About CEDIA

CEDIA | About us

CEDIA is the global trade association for companies that design, manufacture, and integrate technology in the home, and empowers members with education, certification, and advocacy. The association powers the industry with cutting-edge education, certifications, and standards to ensure the highest levels of professionalism within the industry.

CEDIA works together with design and build professionals, and their associations, to further collaboration and deliver technology solutions that allow people to have their best moments in life from the comfort of their own home — life lived best at home.

If your clients are not asking about technology already, they will, and you have the opportunity to be the hero. You don’t have to be the expert, you just need to know where to find one. As experts in their field, CEDIA members offer professional advice and guidance in the design of a personalised system for the connected home. They provide information on the latest technology and how to use it as it becomes available. Working with a CEDIA member is the best insurance you have that the final system will meet yours and your client’s expectations.

CEDIA offers Continuing Professional Development (CPD) courses — accredited with RIBA, the BIID, and others — that are designed to help designers increase their knowledge of smart home systems. From learning the lingo to finding the right architectural drawing standards for technology, CEDIA has the resources you need to gain the comfort and understanding of how you can begin incorporating technology into your conversations with clients.