Sigma Designs and Make:
Debut Smart Home Design Mission at World Maker Faire 2017 in New York
Celebrating Maker Community Creativity, Collaboration and Inspiring
Z-Wave App Design
FREMONT, Calif., Sept 20 (Bernama-GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Sigma Designs®
(NASDAQ:SIGM), a leading provider of intelligent system-on-chip (SoC)
solutions for Connected Smart TV platforms and Smart home IoT, and
Make:, leader of the Maker movement and producer of the popular Maker
Faire events, today announces a smart home Z-Wave app design contest for
Makers and Developers.
Sigma Designs launches the Z-Wave Smart Home Maker Challenge today
in cooperation with Make: and in unison with the flag-ship World Maker
Faire that takes place in New York City September 23-24th.
The smart home design competition will be hosted on the all-new Maker
Share community platform where participants will have the opportunity to
submit their idea for a smart home application that would turn their
dream smart home experience into reality. Finalists from the idea round
will receive a free Raspberry Pi equipped with the Z-Wave Developers Kit (a $130 USD Value) and their choice of one Z-Wave Certified device supplied by secondary sponsor Zwaveproducts.com to build their application and submit it for judging.
The
grand-prize for the competition is a hosted trip to the Consumer
Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas, January 9-12, 2018, along with a
chance to showcase the smart home project in the Z-Wave Alliance Smart
Home Pavilion. The second-place winner will receive Z-Wave devices worth
$2,000 USD and the third-place winner will receive Z-Wave devices worth
$1,000 USD to build their own smart home system.
“Sigma Designs
publicly released the Z-Wave specification to grant developers access to
the full Z-Wave interoperability layer for the development of smart
home applications,” said Carsten Steffensen, Moderator of the Public
Z-Wave Forum for Sigma Designs. “The Maker Community is renowned for its
inventiveness and creativity which is why we’re excited to see what
they come up with when given full access to the power of Z-Wave. We’re
thrilled to launch this competition and look forward to evaluating the
imaginative solutions submitted by the Maker Community.”
"The
entire Make: team is excited to work with Sigma Designs on the launch of
the first smart home-centric mission on the Maker Share platform,” said
Clair Whitmer, the Maker Share platform manager. “Our goal at Maker
Share is to connect makers with each other and with opportunities in the
community and this is a perfect example of such an opportunity. This
project will showcase the maker community as a source for innovation for
the home and technology. We’re thrilled to partner with Sigma Designs, a
company deeply entrenched in the smart home, and to launch this mission
just as our Make: issue focused on the home hits newsstands and World
Maker Faire opens in New York. We welcome every new maker and every new
idea to Maker Share."
Full details regarding the competition
including eligibility, restrictions, submission deadlines, and prizes
are available on the Maker Share competition page: https://makershare.com/missions/z-wave-challenge. Participants can access the Public Z-Wave Specification at this link: http://z-wave.sigmadesigns.com/design-z-wave/z-wave-public-specification/.
About Sigma Designs
Sigma
Designs, Inc. (NASDAQ:SIGM) is a world leader in enabling smart home
convergence. The company designs and builds the essential semiconductor
technologies that serve as the foundation for the world’s leading
Connected Smart TV platforms, and Internet of Things (IoT) for smart
home devices. For more information about Sigma Designs, please visit www.sigmadesigns.com.
About Z-Wave
Z-Wave
technology is an open internationally recognized ITU standard (G.9959).
It is the leading wireless home control technology in the market today,
with over 2100 certified interoperable products worldwide. Represented
by the Z-Wave Alliance, and supported by more than 600 companies around
the world, the standard is a key enabler of smart living solutions for
home safety and security, energy, hospitality, office and light
commercial applications.
Z-Wave® is a registered trademark of Sigma Designs and its subsidiaries in the United States and other countries.
About MAKE:
Make:
is a global platform for connecting makers with each other, with
products and services, and with our partners. Through media, events, and
products, Make: serves a growing community of makers who bring a DIY
mindset to technology. Whether as hobbyists or professionals, makers are
creative, resourceful, and curious, developing projects that
demonstrate how they can interact with the world around them. The launch
of Make: magazine in 2005, followed by Maker Faire in 2006, jumpstarted
a worldwide Maker Movement, which is transforming innovation, culture
and education. Headquartered in San Francisco, the Make: brand caters to
a universe of more than 25 million makers collectively across its
properties.
Forward Looking Statement
This
press release contains forward-looking statements within the meaning of
Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933 and Section 21E of the
Securities Exchange Act of 1934, including statements about the benefits
of the use of Z-Wave in product offerings, including the benefits of
certain enhanced features of Z-Wave devices. Actual results may vary
materially due to a number of factors including, but not limited to,
consumer and customer acceptance of the Z-Wave technology in the
relevant regions, the ability of the Z-Wave technology to compete with
other technologies or related products in the market, if any, as well as
other risks that are detailed from time to time in our reports to the
Securities and Exchange Commission, including reports made on Form 10-Q.
Readers are cautioned not to place undue reliance on these forward-
looking statements, which speak only as of the date hereof. We undertake
no obligation to publicly release or otherwise disclose the result of
any revision to these forward-looking statements that may be made as a
result of events or circumstances after the date hereof or to reflect
the occurrence of unanticipated events.
Press Contacts:
Mary Miller
Sigma Designs
+1-510-897-1069
Mary_Miller@sigmadesigns.com
Alexandra Crabb
Caster Communications
+1-401-792-7080
alex@castercomm.com
SOURCE : Sigma Designs, Inc.
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