SCOTTSDALE, Ariz.--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Universal Electronics Inc. (UEI), a global leader in smart home technology is excited to announce its participation in the upcoming International Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas starting on January 7, 2025.

At CES, UEI will showcase a range of innovative products and technologies designed to enhance the smart control experience and promote user engagement across major consumer touchpoints in the home.

Among the many highlights of UEI's product demonstrations, they include:

QuickSet® 7 with homeSense Technology

• In a major update to QuickSet, UEI will demonstrate its QuickSet homeSense technology as a foundational block for home intelligence, which learns and adapts to home environments to unlock personalized experiences in energy management, entertainment control and advertising, all on-device, always ensuring user privacy. This new technology is complemented by QuickSet 7’s expanded smart home capabilities as a Matter Controller and OpenThread Border Router with a powerful rules-engine; and deeper video and audio content discovery and control across all the leading IP-connected entertainment devices.

Broadening QuickSet Widget Family

• Expanding UEI’s embedded connectivity offering, QuickSet Widget Pro, features the new UE72Y and UE72X models. These multi-protocol modules enable advanced connectivity with dual-band Wi-Fi 6, Bluetooth 5.3, and support for Matter, Zigbee and OpenThread Border Router Host services. Pre-integrated with an advanced software suite, including QuickSet 7 with homeSense technology, and new capabilities such as Edge AI processing, video stream decoding, QuickSet Widget Pro is designed for the future of home intelligence. Additionally, UEI will preview its UE983 BLE 5.4 + Thread/Zigbee/RF4CE SOC set to launch in 2025.

Updates to QuickSet Cloud & nevo®.ai

• Showcasing major updates to our AI-powered solutions in QuickSet Cloud and nevo.ai, that deliver unmatched discovery and personalization of devices, services and content across major touchpoints in the home. From the large screen - the Smart TV, to the smallest - the Thermostat controller, solutions that personalize and guide user onboarding; provide recommendations to enhance user enjoyment; and on-demand AI-powered support to maintain high user engagement.

UEI TIDE Climate Control & Sensing

• Introducing new capabilities in the existing range of connected, smart thermostats, UEI TIDE adds new control features and services for US and European central AC/heating systems and mini-split systems worldwide. With the addition of a more powerful privacy-first, occupancy & presence detection powered by QuickSet homeSense, coupled with a built-in rules-engine and energy insight services. UEI will also highlight new capabilities to personalize home control and manage a mix of Thread and IP Matter devices in the home in a powerful new platform.

Battery-Free Voice Remotes

• In the realm of home entertainment control, UEI will showcase its UEI Eterna sustainable remote family, including XLR, a Battery-free remote control with a new slim design that delivers all the functionalities demanded from today’s voice-enabled entertainment controllers, in the most energy-efficient platform yet.

Arsham Hatambeiki, SVP of Products and Technology at UEI, commented, "We are thrilled to present our latest innovations at CES. Our new products and technologies are designed to make the smart home more intuitive, efficient, and personalized while protecting users’ privacy. We believe these advancements will tackle key roadblocks in building more intelligent homes, enhancing user experiences and putting intuitive control at the center."

Join UEI at the Venetian Expo, Booth #53023, starting January 7^th through 10^th, 2025 to experience these groundbreaking technologies firsthand and see how they are shaping the future of user touchpoints in the home.

Universal Electronics Inc. (NASDAQ: UEIC) is the global leader in universal wireless control solutions for the home. The company brings to life millions of innovative control products each year that focus on a user-centric approach to designing and creating solutions and applications that simplify user interaction with highly complex technologies in the home and removing interoperability challenges as a roadblock for user adoption, with a privacy first and secure by design approach to today’s smart devices.

QuickSet® and Nevo® are a registered trademark of Universal Electronics Inc.
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This press release contains forward-looking statements that are made pursuant to the Safe-Harbor provisions of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Words and expressions reflecting something other than historical fact are intended to identify forward-looking statements. These forward-looking statements involve a number of risks and uncertainties, including the timely development, delivery, technical performance, and market acceptance of products and technologies identified in this release; the purchasing by UEI customers of the UEI QuickSet homeSense, Nevo, UEI Tide, and UEI Eterna XLR family of products and services identified in this release in the quantities anticipated by management; the adoption of the Thread and Matter interoperability technologies identified in this release by UEI customers, the continued penetration and growth of UEIs software and services based solutions and other products and consumer technologies identified in this release; and other factors described in UEI’s filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission. The actual results that UEI achieves may differ materially from any forward-looking statement due to such risks and uncertainties. UEI undertakes no obligations to revise or update any forward-looking statements to reflect events or circumstances that may arise after the date of this release.

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