Crestron Joins Interesting EMerge Alliance
Crestron has become a member of the EMerge Alliance to contribute its expertise in delivering fully integrated solutions that manage and control disparate building systems intelligently and efficiently. Creating a new standard for integrating commercial building infrastructures, power, controls and a wide variety of systems on a common platform is a key mission of EMerge. The development of this new commercial technology standard will also lay the groundwork for future innovations in energy efficient and individually controllable devices, such as LED lighting.
The EMerge Alliance is new, but can be found at: http://www.emergealliance.org/en/index.asp

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