Smart Furniture - Smart furniture, automated with LinearDirect drives and lifting columns
Absolutely trendy: digital smart furniture
When digitally controlled furniture is transformed into a wide variety of living environments, we talk about smart furniture. Digitally controlled movable furniture and other furnishing objects have already found their way into the living environment of many users. Technical progress is no longer stopping here either. New gadgets for furniture, home and yard are launched on the market every day.
Innovative labs are programming the apps to go with them. Amazon is leading the way with Alexa. In addition to ordering products, you can now use it to control and monitor your entire home and switch the lights on or off, for example. Alexa can also move the kitchen island upwards. Alexa doesn't do this independently, but our hub drives for smart kitchen islands do. You can find a detailed report on the electrically height-adjustable kitchen here: User report on height-adjustable kitchen
Room transformation by voice command or app
Living space is becoming less and less, so it is clear that you can get as much quality of life into the smallest or limited space as possible. With electrically powered furniture, which is moved by means of lifting columns and linear drive technology, you can see true quick-change artists at work. For example, the bed automatically folds into the wall unit and the desk moves out to the side and can be used. If you want to watch TV, the flat screen automatically folds out of a piece of furniture on the ceiling, and where the dining area used to be, it sinks into the ceiling and the floor moves down to reveal a recessed seating area.
What a few years ago would have been ridiculed as a trick from popular spy movies is now state-of-the-art.
Digitalisation and progress in automation technology, as well as in CAD technology, continue to change our comfort zone. These days, ideas are bubbling up from planners and engineers as small R&D teams come up with ever more innovative approaches to stay ahead of the competition.
Symbiosis of design and technology
The respective design merges with the technology that drives the design. LinearDirect is a pioneer in this field. For more than 17 years, LinearDirect drives have been used in projects worldwide to automate furniture. Flatscreens move out of furniture, wall panels move as if by magic. Kitchen appliances move out of a base unit. Many things are possible today. Here you can find an interesting user report that we have published about TV lifts in the past: to the TV lift user report
activated with a press on the room control touch panel. Lineardirect has gained experience from more than 20,000 projects. If you want to manufacture smart furniture, Lineardirect is the right address for you.
Control smart furniture
Our drives, which automate and move smart furniture, can be operated and controlled in a variety of ways. The most popular method is control via room control. However, operation via an app or Bluetooth remote control is also available.
Operator safety
Smart furniture must be safe for the user to operate. Therefore, all smart furniture should be fitted with anti-trap strips in the clamping areas where shearing occurs. We have various anti-trap strips on offer, which you must use for the safety of smart furniture, there is also operation using a dead man's remote control. When a safety edge is used, the object is unclamped by the control unit moving it in the opposite direction. Automatic movement of the system can be risky for the distributor (furniture manufacturer) despite the anti-trap bar. This is why Lineardirect has a dead man's control or operation. The user must always be within sight of the smart furniture. By releasing the remote control, the smart furniture stops immediately in the event of danger. The drives from Linak, which you can buy from us, even have their own internal collision detection. As soon as a piece of furniture or a driven surface collides, it is recognised immediately and the drive or furniture component moves in the opposite direction and releases the object. You can set the collision detection, as well as the end positions, with millimetre precision using Linak software. If you have any questions about smart furniture, we look forward to receiving your enquiry. We will be happy to advise you in detail on all your questions.
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