SmartNews October | SmartMotor +Trak-kit = Entertainment Dream Come True
October 2011
Shadi Sharokhi is blending industrial capability and aesthetic design to create every man's entertainment fantasy with the SmartMotor™ at the heart of the movement…literally. Trak-kit™ frees your high definition flat screen television from the anchored tyranny of archaic and bulky wall mounts and instead, customizable tracks mount to the ceiling and house the integrated A/V wires, components and SmartMotor servos overhead while your entertainment glides effortlessly from living room to kitchen to bedroom, or disappears completely flush into the wall. From residential penthouse suites to multinational pharmaceutical telepresence systems in boardrooms, Trak-kit trusts their high-end automation projects to the SmartMotor.
"With these applications, we couldn't afford to play around with something unreliable. We also needed a servo motor that simply sent out DC voltage with minimal cabling, because too many cables lead to artifacts in the video signal" said Shadi. "The fact that all those components sit inside the SmartMotor was also key in the buying decision. All the code stored in the motor's internal memory meant if there was power lost, all our programming wasn't lost with it."
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Trak-kit has been able to install any custom track, including tracks with the ability to move around corners and zig-zag through rooms to stop at optimal viewing positions. All two-way communications happen within the SmartMotor, allowing apps (like the iPhone as the remote control) to send simple ASCII code to the SmartMotor for operation.
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