Ultamation were asked to be a part of the team creating the new home of Salford Rugby League Club. The £16 million project will not only accommodate a crowd of 12,000 extending up to 20,000 over time, but also has built-in offices, player facilities, hospitality boxes, concessions, community resources, two community outdoor sports pitches and will be available for business and public hire.

Ultamation were asked by Crestron UK to provide user interface and programming services for their brand new Experience Centre in Leeds, England.  It's a great honour for Ultamation, especially given the high calibre of CAIPs and CAPs in the UK.

The open-day was held on the 1st March 2012 and dealers, interior designers, developers and select clients from around the country were invited to visit the new office and play with some of Crestron's newest products.

Just a quick News Flash for any dealers looking to integrate Crestron with Heatmiser's stellar heating control solution along with their colour TouchPad product.  We've tested the system in our lab and can confirm the solution work flawlessly.  Heatmiser have cleverly added a second RS485 bus for the Crestron control system, and when your Crestron program wants to talk to a thermostat, the TouchPad pauses its communications until the Crestron system has finished.

Not only does this provide the customer with a great central location to address the more involved configuration of their heating system, rather than adding unwanted complexity to the Crestron panels, but it also provides the installer with a great way to check their Heatmiser communications installation prior to installing and loading up the control system.

For more details on Heatmiser's TouchPad product visit www.heatmiser.co.uk

Although we haven't received a win directly in this year's Crestron Integration Awards 2011, Ultamation were responsible for the programming of not one, but two of the winning submissions.  As we were commissioned by the winning integration companies we won't give away which projects they were, but are very proud to have been partially responsible for the wins on two prestigious and high-profile projects.

It's an idiosyncrasy of the Custom Installation industry, but unfortunately many of the best projects are covered under non-disclosure which prevents us from being able to shout about them.  This is quite understandable - most of our clients are high-net-worth, private people or in the public eye and aren't really asking any more than the rest of us would in being allowed some privacy in their own homes.  Would you want the world to know where you sleep or the colour of your living room walls?

We love a bit of limelight as much as anyone, but even standing in the wings, we're delighted that two projects bearing our fingerprint have won first place this year.

Ultamation now have not one, but two fully certified Crestron Digital Media Certified Designers and Engineers.  Both members of staff completed the training at Crestron's UK Headquarters, one with an amazing 100% test score, and the other not far behind on 97%.

This certification places Ultamation out in front of the majority of Crestron dealerships, showing that we are fully conversant in all things High Definition and how it applies to Crestron's industry leading HD distribution systems.  We are able to design and install systems compliant with the HD-DTDS specification, a requirement for most high-end digital media distribution installation, and in doing so can pass on Crestron's guarantee that the completed system will handle the most technically challenging of today's video technologies including 1080p Deep Colour and 3D formats.

Ultamation have won the "Most Creative GUI" in this year's coveted Crestron Integration Awards.  In the most hotly contested of the nine categories, Ultamation's entry beat off the competition on the grounds of technical excellence married with intuitive and "funky" design.