CEDIA, the trade association for home technology professionals (and co-owner of ISE), has been hosting focus groups with smart home architects and interior designers as part of its outreach programme. The overall aim is to increase dialogue between the smart-home design and build community and the home technology community, and in the process make each more aware of what the other can bring to a successful smart home technology project.
The association has worked with the Royal Institute of British Architects, the Royal Institute of the Architects of Ireland and the British Institute of Interior Design to offer a training course on Designing Integrated Future-Ready Homes that is CPD accredited by these professional bodies.