Celebrating an Incredible CEDIA 2025 Showcase: Featuring Award Winners & Finalists in the Josh.ai Demo!
Josh.ai proudly celebrates another successful year at CEDIA Expo 2025, earning industry recognition across multiple categories. The company was named a finalist for the CEDIA Best New Software Award with its groundbreaking AI X OS, as well as for Best New Hardware with its next generation Josh One system processor. In addition, Josh.ai’s first hardware product, the iconic Josh Micro, received the prestigious CEDIA Hall of Fame Award to cement its legacy as a pioneering product in AI-controlled smart home technology.
Adding to the celebration, the forthcoming Josh Edge remote was honored with the 2025 CE Pro Best Award for Best User Interface in Control and Automation, underscoring Josh.ai’s commitment to delivering intuitive and elegant solutions that push the boundaries of smart home control.
These accolades reinforce Josh.ai’s mission to lead the industry with innovation, interoperability, and user-friendly design.
CEPro’s 2025 Best Products Winner: Josh Edge
Josh Edge blends refined design with intuitive functionality, delivering a fully customizable hard-button remote that enhances everyday control. With a three-month battery life, it offers intelligent button mapping, side-mounted volume control, and a central tap-to-talk voice button for contextual commands such as “open the shades” or “watch ESPN.” Powered by JoshGPT, it also provides instant answers and intelligent assistance. A multi-directional navigation pad and dedicated media buttons beneath the voice button ensure universal control of popular sources like Apple TV, Roku, Kaleidescape, Dish, Xfinity, and more.
The remote’s six interchangeable, backlit buttons at the top offer unmatched personalization and flexibility. They can be programmed to control individual devices, trigger custom scenes like Movie Time, or provide shortcuts to favorite channels and streaming services. This adaptability empowers dealers to create tailored solutions while giving clients an elegant, user-friendly way to control the features they care about most.
CEDIA 2025 Hall of Fame Inductee: Josh Micro
As Josh.ai’s inaugural product featuring proprietary hardware and software, Josh Micro uniquely laid the groundwork for smart home interactions going forward. Josh Micro was the first, and Josh.ai continues to be the only, professionally installed voice control solution in the custom home. Unlike mass-market assistants, Josh Micro was purpose-built for luxury smart homes, offering seamless integration with professionally installed systems.
Thanks to its proprietary Natural Language Processing, Josh Micro understands contextual, compound, and whole-home commands with unmatched intelligence. Its elegant hardware, far-field microphones, and localized processing add value for clients who desire performance and privacy.
By combining sophisticated control with a premium aesthetic, Josh Micro not only fit into the custom channel—it created a new standard and market for voice control. Thanks to Josh Micro, Josh.ai has become the industry leader in voice control and continues gaining market share in the whole-home automation category.
CEDIA 2025 Best New Software Finalist: AI X OS
Josh.ai’s AI X OS expands artificial intelligence across its control ecosystem, adding next-level intelligence to audio, lighting, and automation. With AI deeply embedded into the whole-home, Josh.ai unifies smarter, more dynamic control across touch, text, and voice interfaces. This milestone reflects the company’s decade-long evolution as a leader in home automation and its commitment to supporting over 2,000 certified dealers in North America. By delivering simple, modern, and personalized control, Josh.ai is setting new standards for the smart home industry and meeting client expectations for AI-powered solutions. AI X OS introduces new graphical interfaces designed for the Josh App on iOS and Android, Josh Touchscreen, and Josh.ai + AVA Remote, alongside system-wide software updates that strengthen the entire product ecosystem. These innovations introduce intuitive and feature-rich experiences such as the Audio and Lighting Intelligence Controllers, AI Scenes, CustomDash, and JoshGPT 3.0. Clients also benefit from advanced AV distribution, enhanced security with Camera Capture, and the updated Josh.ai + AVA Experience 2.0. Dealers gain powerful tools with Smart Sales & Support features and Nimble Devsuite 3.0, further enabling them to deliver tailored, intelligent living experiences to their clients.
CEDIA 2025 Best New Hardware Finalist: Josh One
Josh One serves as a modern control platform for customers that desire installation flexibility and limitless smart home customization. Offering unmatched affordability and accessibility, Josh One systems are built for efficient deployments, optimal supportability, and freedom of choice for user-friendly automation experiences.
Out of the box, Josh One and the Josh App are the ultimate one-two punch, consolidating up to 100 connected devices onto the AI X OS control platform. As soon as Josh One is on the network, it auto-discovers supported devices, intelligently generates a home’s floor plan, and logically associates corresponding images to each area in the Josh App. Within minutes, customers are able to freely interact with their surroundings and begin personalizing their smart home experience with a beautiful interface. In addition to Josh.ai's software updates continuously improving the user experience, clients may expand upon their control interfaces over time with Josh One supporting Josh Touchscreen, Josh Micro, and all Josh.ai remotes.
To check out all of the new updates released at CEDIA and to get more information into each of our amazing products, read the full Josh.ai press release HERE!
