CEDIA has announced the winners of the 2025 Smart Home Awards Americas while the industry gathered at CEDIA Expo in Denver. The event, set against the backdrop of “The Enchanting World of Smart Living,” recognized outstanding achievements in design, innovation, and technical excellence. Industry professionals celebrated those who are shaping the future of smart home technology across the Americas.
“Our entire community should feel immense pride, not only in the remarkable achievements being awarded, but in the passion and dedication that drives our industry forward,” says CEDIA Global President and CEO, Daryl Friedman. “Witnessing our members push the boundaries of what’s possible reaffirms CEDIA’s mission to inspire and connect the very best in the smart home industry.”
2025 CEDIA Awards Winners
With generous support from headline sponsor, KMB Communications, and event sponsors, Apex Technologies, Daisy, D-Tools, Kaleidescape, Leon, Lutron, Quantum Media Systems, Ring, Somfy Systems, Sonos, Torus Power, Wall-Smart, and Zenty Powered By J-Tech Digital, the evening recognized remarkable achievements — ranging from groundbreaking projects to dynamic new products and outstanding individual contributions.
The winners are as follows:
Integrator Categories
Best Home Cinema
- Winner: Cantara – The Auteur
Best Integrated Home Level I
- Winner: AKTIVA – Raskoski Home
- Honorable Mention: Smartlab – RH5
Best Integrated Home Level II
- Winner: SmartTouchUSA – River House
Best Integrated Home Level III
- Winner: Cantara – Hushed Horizon
- Honorable Mention: ETC Florida – Oceanic Oasis
Best Integrated Home Level IV
- Winner: ZIO Group, LLC – Modern Lakefront Intelligent Estate
Best Single Room Solution
- Winner: Global Wave Integration – Brentwood
Excellence in Documentation
- Winner: HAAS Home Technologies – Behind the Systems: A Documentation of Seamless Integration
- Honorable Mention: SmartTouchUSA – River House
- Honorable Mention: ZIO Group, LLC – Modern Lakefront Intelligent Estate
Excellence in Innovation
- Winner: Global Wave Integration – Brentwood
Excellence in Lighting
- Winner: DesignLab – Casa MM
- Honorable Mention: ZIO Group, LLC – Modern Lakefront Intelligent Estate
Excellence in Rack Building & Design
- Winner: ZIO Group, LLC – Modern Lakefront Intelligent Estate
Excellence in Support & Maintenance
- Winner: ETC Florida – Moving to the Future
Technology Meets Design
- Winner: DesignLab – Casa MM
Global Integrated Home
- Winner: ZIO Group, LLC – Modern Lakefront Intelligent Estate
Business Categories
Emerging Business
- Winner: Datamatix, Inc.
Excellence in Business – Integrator
- Winner: ETC Florida
Excellence in Business – Trade Supplier
- Winner: OneVision Resources
Excellence in Experience Center Innovation – Integrator
- Winner: Daisy – Millennium Systems Design – Powered by Daisy
- Honorable Mention: Daisy – Daisy Los Gatos (The Daisy Mini Mansion)
- Honorable Mention: The Premier Group – Ovation Experience Center
Excellence in Experience Centre Innovation – Trade Supplier
- Winner: IC Realtime – IC Realtime Experience Centre
Global Manufacturer Categories
Best New Hardware
- Winner: AudioControl – AudioControl Bijou 5100D
- Winner: DMF Lighting – Artafex Linear
- Winner: DMF Lighting – Artafex PhaseX
- Winner: Faradite – Motion Sensor 360 – Plaster In
- Winner: HK Lighting – ARTOAL16 Adjustable Accent Light
- Winner: madVR Labs – madVR Envy Core MK2 8K
- Winner: Marvin – Marvin Connected Home
- Winner: Murideo – Murideo STIX
- Winner: Steinway Lyngdorf – Lyngdorf FR-2 Speaker
Best New Software
- Winner: Lutron Electronics – Lutron’s Natural Light Optimization (NLO) for Roller Shades
- Winner: OneVision Resources – ProVision
Product Hall of Fame Inductees
- ADI | Snap One – WattBox
- StormAudio – StormAudio ISP Platform
- Josh.ai – Josh Micro
- Nice North America – IT-REFERENCE 20i Discrete Symmetrical Power Filter, 20 Amp (IT-REF 20I)
- Nice North America – M4315-PRO
- OneVision Resources – OneVision
- Sonos, Inc. – Sonos Amp
Individual Categories
Best Sales Representative
- Recipient: Chris Gilray, Phoenix Marketing Group LLC.
Best Newcomer
- Recipient: Hagan Kappler, Daisy
Best Technician
- Recipient: Andrew Gandini, TSP Smart Spaces
Global Individual Categories
Advocacy Volunteer of the Year
- Recipient: Paul Vivian
Certification Volunteer of the Year
- Recipient: Stuart Robertson
New Volunteer of the Year
- Recipient: Jason Adam
Standards Volunteer of the Year
- Recipient: Adam Keplinger
Volunteer of the Year
- Recipient: Nathan Holmes
Workforce Volunteer of the Year
- Recipient: Ron Callis
Fellows
- Recipient: Joe Wallace
- Recipient: Patrick Hartman
Lifetime Achievement Award
- Recipient: Anthony Grimani
The CEDIA Smart Home Awards entries were reviewed by a number of judging panels. The full list of judges can be found here. The remaining regional award ceremonies will take place in Asia Pacific on Oct. 29 and EMEA on Nov. 7.
To find out more about the Americas’ winning projects, visit cedia.org/awards.
See also: CEDIA Expo/CIX 2025 Keynote: Integrators Can Build Business Through Collaboration
