Vantage’s Design Center 4.8 Update Adds Voice Control Capability to Control Vantage InFusion System Through Amazon Alexa for Greater Flexibility and Operability
CARLSBAD, Calif. — March 28, 2024 — Legrand’s Vantage Lighting Controls today announced Vantage Voice. Vantage Voice adds voice control capability to the Vantage InFusionTM System controller through Amazon Alexa and is now available in the Design Center 4.8 software update.
“Many homes are already equipped with Alexa devices and enjoy the option of voice control,” said Richard Laliberty, Product Marketing Manager, Shading and Residential Controls, Legrand North America. “As we continue our mission to provide lighting designers and integrators with freedom of design, adding voice control is a natural extension of Vantage’s capabilities. Voice diversifies Vantage’s control possibilities and expands interoperability, joining the already wide possibilities for lighting control through Vantage keypads and touchscreens, as well as apps and third-party control systems and keypads.”
With Vantage Voice, customers can enjoy the convenience of using just their voice to control the Vantage InFusion system — a powerful home automation controller and the main brain of a Vantage system — through Amazon Alexa. Vantage Voice can easily control up to 60 Vantage tasks, and features widespread compatibility, working with IC-II, IC-DIN-II, or IC-DIN-II-LITE InFusion Controllers, and with Amazon Echo devices and Alexa iOS or Android apps.
Available in Design Center 4.8 and up, Vantage Voice provides voice execution of a scene. It simulates a button press to trigger and execute a task. Within the Alexa app, integrators can simplify Alexa scene commands by creating a Routine and group together multiple actions, ensuring that each one doesn’t need to be requested individually. Other features include the ability to add/remove scenes to a room or device group and customize command prompts.
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Legrand is the global specialist in electrical and digital building infrastructures. Its comprehensive offering of solutions for commercial, industrial, and residential markets makes it a benchmark for customers worldwide. The Group harnesses technological and societal trends with lasting impacts on buildings with the purpose of improving lives by transforming the spaces where people live, work, and meet with electrical, digital infrastructures, and connected solutions that are simple, innovative, and sustainable. Drawing on an approach that involves all teams and stakeholders, Legrand is pursuing its strategy of profitable and responsible growth driven by acquisitions and innovation, with a steady flow of new offerings — including products with enhanced value in use (faster-expanding segments: data centers, connected offerings and energy efficiency programs). Legrand reported sales of €8.0 billion in 2022. The company is listed on Euronext Paris and is notably a component stock of the CAC 40 and CAC 40 ESG indexes. (code ISIN FR0010307819). www.legrand.us