Crestron unveiled Crestron Pyng, the app that IS the home automation system. For years, home automation apps have been add-ons to control systems that are programmed using computers. Now, technology integrators can create lifestyle scenes for each room, schedule events, and much more right from an iPad^®. The whole house can be ready in minutes without ever opening a laptop.

Rockleigh, N.J.-based Crestron rolled out its Mobile and Mobile Pro control apps, which provide systems designers and programmers with capabilities that simplify and expand the design possibilities of Crestron and Prodigy touchscreen interfaces on Apple mobile devices.