GUDE’s Power Distribution Units (PDUs) have been added to Technological Innovations Group’s (TIG) portfolio of residential products, allowing users to control and monitor their smart homes and devices remotely.
As an official partner of Crestron, GUDE has developed drivers that allow their IP power strips to be integrated into Crestron Home systems. The PDU drivers were developed with Crestron Master programmers at Ultamation to ensure they offer seamless control of one or multiple rooms, remotely or onsite.
GUDE’s new drivers give users the ability to use Crestron Home on their mobile device to switch on, switch off, or reboot devices such as media players, satellite boxes, or routers. It also allows them to see the current status of connected devices, receive automatic alerts in case of irregularities and also check and control their energy consumption.
There are many advantages to using a GUDE remote power switch with a Crestron Home system, including fail-safe power cycling of connected devices that helps applications to get back on their feet when they have hung up. This is either automatic via watchdog monitoring or by remote access via Crestron Home.
Users can also add sensors to the PDU to monitor temperature, humidity and air pressure, to prevent critical conditions in advance.
The IP power switches also have integrated energy meters to give precise measurement of power consumption which enables energy saving strategies to be included in the integration.
GUDE’s PDUs are now available through TIG to integrators throughout the EMEA region.