Nice looks to the future
as it celebrates its 25th year.
Home Automation specialist Nice continues
along its path of international expansion by
acquiring Polish company FIBARO, one of
the major players worldwide in the Smart
Home sector, which offers a true wireless,
modular ecosystem for a connected,
controlled and customized building suited to
the user's specific needs.
In addition to existing lines of automatic
gates, garage doors, shutters, blinds and
access barriers, Nice will now be able
to offer a complete range of integrated
Smart Home products which are the heart
of the home and building management
system, including award winning advanced
multifunction sensors, which monitor the
indoor environment for factors such as
flooding, fumes and presence of CO, sensors
that detect whether doors and windows are
open, acoustic alarms and cameras.
It also offers innovative heat controllers that
optimize the temperature of the house and
allow significant energy savings.
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The applications for smartphones and
tablets are extraordinarily easy and intuitive,
and are available from the App Store,
Google Play and the web. Moreover, it is
possible to control FIBARO devices by voice
control, choosing among several virtual
assistants, such as Google Assistant®,
Amazon Alexa® and Apple’s Siri® which
respond to voice commands and the user's
questions, enabling the management of
lights, automation, cameras, heat controllers,
sensors and scenarios in the home.
“Nice and Fibaro are united by a drive for
innovation and digitalization, as well as by a
shared mission: to simplify the daily lives of
people by offering an extraordinary, simple,
friendly and secure user” commented Lauro
Buoro, founder and Chairman of Nice S.p.A..
“This important new deal allows us to
accelerate our growth by offering a portfolio
of the most complete products in the Home
Automation and Home Security sector, thus
strengthening our position of leadership
in world markets, characterized by the
growing demand for connected solutions
to allow consumers to have their own most
innovative Smart Home.”
The Nice Group, which has production
and distribution facilities and research
and development centers in more than
20 different countries has also recently
acquired Abode Systems, Inc., an American
company specialized in offering smart
solutions for home security and integrated
Home Automation.