Crestron, Lutron Integrate Smart Home Controls

Two major smart home manufacturers are integrating with each other's products. Lutron lighting and shading control products will integrate with iOS and Android apps and with Crestron Home touch screens. Crestron software will automatically detect Lutron hardware on the customer’s network. That will help audiovisual dealers “deliver the best user experience” to clients, “regardless of what brand of lighting controls and shades are installed,” said John Clancy, Lutron vice president-residential. "Crestron and Lutron products are used together so often." It's “great news for integrators,” said Chief Operating Officer Franklin Karp of Audio Video Systems in Plainview, New York, in an email to us Monday.