Sigma Designs and Make: Debut
Smart Home Design Mission at World Maker Faire 2017 in New York
Celebrating Maker Community Creativity, Collaboration and Inspiring
Z-Wave App Design
FREMONT, Calif., Sept. 19, 2017
(GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- 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
Designs
Sigma 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-Wave
Z-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
Statement
This 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 Miller
Sigma Designs
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Mary_Miller@sigmadesigns.com
Alexandra Crabb
Caster Communications
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