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Consumer Electronics Daily News Saturday, January 7, 2017 2 4 NEW HOMES WILL COME WITH AUTOMATION & 30 PERCENT LOWER ELECTRICITY BILLS Allterco Robotics started the global sales of a new series of home automation devices. It is called Shelly Pro and includes the products Shelly 4 Pro and Shelly Light Pro. These are the two newest company's home solutions, which are energy-saving and can transform any new house into a smart home. The two smart gadgets have integrated WiFi mod- ule and give the home owner the oppor- tunity to manage all electrical appliances via their mobile phone from anywhere in the world. Thanks to the Shelly Pro smart series, now every builder and investor will be able to offer to future home own- ers a smart flat and the opportunity to manage it via the internet. "The experi- ments we carried out show that such a flat lowers the electricity consumption and increases significantly home com- fort. At the same time the investment for installation is only 150 euro per premise. Our experts are ready to help any builder with training and project design if he is interested in selling smart homes and to be one step ahead of others," commented Dimitar Dimitrov, Chief Executive Officer of Allterco Robotics. Optimize Smartly The Shelly Pro series allows builders to offer automation of new or renovated homes without increasing the investment in electricаl wiring. In addition, the series needs 20 percent less cables for the home wiring. The device Shelly 4 Pro is designed to manage electrical appliances and sockets, and Shelly Pro Light – to man- age lighting, as it makes possible not only the remote switching of lights via smartphone but also dimming. The two devices are mounted into the switchboard and allow four electrical circuits to be managed, each one with consumption up to 2300W. The Shelly Pro series gives the consumer informa- tion in real time for the electricity con- sumption and thus allows him to opti- mize it. The two products have a 1.8-inch color display, where users can see the sta- tus of every household electrical appli- ance and information about its consump- tion. Solution for Every Home By installing only one Shelly Pro in the home circuit, the consumers will be able to manage via their mobile phone the lighting in four rooms or the same number electrical appliances, which most often is absolutely enough for a two-room flat. For this purpose, Allterco Robotics has also developed a special mobile app. It provides the opportunity to create different scenar- ios to be performed under certain cir- cumstances. "In addition, we haven't forgotten about already built homes – if the owner doesn't want to change the home wiring, he can use the relays Shelly 2 which are the smallest ones in the world and can fit into an ordinary console behind a switch key or a power socket. They can operate two electrical circuits – 1.8 kW each, and they also display the consumption in real time," explained Dimitar Dimitrov. Voice Commands At CES 2017, Allterco Robotics is also showing for the first time a unique func- tion of its home automation solutions: Shelly and Shelly Pro – the option for their voice management via the popular home assistants Amazon Echo and Google Home. With this function, you will be able to say "turn off the lights" or "turn on the stove" and Shelly will do it. About Allterco The Allterco Holding is a leader in the telecommunications sector in Eastern Europe with more than 15 years of experience in the segment of mobile value added services (MVAS). The company is with 100 percent Bulgarian ownership, more than 100 employees, offices in Bulgaria, Romania, Macedonia, Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand and the United States, and offers its services and products in 10 other countries. The holding includes 12 companies. Terra Communications and Terravoice are leading companies in the field of telecommunication services with added value, mobile marketing, SMS promo- tions and SMS games in Bulgaria. Allterco Robotics is a company for inno- vative IT solutions. Most products of the companies in the group of Allterco are developed and maintained by the Bulgarian office of the holding. For more information, visit www .allterco.com. ANALOGIX & MEDIATEK COLLABORATE ON DISPLAYPORT TECHNOLOGY Analogix Semiconductor, Inc. announced its collaboration with MediaTek Inc., combining MediaTek's advanced, fea- ture-rich System-on-Chip (SoC) and Analogix's DisplayPortTM technology for best-in- class multimedia solutions. "Analogix is excited to combine our industry's most proven DisplayPort tech- nology with MediaTek's best-in-class display processing," said Michael Ching, Vice President for Analogix. "There is an ever-expanding range of products and applications that require high-perform- ance video out, best delivered using DisplayPort." Analogix offers a wide variety of integrated circuits (ICs) and intellectual property (IP) core solutions with support for VESA's DisplayPort standard up to the latest version DisplayPort 1.4 provid- ing: high-performance video and audio for resolutions up to 8K; Display Stream Compression (DSC 1.2) for interopera- ble, visually lossless compression over display links; High Definition Content Protection (HDCP 2.2) for an enhanced resolution, frame-rate and digital rights management that content providers require. The Analogix DisplayPort technology has shipped into over one billion System-on- Chip (SoC) solutions for multiple appli- cations, from mobile devices and head- mounted- displays, to monitors, HDTVs and media players. About Analogix Semiconductor Analogix Semiconductor, Inc. designs and manufactures semiconductors for the digital multimedia market, from portable devices such as smartphones to high-end graphics cards and large, high- definition displays. Analogix is the mar- ket leader in providing end- to-end interface connectivity semiconductor solutions for DisplayPort, including the SlimPort branded products, and an industry leader in mobile display con- trollers, such as low-power, high-speed timing controller solutions. The DisplayPort standard is an innovative, packetized digital interface for high-res- olution video and audio that was devel- oped by the Video Electronics Standards Association (VESA). SlimPort branded products are compliant with DisplayPort, Mobility DisplayPort (MyDP), and DisplayPort Alt Mode over the USB Type-C connector. For more information, visit www.analogix.com and www.slimport.com.