Guangzhou, China – The Guangzhou Electrical Building Technology fair is set to hold its 14th edition from 9-12 June 2017. Located in Hall 6.1 of Area A at the China Import and Export Fair Complex in Guangzhou, the fair will host over 180 industry-leading suppliers from around the world.

The fair has drawn attention from notable industry associations and enterprises. Renowned exhibitors include Auguan, Bittel, Canall, CATO, Citygrow, Crodigy, Eastsoft, EnOcean, FU YOU SIN, Gamder, HDL, Home World, Kaze, KNX, Lechao, Longsheng, LONGYANG, LUMI, Lummin, Nedfon, ONLYTECH, ORVIBO, OUCHUANGYUAN, Panasonic, povos, Power2control, Rishun, S&B, Seyoung, Szsaw, Tender, T-Touching, Vanhi, wintom, Wise, Xiaowei, zigbee alliance and more. These brands will showcase their latest technologies and solutions for the electrical engineering, intelligent building and smart home markets. The four-day event is expected to attract a diverse range of professional visitors, including system integrators, architects, designers, engineers and end-users.

Concurrent seminars gather expert speakers to share latest development trends and market intelligence
A key highlight of the 2017 fair is the full schedule of reputable events welcoming influential speakers from the industry to deliver important insights. Backed by numerous industry associations, the fair has organised more than 13 seminars evolving around two themes: intelligent building and smart home standards, and intelligent buildings, smart homes and smart hotels.

Intelligent Building and Smart Home Standards
Supported by well-known domestic and overseas standards organisations, the Guangzhou Electrical Building Technology fair will bring back popular forums on intelligent building and smart home standards to share the latest development trends. The forums aim to enhance communication between different standards and systems, as well as strengthening the integration of new technologies and Internet of Things (IoT). Participating associations and topics to be discussed include:

• Bluetooth SIG
Topic: Bluetooth - Making the Smart Home Accessible to Everyone
Bluetooth SIG and two member companies, TELINK and Dorlink will cooperate to examine how the characteristics of Bluetooth 5 facilitate smart home development. Another highlight is the presentation of compatible devices developed by HomeKit and smart lock solutions.

• EnOcean Alliance
Topic: EnOcean Batteryless Wireless Technology for Intelligent Buildings and IoT - Embracing the Internet of Things in the New Era of Cognitive Buildings
By presenting EnOcean self-powered wireless standard IEC/ISO 14543-3-1X, building professionals will illustrate how to enhance the comfort level, promote intelligentisation, drive energy saving and reduce the production cost of smart and cognitive buildings at minimum cost.

• KNX Association
Topic: KNX Technical Seminar
The seminar will offer a comprehensive overview on international communication standards for building and home control systems, as well as illustrate means to improve energy performance. Smart home and building control – which integrate the concepts of green buildings, smart grids and smart meters – will create huge development potential.

• LonMark International
Topic: LonMark International Empowers Intelligent Control Networking Solutions: New Technology Advancements for Building Automation and Smart Cities
With development of LonMark as the focus, the forum will discuss the application of building automation and smart city, which includes intelligent street lighting and other case studies.

• zigbee alliance
Topic: One Technology, A World of Choice
Through the panel discussion, industry experts will exchange information on product tests and the collision of chips and modules. Also, participants will learn how zigbee’s technology can create a more efficient, complete and people-oriented smart home.

Intelligent Building, Smart Home and Smart Hotel
Industry experts will share the latest intelligent building development and analyse the industry trends. Hot topics including IoT sentrollers, big data, cloud platform technologies, control interfaces and so on will be explored. The widespread occurrence of smart technologies has also facilitated the intelligentisation of real properties and hotels, thus the research and development of related technologies. The fair gathers professionals to comment on the future opportunities. Highlighted seminars and participating associations include:

• Beijing Information Technology Centre for Production and Research, China Smart Home Design and Custom Installation Alliance
Topic: China Wisdom Life Integrated Service Provider Forum
Industry experts are invited to discuss topics related to smart home system intergators in China.

• China Smart Home Industry Alliance (CSHIA)
Topic: China Smart Home Industry Alliance Forum
The Alliance will reveal its innovative solutions in the smart hotel sector. Apart from exploring the role played by intelligent applications on the aspects of users’ experience, sales and marketing and operational efficiency, it will also offer insights into hotel management including labour costs, operational efficiency, demand of young consumers, setting up of smart venues, application of intelligentisation and information technology such as smart hotel rooms, robots, VR and more.

• Greater China Hotel Engineer Association
Topic: Intelligent Building & Green Hotel Innovation Summit 2017
The Summit will present how the application and integration of new technologies in hotels enhance energy efficiency. Topics include intelligent building electrical, smart hotel management and green hotel innovations.

• Guangdong Designer Communication Centre, China Institute of Interior Design (CIID) Guangzhou Committee
Topic: Interior Design Goes Smart Summit
The Summit will gather remarkable designers, scholars and entrepreneurs from the smart home industry to investigate the key issues of “Interior Design Goes Smart”. From the perspective of design, it aims to facilitate the industry collaboration to seek sustainable solutions.

• Guangdong Real Estate Industrial Association
Topic: China (Guangzhou) Intelligent Building Development of Real Estate

• Intelligent Control Technology and Application Association of Shenzhen (CTA)
Topic: China Intelligent Green Community Summit

• Intelligent Engineering Branch of China Exploration & Design Association
Topic: Summit on Innovative Intelligent Building Technology Driven by Smart Cities 2017
As an emerging concept in the information era, smart city has become a new objective of urban planning. The rapid growth and widespread use of information technologies have accelerated the integration of different systems in the building industry. The Summit aims at converging different sectors to facilitate industry collaboration.

• QJ.Smartech
Topic: The Transformation of Digital Economy – The Journey of Intelligent Industry
The seminar will share insights into the blend of intelligent and traditional industries with a view to identify industry trends, capture business opportunities and generate greater sales.

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