One of our favorite events of the year recently occurred in Denver, CO. The CEDIA Expo brings together smart home technology professionals from around the world, coming together to discover the latest technology that’s transforming the industry.
This year’s event brought 14,000 attendees, 400 brands, and incredible new products designed to bring comfort, convenience, and beauty to smart home living.
Here, we’ll explore some of the top contenders—companies that are changing the landscape for integrators and their clients.
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Just Video Walls
Do you remember when 4K HDR projectors and large, life-size screens were all the rage for those embracing the home theater trend? Today, we’re finding a growing interest in video walls. One of the major players in this arena is Just Video Walls, and they just upped their game.
This innovative brand unveiled five new MicroLED solutions at the CEDIA Expo, which will undoubtedly set new industry benchmarks. Here are just a few of their standouts:
- What You See Is What You Get (WYSIWYG) Source Management Interface: The first of its kind, this interface combines layout customization and source selection into a user-friendly interface, enabling users to manage multiple sources across a custom MicroLED display.
- Contour and Ultra Slim Trims: These various trims create a refined, design-forward ultra-low profile that complements contemporary architecture. Their Ultra LED Trim features integrated LED lighting.
- Fine Pitch Indoor & Outdoor MicroLED: This pixel density enables users to enjoy an incredible viewing experience up close, in vibrant colors and crystal-clear detail.
- Collaboration with Leon: At 217 inches, Leon has created what may be the largest soundbar. This soundbar is for Just Video Wall’s massive displays, bringing together an incredible AV solution.
Rania Natural White Tape Light & Lumaris Downlights
Lutron Lighting showcased its expanding Rania and Lumaris lines. Lumaris downlights are designed for luxury homes, enabling a simple upgrade with retrofit options that significantly elevate the lighting experience. These lights offer tunable white lighting, ranging from 1800K to 4000K, which mimics natural light sources, from brilliant daylight to a warm candlelight glow.
Rania Natural White Tape Light offers seamless and sophisticated illumination, with temperatures ranging from 1800K to 5500K. This tape light creates a dynamic lighting design that provides visual accents, elevating the overall ambiance. Applications include stairs, ceiling coves, cabinets, bookshelves, and bathroom vanities.
Ketra + Coastal Source: An Impressive Duo
Coastal Source and Ketra transformed outdoor lighting when they introduced the Coastal Source Ketra-Ready fixture, a solid brass fixture that houses a high-quality Ketra LED lamp. This collaboration brought advanced, durable, and beautiful tunable full-spectrum lighting to the great outdoors.
Now, they’ve added a new VIA line of outdoor landscape fixtures, redefining what’s possible in outdoor lighting. This technology seamlessly connects outdoor and indoor spaces, aligning with homeowners’ increasing desire to extend their living spaces into their outdoor areas.
Sonance and Its Invisible Line
Sonance is recognized as the pioneer of the architectural speaker category, bringing high-fidelity music and sound throughout luxury homes via discrete in-wall and in-ceiling speakers. At the CEDIA Expo, they unveiled their latest creation, the Invisible Series IS6s.
These speakers can be painted or covered over with wood veneer, wallpaper, or leather, enabling them to disappear into the wall completely. These impressive speakers bring dynamic, full-range sound comparable to traditional speakers, despite their hidden location. The result is an immersive, high-fidelity audio experience coming from an unseen source.
Proluxe Pixel Display
Proluxe by American Lighting showcased several pixel display products at CEDIA Expo, including their High Output COB RGBTW Pixel Tape Light. This specialized LED tape light offers millions of color possibilities and dynamic effects.
The Chip On Board (COB) design allows for seamless, dot-free illumination for uniform high-quality light. Individual sections enable independent control, allowing for dynamic designs and color combinations.
DMF Lighting: Artafex Linear and Phase X Technology
The winner of the Lighting, Lighting Controls & Accessories category went to DMF Lighting’s Artafex Linear and PhaseX line. PhaseX is a digital lighting control platform that can manage up to 64 fixtures on a single gateway. It offers retrofit solutions and dimming capabilities up to 0.1% to already installed LEDs.
Artafex Linear offers architectural-grade, high-CRI, linear lighting in a half-inch profile. This lighting solution fulfills the growing demand for human-centric lighting and integrates seamlessly with other DMF lighting products. As an unseen source, it brings high-quality lighting to coves, architectural integrations, and under cabinets.
Future Automation
Future Automation, one of our favorite brands in display concealment solutions, showcased its latest advancements. These include CinemaPro, a line dedicated to home theater solutions. This line offers several options for concealed projectors, enabling today’s top-of-the-line cinema projectors to integrate seamlessly into a home theater’s design.
They also displayed smart wiring enclosures that provide an excellent solution for concealing smart home wiring. Automated cabinetry allows for motorized movement of panels and doors to hide AV equipment.
As you can see, it was a year to remember at the 2025 CEDIA Expo. To discover how to integrate these remarkable advancements into smart home living, contact Wipliance.
