Key Digital Releases Compass Control®: The first fully integrated control system to use Apple's iOS 5 devices

MOUNT VERNON, N.Y., Aug. 8, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- The Experts in Digital Video Technology and Solutions is excited to reveal that it has developed its first comprehensive control system called Compass Control^®.  Compass Control^® represents the first fully integrated major control system built from the ground up to use Apple's iOS 5 devices – iPad^®, iPhone^®, and iPod touch^® – as its backbone.

Key Digital^® in conjunction with Compass Control's Compass Alliance Partners (CAP) has created a fully integrated control system with driver support for hardware from the following brands: Aprilaire, Boston Acoustics^®, ClearOne^®, Denon, Furman, ICRealtime Security Solutions^®, iPort^®, Key Digital, LG, Lutron^®, Luxul, Marantz^®, MechoSystems, Onkyo^®, Panamax, Primeview, Russound^®, SurgeX, and Wolfvision^®.  Combining the knowledge and expertise from the different CAP brands has allowed Compass Control® to develop into a complete turnkey residential or commercial control solution.

Compass Control^® has the ability to control devices via RS-232, IR, or via TCP/IP.  This new control system provides installers with bi-directional IR, two-way RS-232 with feedback, and two-way TCP/IP control for unlimited flexibility and maximum compatibility with new or existing devices.  Compass Control® also provides control via relays and sensors demonstrating its nature as a powerful integration tool.  When programming the system via the Compass Navigator^® PC editor software, installers are given three separate database managers to make programming faster than traditional control systems.  Compass Navigator^® also enables installers to edit command code sets which allows Compass Control^® to be tailored to each and every system installation.

Key Digital Vice-President for Sales, Michael Lakhter, commented on Compass Control's readiness to take on market challenges, "With the combined efforts of all of our Compass Alliance Partners, Compass Control^® represents the culmination of our efforts to create the most powerful, most user-friendly, and most comprehensive control system available on the market today."

Come see today why Key Digital^® and CAP are the Experts in Digital Video Technology and Solutions.  For more information please visit or http://www.keydigital.com. For more information on Compass Control^® please visit http://keydigital.com/compass. Key Digital^® will be displaying Compass Control^® at CEDIA 2012 – for more information click here or visit us at Booth #2046.  Also please download the Compass Control^® demo app by clicking here.  

Industry Leadership: Mike Tsinberg, Founder and President of Key Digital, is a holder of 40 HDTV patents.

• SMPTE fellow
• Participated with Emmy Award Winner for DVD technology development
• "Father of DVD" - Developed architecture and system software for world first Digital Video Disk (DVD) MPEG2 based authoring system - key DVD enabling technology

Key Digital^® Systems is a CES award-winning developer and manufacturer of leading-edge technology for HDTV applications, delivering total video systems solutions. The company manufactures a wide range of digital video processing and video signal distribution solutions marketed broadly to the HDTV community, such as digital video and audio processors, switchers, distribution amplifiers, cables, adapters, and more. For more information, visit us at www.keydigital.com.

SOURCE Key Digital Systems