Dirk Mommaerts, CBS product specification manager commented “This was a great surprise as we did not have a stand at the exhibition; it’s a great compliment for Somfy and for the CBS animeo LON solution. Our product was nominated by a team of experts on the Lon Mark committee and we won because of animeo Lon’s exceptional features for window and sun protection, intelligent energy savings and user-friendly controls, beating products from both TAC and Siemens. The judges praised it for helping end-users to integrate energy saving into their daily lives.

“This is a very prestigious award, and will be great for raising the profile of animeo products in 2008,” he added. “Because the range is modular, the benefits will be felt beyond the LON product, across the animeo range. People will assume rightly – that all of our products share the same qualities as this one.”

Features that make animeo LON a winner were said to be:

Intelligent switching between manual and automatic operation ensures excellent user-friendliness as well as savings in running costs; because it supports energy savings it is also valuable for climate protection. As a LonMark-certified product it is compatible with all other LON products. The motor controller controls up to four motors for Venetian blinds, roller shutters, awnings or windows individually. It used sunlight for heating as well as lighting, its easy installation saves time, It uses local push buttons as a universal LON inputs in order to save costs, and it can also be operated by radio remote control using an animeo RTS radio module.

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