CEDIA Names 2025 Smart Home Awards Americas Winners at Denver Ceremony
CEDIA, the Association for Smart Home Professionals, announced the winners of the 2025 Smart Home Awards Americas during a ceremony at the Colorado Convention Center, held in conjunction with CEDIA Expo.
The event, themed “The Enchanting World of Smart Living,” recognized achievements in design, innovation and technical excellence across the smart home sector.
“Our entire community should feel immense pride, not only in the remarkable achievements being awarded, but in the passion and dedication that drives our industry forward,” said CEDIA Global President and CEO Daryl Friedman. “Witnessing our members push the boundaries of what’s possible reaffirms CEDIA’s mission to inspire and connect the very best in the smart home industry.”
The awards were supported by headline sponsor KMB Communications and additional sponsors including Apex Technologies, Daisy, D-Tools, Kaleidescape, Leon, Lutron, Quantum Media Systems, Ring, Somfy Systems, Sonos, Torus Power, Wall-Smart and Zenty Powered by J-Tech Digital.
2025 Smart Home Awards Americas Winners
Integrator Categories
- Best Home Cinema: Cantara – The Auteur
- Best Integrated Home Level I: AKTIVA – Raskoski Home
- Honorable Mention: Smartlab – RH5
- Best Integrated Home Level II: SmartTouchUSA – River House
- Best Integrated Home Level III: Cantara – Hushed Horizon
- Honorable Mention: ETC Florida – Oceanic Oasis
- Best Integrated Home Level IV: ZIO Group, LLC – Modern Lakefront Intelligent Estate
- Best Single Room Solution: Global Wave Integration – Brentwood
- Excellence in Documentation: HAAS Home Technologies – Behind the Systems: A Documentation of Seamless Integration
- Honorable Mentions: SmartTouchUSA – River House; ZIO Group, LLC – Modern Lakefront Intelligent Estate
- Excellence in Innovation: Global Wave Integration – Brentwood
- Excellence in Lighting: DesignLab – Casa MM
- Honorable Mention: ZIO Group, LLC – Modern Lakefront Intelligent Estate
- Excellence in Rack Building & Design: ZIO Group, LLC – Modern Lakefront Intelligent Estate
- Excellence in Support & Maintenance: ETC Florida – Moving to the Future
- Technology Meets Design: DesignLab – Casa MM
- Global Integrated Home: ZIO Group, LLC – Modern Lakefront Intelligent Estate
Business Categories
- Emerging Business: Datamatix, Inc.
- Excellence in Business – Integrator: ETC Florida
- Excellence in Business – Trade Supplier: OneVision Resources
- Excellence in Experience Centre Innovation – Integrator: Daisy – Millennium Systems Design, Powered by Daisy
- Honorable Mentions: Daisy – Daisy Los Gatos (The Daisy Mini Mansion); The Premier Group – Ovation Experience Center
- Excellence in Experience Centre Innovation – Trade Supplier: IC Realtime – IC Realtime Experience Centre
Global Manufacturer Categories
- Best New Hardware:
- AudioControl – AudioControl Bijou 5100D
- DMF Lighting – Artafex Linear
- DMF Lighting – Artafex PhaseX
- Faradite – Motion Sensor 360 – Plaster In
- HK Lighting – ARTOAL16 Adjustable Accent Light
- madVR Labs – madVR Envy Core MK2 8K
- Marvin – Marvin Connected Home
- Murideo – Murideo STIX
- Steinway Lyngdorf – Lyngdorf FR-2 Speaker
- Best New Software:
- Lutron Electronics – Lutron’s Natural Light Optimization (NLO) for Roller Shades
- OneVision Resources – ProVision
- Product Hall of Fame:
- ADI | Snap One – WattBox
- StormAudio – StormAudio ISP Platform
- Josh.ai – Josh Micro
- Nice North America – IT-REFERENCE 20i Discrete Symmetrical Power Filter, 20 Amp (IT-REF 20I)
- Nice North America – M4315-PRO
- OneVision Resources – OneVision
- Sonos – Sonos Amp
- Individual Categories
- Best Sales Representative: Chris Gilray, Phoenix Marketing Group LLC
- Best Newcomer: Hagan Kappler, Daisy
- Best Technician: Andrew Gandini, TSP Smart Spaces
- Global Individual Categories
- Advocacy Volunteer of the Year: Paul Vivian
- Certification Volunteer of the Year: Stuart Robertson
- New Volunteer of the Year: Jason Adam
- Standards Volunteer of the Year: Adam Keplinger
- Volunteer of the Year: Nathan Holmes
- Workforce Volunteer of the Year: Ron Callis
- Fellows: Joe Wallace; Patrick Hartman
- Lifetime Achievement Award: Anthony Grimani
Judging panels comprised of industry experts reviewed all entries. The remaining regional ceremonies will take place in Asia Pacific on Oct. 29 and in EMEA on Nov. 7.
For more information and a full list of judges, visit cedia.org/awards.
