CEDIA has announced the winners of the 2025 Smart Home Awards Americas during CEDIA Expo in Denver. The program, presented under the theme “The Enchanting World of Smart Living,” recognized achievements in design, innovation, business excellence, and individual contributions across the custom integration industry.
CEDIA Global President and CEO Daryl Friedman praised the winners as reflective of the passion and dedication that define the smart home community.
“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,” Friedman said
The ceremony was emceed by Katye McGregor Bennet of headline sponsor KMB Communications, along with sponsors including 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.
Unsurprisingly, there is quite a bit of crossover between the CEDIA Awards and this year’s CE Pro Home of the Year Awards and BEST Product Awards this year.
Here are the winners of the 2025 CEDIA Awards:
Best Home Cinema – Cantara (The Auteur)
Best Integrated Home Level I – AKTIVA (Raskoski Home)
Honorable Mention: Smartlab (RH5)
Best Integrated Home Level II – SmartTouchUSA (River House)
Best Integrated Home Level III – Cantara (Hushed Horizon)
Honorable Mention: ETC Florida (Oceanic Oasis)
Best Integrated Home Level IV – ZIO Group, LLC (Modern Lakefront Intelligent Estate)
Best Single Room Solution – Global Wave Integration (Brentwood)
Excellence in Documentation – 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 – Global Wave Integration (Brentwood)
Excellence in Lighting – DesignLab (Casa MM)
Honorable Mention: ZIO Group, LLC (Modern Lakefront Intelligent Estate)
Excellence in Rack Building & Design – ZIO Group, LLC (Modern Lakefront Intelligent Estate)
Excellence in Support & Maintenance – ETC Florida (Moving to the Future)
Technology Meets Design – DesignLab (Casa MM)
Global Integrated Home – ZIO Group, LLC (Modern Lakefront Intelligent Estate)
Emerging Business – Datamatix, Inc.
Excellence in Business – Integrator – ETC Florida
Excellence in Business – Trade Supplier – OneVision Resources
Excellence in Experience Centre Innovation – Integrator – 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 – IC Realtime (IC Realtime Experience Centre)
Best New Hardware
AudioControl – Bijou 5100D
DMF Lighting – Artafex Linear
DMF Lighting – Artafex PhaseX
Faradite – Motion Sensor 360 – Plaster In
HK Lighting – ARTOAL16 Adjustable Accent Light
madVR Labs – madVR Envy Core MK2 8K
Marvin – Marvin Connected Home
Murideo – Murideo STIX
Steinway Lyngdorf – Lyngdorf FR-2 Speaker
Best New Software
Lutron Electronics – Natural Light Optimization (NLO) for Roller Shades
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 – Sonos Amp
Best Sales Representative – Chris Gilray (Phoenix Marketing Group LLC)
Best Newcomer – Hagan Kappler (Daisy)
Best Technician – Andrew Gandini (TSP Smart Spaces)
Advocacy Volunteer of the Year – Paul Vivian
Certification Volunteer of the Year – Stuart Robertson
New Volunteer of the Year – Jason Adam
Standards Volunteer of the Year – Adam Keplinger
Volunteer of the Year – Nathan Holmes
Workforce Volunteer of the Year – Ron Callis
Fellows – Joe Wallace; Patrick Hartman
Lifetime Achievement Award – Anthony Grimani
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