URC's Secret New iPad-Looking Touchscreen
By Julie Jacobson
Dedicated home automation touchscreens are not dead. URC demos a beauty at CEDIA 2011.

Just when you thought the dedicated touchscreen was dead, URC is coming out with a new one that looks a lot like an iPad but acts more like a whole-house controller.

The manufacturer of home automation and remote control systems had a prototype panel, the TKP-7000, at CEDIA Expo 2011 but wasn’t saying much about it. No ship date, no pricing.



But CE Pro did get a look at the beauty and managed to snap some video footage.

The 7-inch capacitive-touch panel is part of URC’s new Total Control line, which adds cameras, lighting control, multizone audio and energy management to URC’s rich remote-control capabilities.

The company already has an iPad app for the Total Control line, but marketing director Jon Sienkiewicz tells CE Pro there’s still room for dedicated touchscreens for home control.

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