Gentex Corporation (NASDAQ: GNTX) announces the launch of HomeLink Smart Home Solutions, at the International Builders’ Show. HomeLink Smart Home Solutions is a curated suite of smart home products all controlled and monitored by a single app. The overall goal is to help unite the worlds of car connectivity and home automation into a single ecosystem.
Gentex is a long-time supplier of electro-optical products for the global automotive, aerospace, fire protection and medical industries. It’s best known for supplying connected-car technologies and advanced electronic features that optimize driver vision and enhance driving safety.
“Over the years, we’ve been expanding HomeLink’s functionality in order to continually enhance its appeal, utility, and value to our automaker customers and end users alike,” said Gentex Chief Technology Officer Neil Boehm. “The addition of smart home and security devices to our product offering is a natural evolution of the HomeLink platform.”
Gentex’s HomeLink is the auto industry’s leading car-to-home automation system, consisting of vehicle-integrated buttons for operating garage doors, estate gates, home lighting and additional home automation devices. HomeLink is offered by automakers on hundreds of vehicle models around the world, with an estimated 110 million units on the road today.
Gentex is partnering with Alarm.com, an award-winning smart home and business security platform offering security, video, intelligent home automation, energy management and wellness solutions.
“One of the biggest pain points in setting up a smart home is getting individual devices to work together,” said Boehm. “By partnering with Alarm.com, HomeLink Smart Home Solutions will now include Alarm.com’s comprehensive suite of products.”
To further bridge the worlds of car connectivity and home automation, Gentex is developing the HomeLink Smart Home Connector, which will allow HomeLink Smart Home Solutions customers to control home automation devices from their HomeLink-equipped vehicle. Gentex plans to add the HomeLink Smart Home Connector to its HomeLink Smart Home Solutions product lineup later this year.
In addition to the launch of HomeLink Smart Home Solutions, Gentex’s International Builders’ Show (IBS) booth features an overview of the company’s commercial and residential fire protection products, including PLACE, a new line of smart home products that blends safety, comfort and security features into one sophisticated system.
The PLACE portfolio of smart-home solutions is being designed to address the nuanced safety requirements of various home spaces. The base Any Space unit is perfect for any location in the home, providing smart smoke and carbon monoxide detection and Wi-Fi connectivity for space-specific alerts. The system’s versatility is further demonstrated through specialized units for the kitchen, nursery and garage, each equipped with additional safeguards like gas and VOC detection, room-monitoring cameras, intercoms and temperature and humidity sensing.
