Smart Home Design Might Include
A New Take on the Old "Dumb" Waiter
The SmartWaiter by Auton Motorized Systems uses advanced technology to educate  yesteryear’s dumbwaiter in order to provide a helpful service to homeowners faced with carrying groceries and other items from a basement garage to a first floor kitchn.

The SmartWaiter's rack-and-pinion operation provides smooth and quiet service. Its steel, rust-proof frame and menu of convenience controls—radio, infrared, low voltage, hard wired or Crestron—gives an air of futuristic virtuosity.

The old-fashioned solution was to install a dumbwaiter – that loud, clunky in-house freight lift often seen in very old movies. Although it lacked style and efficiency, a California firm appreciated its potential. So they pumped some brains and class into the slow, well-meaning mechanical servant to help architects and builders take the groan out of their grand schemes.

The inspired invention allows architects to give prospective buyers a lift without compromising brilliant designs. And this waiter does not restrict services in the garage-to-kitchen arena. The device is so tastefully discreet that it can go to work in any area of the home where heavy lifting is required.

Maintenance Free Convenience
This convenient lift is maintenance free—no lubrication necessary—and all the gears are safely covered and invisible to home dwellers and guests.

Other agreeable features are range of motion and strength. An average unit easily lifts and lowers up to 150 lbs. over a distance of 25 feet.  Its compact design makes it easy for architects to incorporate into a master plan. And, to ensure safety, the lift cannot activate if the door is open.

Auton Motorized Systems is based in Valencia, California. The 50-year-old firm began by building lifts for bulky, heavy television sets. Since the technology had to accommodate staggering size and weight requirements, durability and quality construction became the norm.
Lift inventor Virgil Walker says he knows one reason his waiter is so smart.  “It’s the fact that only a single closed cable is used on the unit, as opposed to multiple cables that often lead to multiple problems.”

For more information call 866/ 305-9914 or visit www.auton.com.