iPad as a Home Automation Control system

New in-wall mount for Apple iPad

The iPad is set to revolutionise the home automation and audio visual industry. With this mounting device, the Apple iPad can be mounted within a standard plasterboard wall. It's perfectly simple interface for playing your favorite music all through your house, turning lights on or off anywhere in the home or just finding your favorite recipe online. The possibilities are endless.

Using an iPad as a in-wall controller means that the devices need no cables connected to the audio visual or home automation control system. This is perfect for homes that have no cable access. Installation time is also dramatically reduced.

This quality is normally ten times the price.

The other main factor of course is price. The iPad is available from your local apple computer shop and is less than $1000. Consider that a similar sized AMX , the most prestigious player in the home automation market, makes an in-wall touchscreen controller which comes with no software and needs to be extensively programmed which costs around $12500. What a difference! As products like these come on to the market, average homes will begin to start using his technology.

iPort, the inventor of the in-wall system for iPod, continues to innovate solutions for the custom installer with Apple products.The iPort CM-IW2000 Control Mount for iPod allows an iPad to be used as an in-wall touch panel providing continuous charging of the iPad and connection to the locally available Wi-Fi. Perfect for Sonos and C-Bus control.

So how does it work?

The CM-IW2000 securely mounts the iPad into the wall with an attractive and discreet frame which is magnetically secured to the in-wall mounting assembly. The iPad home button remains accessible while its power button is cleverly and subtly replicated on the outer edge of the CM-IW2000 frame. With this design approach, iPort has created a striking product to compliment the iPad and allow it to be installed in a room with a stunning aesthetic result.

Installed in a portrait or landscape orientation, depending upon the home-owner's application preferences, the CM-IW2000 presents the iPad in a convenient and stylish manner. Supporting a variety of downloadable applications for home automation control and common applications such as weather, stocks and news; the CM-IW2000 provides the user with control of audio, video, lighting and climate on the mounted iPad when the control application is connected to its compatible control system.

Where is it available and what does it cost?

The iPort in-wall mount for Apple iPad is availble through Connect Multimedia. Contact us on 1300 884 200 or email us by clicking This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it .