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airremote launches its integrated remote control application for iPhone and iPod Touch (17/6/2008)

Stand H1, CEDIA UK Expo 2008

airremote is launching at CEDIA UK Expo - at the Excel centre London, 24th-26th June 2008.

If you’re bored with the fleet of remote controls on your coffee table, you may have considered an “all-in-one” device. People sometimes think that the purpose of these units is to put all the buttons from the other controllers onto a single handset. In fact, the main benefit is to simplify the one control you use, in order that the main functions are easily understandable and accessible, and so you can operate things logically - for example, it allows you to turn everything on and off easily with the push of a single button.

Who better to produce a simple, reliable, beautifully made remote control than Apple®?

airremote has produced an inexpensive application that turns any iPod® Touch or iPhone™ (including iPhone™ 3G) into the simplest, most robust, universal remote control you’ll ever own. We’ve kept the things you love and simplified those things that benefit from a cleaner approach. This means that your satellite TV remote control looks and works just like the one you use right now, but other devices now have a clean, intuitive, Apple®-like interface. If you can use an iPod® you’ll want to use an airremote.

Features:

• you can use airremote to operate your satellite receiver, TV, DVD player & iTunes as a simple all-in-one remote control.
• airremote can also be used as part of an AMX® or Crestron® control system as a simple, inexpensive handset - for secondary rooms or where you have more basic user requirements.
• airremote offer full control of Lutron™ lighting & blind control - and other home control products, such as media libraries, for when you need more functionality.
• benefit from the fantastic Apple® build quality and the familiar, robust, upgradeable iTunes® interface.
• airremote is working with manufacturers worldwide to bring you the most comprehensive selection of fully-tested controllable equipment. Monthly updates allow you to add what you need.
• uses Apple's intuitive gesture control in place of hard buttons for volume and channel changing

If you download airremote from the iTunes® App Store you can use it directly with a simple music and TV set-up, with no programming whatsoever. You install a simple interface unit by connecting it to your network and the mains. This unit communicates with your equipment using iR emitters - small “flasher” units about the size of a pea. They attach neatly to your TV, set-top box etc. and relay the commands to the infra-red receivers that your normal remote control talks to. The software lets you choose what kit you want to control, and how you want to use it.

If you use an AMX® or Crestron® system you’ll appreciate how a single remote control can make a really big difference. airremote offers the same thing - a reliable, two-way touchscreen control, but with the familiar Apple® user interface.

airremote communicates with the existing control set-up, without interfering with the operation of any other elements of that system. All the control commands are handled by the AMX® or Crestron® system as normal, and the airremote operates over IP using the existing wireless network. Your installer will configure and programme your system to support airremote.

airremote is available from the iTunes® App Store and custom installation specialists worldwide from July 2008. The “standalone” solution will cost around £100. Prices from custom installation specialists will vary.

www.airremote.com