Customising the Smart Home | October 2017

Introduced at CEDIA 2017, New Pakedge Certified Network Administrator (PCNA) training program forces technicians to program and live with their own networking gear – nice for Control4 dealers but awesome for the smart-home industry.

“Integrator Joe Whitaker of The Thoughtful Home, who will review the training program for CE Pro, calls it one of the highlights of CEDIA 2017, where it was announced to dealers. ‘The thought of having a training course that provides the equipment needed for hands-on training at lower-than-dealer cost is amazing,’ he tells CE Pro. ‘Pair that with the fact that this puts the gear in the hands and homes of the technicians is brilliant. Now certified techs will live with the same gear they deploy.'”