Sigma Designs Launches Z-Wave Smart Home Maker Challenge
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Sigma Designs and Make: Debut Smart Home Design Mission at World Maker Faire
2017 in New York Celebrating Maker Community Creativity, Collaboration and
Inspiring Z-Wave App Design
FREMONT, Calif., Sept. 19, 2017 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Sigma
Designs® (NASDAQ:SIGM), a leading provider of intelligent system-on-chip (SoC)
solutions for Connected Smart TV platforms and Smart home IoT, and Make:, leader
of the Maker movement and producer of the popular Maker Faire events, today
announces a smart home Z-Wave app design contest for Makers and Developers.
Sigma Designs launches the Z-Wave Smart Home Maker Challenge today in
cooperation with Make: and in unison with the flag-ship World Maker Faire that
takes place in New York City September 23-24th. The smart home design
competition will be hosted on the all-new Maker Share community platform where
participants will have the opportunity to submit their idea for a smart home
application that would turn their dream smart home experience into reality.
Finalists from the idea round will receive a free Raspberry Pi equipped with
the Z-Wave Developers Kit (a $130 USD Value) and their choice of one Z-Wave
Certified device supplied by secondary sponsor Zwaveproducts.com to build their
application and submit it for judging.
The grand-prize for the competition is a hosted trip to the Consumer Electronics
Show (CES) in Las Vegas, January 9-12, 2018, along with a chance to showcase the
smart home project in the Z-Wave Alliance Smart Home Pavilion. The second-place
winner will receive Z-Wave devices worth $2,000 USD and the third-place winner
will receive Z-Wave devices worth $1,000 USD to build their own smart home
system.
"Sigma Designs publicly released the Z-Wave specification to grant developers
access to the full Z-Wave interoperability layer for the development of smart
home applications," said Carsten Steffensen, Moderator of the Public Z-Wave
Forum for Sigma Designs. "The Maker Community is renowned for its inventiveness
and creativity which is why we're excited to see what they come up with when
given full access to the power of Z-Wave. We're thrilled to launch this
competition and look forward to evaluating the imaginative solutions submitted
by the Maker Community."
"The entire Make: team is excited to work with Sigma Designs on the launch of
the first smart home-centric mission on the Maker Share platform," said Clair
Whitmer, the Maker Share platform manager. "Our goal at Maker Share is to
connect makers with each other and with opportunities in the community and this
is a perfect example of such an opportunity. This project will showcase the
maker community as a source for innovation for the home and technology. We're
thrilled to partner with Sigma Designs, a company deeply entrenched in the smart
home, and to launch this mission just as our Make: issue focused on the home
hits newsstands and World Maker Faire opens in New York. We welcome every new
maker and every new idea to Maker Share."
Full details regarding the competition including eligibility, restrictions,
submission deadlines, and prizes are available on the Maker Share competition
page: https://makershare.com/missions/z-wave-challenge. Participants can access
the Public Z-Wave Specification at this link: http://z-
wave.sigmadesigns.com/design-z-wave/z-wave-public-specification/.
About Sigma Designs
Sigma Designs, Inc. (NASDAQ:SIGM) is a world leader in enabling smart home
convergence. The company designs and builds the essential semiconductor
technologies that serve as the foundation for the world's leading Connected
Smart TV platforms, and Internet of Things (IoT) for smart home devices. For
more information about Sigma Designs, please visit www.sigmadesigns.com.
About Z-Wave
Z-Wave technology is an open internationally recognized ITU standard (G.9959).
It is the leading wireless home control technology in the market today, with
over 2100 certified interoperable products worldwide. Represented by the Z-Wave
Alliance, and supported by more than 600 companies around the world, the
standard is a key enabler of smart living solutions for home safety and
security, energy, hospitality, office and light commercial applications.
Z-Wave® is a registered trademark of Sigma Designs and its subsidiaries in the
United States and other countries.
About MAKE:
Make: is a global platform for connecting makers with each other, with products
and services, and with our partners. Through media, events, and products, Make:
serves a growing community of makers who bring a DIY mindset to technology.
Whether as hobbyists or professionals, makers are creative, resourceful, and
curious, developing projects that demonstrate how they can interact with the
world around them. The launch of Make: magazine in 2005, followed by Maker Faire
in 2006, jumpstarted a worldwide Maker Movement, which is transforming
innovation, culture and education. Headquartered in San Francisco, the Make:
brand caters to a universe of more than 25 million makers collectively across
its properties.
Forward Looking Statement
This press release contains forward-looking statements within the meaning of
Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933 and Section 21E of the Securities
Exchange Act of 1934, including statements about the benefits of the use of Z-
Wave in product offerings, including the benefits of certain enhanced features
of Z-Wave devices. Actual results may vary materially due to a number of factors
including, but not limited to, consumer and customer acceptance of the Z-Wave
technology in the relevant regions, the ability of the Z-Wave technology to
compete with other technologies or related products in the market, if any, as
well as other risks that are detailed from time to time in our reports to the
Securities and Exchange Commission, including reports made on Form 10-Q. Readers
are cautioned not to place undue reliance on these forward- looking statements,
which speak only as of the date hereof. We undertake no obligation to publicly
release or otherwise disclose the result of any revision to these forward-
looking statements that may be made as a result of events or circumstances after
the date hereof or to reflect the occurrence of unanticipated events.
Press Contacts:
Mary Miller
Sigma Designs
+1-510-897-1069
Mary_Miller(at)sigmadesigns.com
Alexandra Crabb
Caster Communications
+1-401-792-7080
alex(at)castercomm.com
This announcement is distributed by Nasdaq Corporate Solutions on behalf of Nasdaq Corporate Solutions clients.
The issuer of this announcement warrants that they are solely responsible for the content, accuracy and originality of the information contained therein.
Source: Sigma Designs, Inc. via GlobeNewswire
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