feat.
It’s not an easy award to win in just one category, let alone two. The Crestron Integration Awards spotlight projects featuring the best-of-the-best in Crestron automation technology. And this year, to make it even more challenging, Crestron received a 50% increase in entries from dealers in 18 states, plus the British Virgin Islands, Canada, Mexico, and Taiwan.
The two categories AHT won in are perhaps the most technologically significant for the future:
1. Best Smart Graphics™
2. Most Distinctive DigitalMedia™
Smart Graphics™ is Crestron’s years-in-the-making, newly released advanced graphics software platform. Software graphics are the client’s steering wheel for the automation system – how he or she touches and interacts with the system that powers the home. That AHT has been recognized as a leader in this all-important field for the future is gratifying to all our programmers who work so diligently to provide a user experience that is unequaled.
If software graphics are the steering wheel, the second award category, Digital Media™, is the powerful engine of an integrated automation system’s multimedia entertainment, video conferencing, and security. Crestron DigitalMedia™ has been the choice of the most prestigious companies, universities, military installations, and discerning homeowners. From MIT, to Dallas Cowboy Stadium, to your home, Digital Media™ is the choice for the distribution of any type of digital content throughout your home or workplace.
Best of all, DM streaming enables 2K high-definition and even 4K Ultra HD signal distribution over existing infrastructure. Often, new wire doesn’t need to be run.
Support? Crestron has a team of more than 10,000 certified engineers, designers, installers and technicians in the field every day. They’ll even fly to your job site at a moment’s notice
For AHT to win in the DigitalMedia™ category reflects technical mastery not just in the here-and-now, but also the mile-high possibilities of the future.
More photos from CEDIA EXPO 2013
