Business: AVDomotics offers one-touch, automated home

Two Flagstaff brothers are helping to design the homes of the future.

Charlie and Andy White, both Flag High graduates and sons of retired Flagstaff astronomer Nat White, own AVDomotics in Sedona. The company specializes in creating home and commercial automation systems that can be controlled from a touch screen or a smart phone.

We can automate nearly anything. It just depends on what the customer wants, Andy White said.

The company has programmed everything from a security gate to the new collaborative classroom in Northern Arizona Universitys School of Communication.

The NAU classroom separates students into groups, Andy White said.

Each student has a computer, which is connected to both the universitys network and to a series of larger monitors in the room. The teacher can call up the computer screen from any computer in the room onto one of the larger screens. The students can also share screens between groups.

The NAU system is also connected to an Apple TV that allows the teacher to pull up movies, music, video and more, from iTunes or Netflicks. The device also allows a teacher or student to connect to the system with a hand-held tablet computer or smartphone and project its screen onto one of the monitors.

As many as 32 devices can connect into the system and four images can be shown at the same time on any of the computers or larger monitors. Students and teachers can also control the system through a series of touch screen tablets at each group table or at the teachers podium.

The brothers bought the company from its previous owner about six or seven years ago, Andy White said.

AVDomotics also built the high-tech theater at the new Grand Canyon National Park Visitor Center. It also designed the lighting for the Hotel Weatherfords annual Pine Cone Drop.

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Business: AVDomotics offers one-touch, automated home