Cresskill, NJ – August 27, 2024 – Bond (CEDIA Expo 2024, booth #4109) has added Scenes functionality to its Bond Home Platform. The Bond Bridge Pro RF-to-WiFi gateway and accompanying Bond Home App (iOS and Android) bring unified, intuitive control to devices. This includes motorized indoor/outdoor shades and screens, awnings, pergola louvers, and ceiling fans, plus now outdoor landscape lighting, and heating and cooling. Scenes allow for control of these different devices at once.
Users can design Scenes that prepare for specific activities in the home with just one tap.
Previously this would have required many taps in the App to achieve.
Users can run Scenes with a single tap, schedules, or by its name with voice assistants.
Scenes also drastically reduces the popcorn effect (i.e., shades not coordinated) when controlling multiples.
“Scenes unlocks the ability to operate many devices with a single voice command, without the need to manage complex Routines,” says Bond Home Co-Founder and Chief Technology Officer Chris Merck.
“And, for select shade technologies that move together in Groups, users can now move them together with voice by including the Group in their Bond Scene, something which just wasn’t possible previously with our Alexa and Google Home integrations.”
Bond offers the Bond Bridge, Bond Bridge Pro, Sidekick for Shades, and new for 2024 are the Breeze Pro wind/rain/sun smart sensor and Firefly One LED outdoor lighting dimmer control. Scenes interacts with all these solutions and is supported by Alexa, Control4, Crestron, Savant, ELAN, and others.
See Bond’s Many Smart Solutions at CEDIA Expo 2024
- Bond (#4109)
- Progressive Screens (#738)
- Draper at Home (#3907)
- Nice (#2528)
- Coulisse (#C1312)
- Hunter Douglas (#3543)
- Infratech (#3357)
- Savant (#2519)
- SmartWings (#3949)
- WALLSMART (#4105)
- Power Shades (#1539)
- Legrand (#1506)
- Screen Innovations (#1928)
- Modern Atomics (#3520)
- Josh.ai (#2928)
- Sol-Lux (#3319)
At present there are 2,000+ home technology pro’s selling Bond solutions. Brands Screen Innovations, Draper at Home, Savant, and MagnaTrack also sell Bond.
About Bond
Bond is from Olibra, LLC, a privately-owned NJ tech company established in 2016 with a focus of making motorized window coverings, ceiling fans, and gas fireplaces simpler and more delightful to use. The Bond Bridge RF-to-WiFi platform was launched in 2018 with the Bond Bridge. This brought intuitive smartphone control to these appliances. In 2021 came the Bond Bridge Pro for CEDIA installers. This brings expanded capabilities and integration with leading home automation and virtual assistance platforms. Then 2023 brought the Sidekick for Shades Gen2 battery-powered wireless keypad. 2024 brings the Breeze Pro smart wind/rain/sunlight sensor and Firefly One Smart Controller for low voltage Outdoor Lighting. (Complete list of compatible motor, automation, and virtual assistance brands here: https://bondhome.io/supported-motorization-brands/) www.bondhome.io
