The technology touch has spread considerably in recent years, reaching millions of people through use in many areas, from mobile phones to the new tablet , the latest generation of laptops. Thanks to it, the management of everyday objects has become more simple and immediate.
This type of technology is becoming popular in the field of home automation , a term that encompasses a wider range of systems to improve the quality of life in a home, enough to make intelligent.
The Vimar Italian company , active since 1945, the leader in lighting for homes, in recent years has focused on the innovative use of touch systems for various items inside the house, from heating and air conditioning systems, management lighting and energy consumption, until the video entry , which we shall devote our attention today.
The latest product introduced by Vimar , within the product line Eikon Ages, is the Multimedia Video Touch 10 ".
Featuring a flat screen and wire frame Video Multimedia Touch combines the elegant geometry to a very good visual quality giving a perfect picture of everything that happens inside and outside the building.
Among its features: internal video recording with video lost; digital whiteboard to exchange messages in plain design, text or audio, video and audio player, calendar functions with calendar and alarm clock.
The ' interface to the Web via LAN allows also to use Internet services such as web radio, reading the weather forecast or access to newspapers in the web version.
Should be integrated with the Web Server to the DIN rail device can control your entire home automation system By-me through the supervision pages extremely easy to customize with photos of real environments that make intuitive the entire management of the house. This will make it possible to have under control by a single point to various areas of the home and for each call scenario, the automatic rule , the determination of light, view pictures sent from any IP cameras, adjust the temperature while monitoring the consumption energy housing.
The Multimedia Video Touch is available in three different finishes : white crystal diamond, black diamond and aluminum.
Another interesting and innovative product is Wide Touch proposed by Elvox , Venetian company founded in 1954, in the '70s contributed to the evolution and spread of video entry systems. In 2011, the Elvox has joined the Group Vimar .
The videophone allows navigation of Wide Touch LCD 7 ", flanked by the commands of the touchpad, backlit with LED light.
With the touch keyboard can easily handle up to 100 additional functions of the system Two Wires Elvox and 64 intercom calls , including to other devices using the same technology. Also you can customize many features of the nomenclature for total flexibility.
Wide Touch With the video door meets the new forms of communication: audio, images, videos , you can also use the screen as a blackboard , to leave messages.
Among the most important memo's Vision, which records the image of someone who has played the leads in our absence, with the possibility of leaving a voice message. With Memo Answers you can record a voice message audio for outside visitors, audible from the panel (especially useful for public offices). Family Memo allows you to record messages instead of service, or audio messages to communicate with family or colleagues. Memo Pictures also lets you use the monitor and the pen provided to leave messages written by hand.
Wide Touch also provides the installer with a great flexibility , with a menu with password protection for programming some of the main functions: association of the ID (identification code) Wide Touch directly from the monitor (without having to confirm the command by plate) and group configuration, allocation of auxiliary functions to buttons on the touchpad; ability to name differently each plate plant.
There are three versions available: built-in, table, outdoor wall.
Another important Italian company active in the production of video, as well as in anti-theft systems, is the Urmet , born in 1937.
The latest video is the hands-free soft touch Folio , a monitor which converge technology and design : a small luxury item , dedicated, high performance and attention to detail.
Result of collaboration between the Office and Technical Urmet designer Antonio Citterio, Folio is the answer for those looking for style, modern lines and materials (such as polished polycarbonate in two colors black and white) and with the concreteness of solutions up to date . These are noted in the first mode of commands: all functions are controlled by buttons and a convenient ergonomic joypad : each command is displayed through a system of graphic symbols, combined with a text description.
With these simple keys and the display, Folio is able to manage the simple functions video door but also all those typical of the 2GO! to which the monitor is dedicated.
Folio is the ideal videophone for managing the centralized answering machine (with the ability to display up to 8 movies to 7 seconds each) and communication with all users of the system (with a book of 31 names). With Folio functions become more sophisticated management of immediate, with the same ease with which you are using a mobile phone.