America's favorite cake maker, Buddy Valastro of Carlo's Bakery, can control and automate every aspect of his new 7,000 square foot New Jersey dream home, right from his iPhone or iPad with the ELAN g! Home Control System he just installed.

Valastro's appreciation for the ELAN g! Control System will soon extend beyond the home, as he and Gale later this year integrate the g! System throughout Valastro's brand-new 35,000 square foot command center, a high volume bakery production facility in Jersey City, New Jersey.

Look for a profile of Buddy and his new high tech dream home in the September 2011 issue of Electronic House magazine.

When Valastro moved in 2010, he didn't know much about home automation. He had a new music distribution system installed, but that was it.  Two days after closing on the house, he was introduced to Chima Gale, owner of 360 Media Innovations, who showed him how the ELAN g! IP-based Home Control System could make his life, and his home, simpler to manage.  After a short demo at the set of Valastro's television show, Gale had him hooked. Now, they have just completed a $100,000 ELAN g! installation that lets Valastro control every aspect of his home from around the globe.

"In today's world, if you don't embrace new technology, you get left behind," Valastro said.  "I use state-of-the-art appliances in my kitchens, but had never spent much time thinking about other parts of the house.  So I said to myself, 'I want a space-age house. I want to turn off all the lights with one button before I go to bed, and I want music playing when I walk into the kitchen in the morning.'  The best thing about this system is it took no time at all to learn to use it.  My family knows how to use an iPad and an iPhone, so the software feels just like any other app we use on a daily basis. Having all the systems – the heating, lighting, music, and alarms – adjust themselves throughout the day has made everyday life simpler for me and my family."

Available starting at $1860 for a single-room, four function control solution, the ELAN g! Series Home Control System can be expanded quickly and cost-effectively to enable whole home control of every room appliance.  ELAN g! provides users with the most uniform and intuitive icon-based control from their favorite devices, including TVs, touchscreens, touchpads, PCs , iPhones, and iPads. The standardized interface works across platforms, so that the trendy g!Mobile app users love on the iPhone appears and works similarly on ELAN touchscreens, valets and handheld remotes as well as users' televisions and mobile devices. And the system's IP backbone makes it just as easy to control the system from across the room - or across the globe.