Salt Lake City, UT – Control4 Corporation (NASDAQ: CTRL), a leading global provider of smart home solutions, today announced the opening of new international training centers in Germany and Australia, and the expansion of existing training facilities in Salt Lake City, UT and Chicago, IL. The new facilities, along with the extra capacity added to existing Control4 training centers in the United States and Shanghai, China earlier this year, will serve to meet the growing demand by Control4 dealers to train more technicians to become Control4-certified integrators.
“Interest in Control4 is growing in markets throughout the world. We are expanding our technical classroom capacity and online training materials so that authorized Control4 dealers can increase their technical expertise and required staffing to meet local installation and service demands,” said Rus Rasmussen, Director of Training. “With our new and expanded hands-on classroom facilities, we expect to train more than 110 technicians each week, over 5,000 each year, around the world.”
Control4® Automation Programmer Certification is a four-day course with a certification exam, and provides attending technicians the practical skills and methods to install and program a Control4 installation, including audio/video entertainment, lighting, security, and comfort solutions. Control4 Automation Programmer is a service benefit provided by Control4 to all authorized Control4 dealers at no tuition cost to the dealer or technician. Control4’s hands-on training classes are available for enrollment in Australia, China, England, Germany, India, and in three locations in the United States.
New facilities:
Salt Lake City, UT (additional training classroom): 16 seats, beginning August 1, 2016
Frankfurt, Germany: 10 seats, opened first week of July 2016
Melbourne, Australia: 12 seats, beginning August 15, 2016
Existing facilities:
Salt Lake City, UT (existing training classroom): 18 seats
Chicago, IL: 12 seats, expanding to 16 seats in early fall 2016
Charlotte, NC: 12 seats, remodeled in April 2016
Shanghai, China: expanded from 9 seats to 12 seats in January 2016
York, England: 12 seats
Bangalore, India: 10 seats
To register for the hands-on Control4 Automation Programmer course, dealers can sign into the Control4 dealer portal, select Technical Training, and sign up. (Note: successful completion of the online Associate Installer course is a required prerequisite to classroom training enrollment.)
Dr. Rasmussen added, “From our introductory and advanced online courses, to our newest Smart Skills videos and expanded hands-on technical training centers, Control4 is committed to advancing the careers of Control4 smart-home professionals through worldwide access to rigorously designed technical training materials and classes.”
For more information on Control4 visit www.control4.com.
About Control4
Control4 [NASDAQ: CTRL] is a leading provider of home automation systems , offering personalized control of lighting, music, video, comfort, security, communications, and more into a unified smart home system that enhances the daily lives of its consumers. Control4 recently expanded its offerings to include an industry-leading suite of advanced networking and power management solutions that include cloud-based network management and monitoring for the connected home and business. Today, every home and business needs automation horsepower and a high-performance network to manage the increasing number of connected devices. The Control4 platform interoperates with more than 9,500 third-party consumer electronics products, ensuring an ever-expanding ecosystem of devices will work together. Control4 is now available in 91 countries. Leveraging a distribution channel that includes over 3,600 custom integrators, retailers, and distributors authorized to sell the full-line of Control4 products, with over 1,200 additional dealers and distributors that are authorized to sell our Pakedge branded networking solutions only, Control4 is delivering intelligent solutions for consumers, major consumer electronics companies, hotels, and businesses around the world.
