Sigma Designs Launches Z-Wave Smart Home Maker Challenge
20 September 2017 - 1:00AM
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 DesignsSigma 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-WaveZ-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 StatementThis 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 MillerSigma
Designs+1-510-897-1069Mary_Miller@sigmadesigns.com
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