Extron Electronics
Smart Control Panels
Device Control in your Home or Office

Fill the tub from your bedside. Set the conference room lights to "presentation" mode. Turn on music throughout the house. Or just certain rooms. All with the press of a button. 

The Extron Smart Control Panels were designed to be installed in a standard electrical switch box and to integrate with a "smart" central controller. Each button controls one preset function.

This product was designed and developed from the ground up. The key design elements of the product include:

• Two different models - 8-button and 12-button
• Buttons which are custom laser-etched per installation
• Field-swappable buttons
• 4 different button sizes to let customers decide how they want to configure the button layout

A sampling of some of the elements we designed or assisted with:

• Elastomeric switch membrane
• Button design
• Button retainer
• Switch box
• Electronic PCB support and retention
• Complete looks-like, works-like, feels-like prototype
• Manufacturing database and drawings

The biggest design challenge on this project was coming up with a button retention system that could be modified during installation. Some clients might want only two large buttons per panel while others may want all eight or twelve buttons. The solution was a button cage that could be easily clipped with a pair of wire snips and buttons that could fit around the cage cross members.

More information can be found at           www.extron.com.

Note: This work was done by Sascha Retailleau while working at Speck Design.