{"id":13886,"date":"2021-08-10T05:03:23","date_gmt":"2021-08-10T05:03:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.interactiveinteriors-av.com\/newsite\/?p=13886"},"modified":"2021-08-10T05:51:38","modified_gmt":"2021-08-10T05:51:38","slug":"in-the-news-wounded-u-s-airman-gets-voice-controlled-elan-smart-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.interactiveinteriors-av.com\/newsite\/in-the-news-wounded-u-s-airman-gets-voice-controlled-elan-smart-home\/","title":{"rendered":"In the News: Wounded U.S. Airman gets Voice-Controlled ELAN Smart Home"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thanks to the robust capabilities of the ELAN Entertainment &amp; Control System, Core Brands and the Gary Sinise Foundation\u2019s RISE (Restoring Independence, Supporting Empowerment) program recently presented a smart home to a wounded U.S. airman who lost three limbs in Iraq in 2004. The new home in Miramar Beach, FL combines the advanced ELAN system with Amazon\u2019s Alexa voice-recognition technology to empower senior airman Brian Kolfage to control his home\u2019s lights, security, HVAC, audio, and video through voice commands.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<div>This voice control greatly increases Kolfage\u2019s independence at home and is helping him enjoy daily life with his family, according to integration expert Jason Stanley at Tampa, FL-based AAMI. \u201cIt\u2019s truly awe inspiring to witness the strength and perseverance of our nation\u2019s bravest citizens,\u201d Stanley said. \u201cThe team at AAMI is grateful to have donated our time and expertise to this project, and to help provide senior airman Kolfage with as much self sufficiency as possible in his home. One of the greatest feats of modern technology is to raise the standard of living for people with decreased mobility and injuries, and there\u2019s no one more deserving of that technology than wounded veterans.\u201d<\/div>\n<div>Read the full story <a href=\"http:\/\/www.residentialsystems.com\/news\/0002\/wounded-us-airman-gets-voicecontrolled-elan-smart-home\/89393\">here<\/a>.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thanks to the robust capabilities of the ELAN Entertainment &amp; Control System, Core Brands and the Gary Sinise Foundation\u2019s RISE (Restoring Independence, Supporting Empowerment) program recently presented a smart home to a wounded U.S. airman who lost three limbs in Iraq in 2004. The new home in Miramar Beach, FL combines the advanced ELAN system [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13887,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[81],"tags":[63,102,53,83,54,103],"class_list":["post-13886","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-home-automation-part","tag-automation","tag-elon","tag-home-automation-part-2","tag-home-improvement","tag-interactive-interiors","tag-voice-activated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.interactiveinteriors-av.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13886","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.interactiveinteriors-av.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.interactiveinteriors-av.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.interactiveinteriors-av.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.interactiveinteriors-av.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13886"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.interactiveinteriors-av.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13886\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13948,"href":"https:\/\/www.interactiveinteriors-av.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13886\/revisions\/13948"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.interactiveinteriors-av.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13887"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.interactiveinteriors-av.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13886"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.interactiveinteriors-av.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13886"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.interactiveinteriors-av.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13886"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}