Echelon and 4HomeMedia Partnership Results in CES 2007 "Best of Innovations" Winner for ControlPoint 1000.LAS VEGAS Las Vegas (läs vā`gəs), city (1990 pop. 258,295), seat of Clark co., S Nev.; inc. 1911. It is the largest city in Nevada and the center of one of the fastest-growing urban areas in the United States. -- Echelon Corporation Echelon Corporation (NASDAQ: ELON) designs control networks to connect machines and other electronic devices, for the purposes of sensing, monitoring and control. (NASDAQ NASDAQ in full National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations U.S. market for over-the-counter securities. Established in 1971 by the National Association of Securities Dealers (NASD), NASDAQ is an automated quotation system that reports on :ELON), a global networking company providing technology and solutions for controls, smart metering, and energy and environment management, and 4HomeMedia, Inc., a provider of end-to-end solutions for delivering broadband services on home networks, formally announced their award winning collaboration today at the International Consumer Electronics Show 2007 (CES). The initial product resulting from the collaboration -- 4HomeMedia's ControlPoint[TM] 1000 residential hub reference design for original equipment manufacturer (OEM (Original Equipment Manufacturer) The rebranding of equipment and selling it. The term initially referred to the company that made the products (the "original" manufacturer), but eventually became widely used to refer to the organization that buys the products and ) partners -- has been selected as the Best of Innovations Award winner in the category of Integrated Home Systems at CES 2007. The ControlPoint 1000 is a dedicated network appliance (1) A specialized device for use on a network. For example, Web servers, cache servers and file servers can be implemented as general-purpose computers with the appropriate software or as network appliances, which are computers dedicated to a single function and cannot do anything to be offered to service providers, retailers, and hardware OEMs on a royalty-free basis in order to allow such partners to rapidly develop compelling solutions for entertainment and home control, and to accelerate their time-to-market. The reference design includes Echelon's power line signaling
Line signaling is a class of telecommunications signaling protocols. Line signaling is responsible for off-hook, ringing signal, answer, ground start, on-hook unidirectional supervision technology to communicate with other automation devices over a home's existing electrical wires -- eliminating the need for new or retrofit ret·ro·fit v. ret·ro·fit·ted or ret·ro·fit, ret·ro·fit·ting, ret·ro·fits v.tr. 1. To provide (a jet, automobile, computer, or factory, for example) with parts, devices, or equipment not in wiring; Echelon's interoperable self-installation (ISI ISI International Sensitivity Index, see there ) technology, which enables products to install themselves automatically without using any installation tools; and 4HomeMedia's ControlPoint software for delivering next generation broadband services, which includes an intuitive, cross-platform, and contextual graphical user-interface. This combination of an intuitive user interface, a fully-featured platform for delivering a wide range of broadband services, affordable and highly reliable power line communications, and self-installation technology eliminates the major causes of homeowner headaches that have hampered previous efforts at creating a mass market for home control and will make makes installing, personalizing, and operating home automation and entertainment devices a viable proposition for any member of a household. "We selected Echelon's ISI technology for our home control initiatives based on factors such as reliability, ease of use, and expandability," said Brad Kayton, vice president of marketing at 4HomeMedia. "High reliability, which ensures low product returns, reduced technical support costs, and higher customer satisfaction, is something that has been missing in the past in home automation and control. And by using this ANSI/CEA 709.1 protocol, and bridging to TCP-IP TCP-IP Transmission Control Protocol - Internet Protocol via our ControlPoint software, the home power line can be used as a back-bone network able to link together dozens of different types of devices from thousands of vendors globally all in a single, unified interface." ANSI/CEA 709.1 is the North American North American named after North America. North American blastomycosis see North American blastomycosis. North American cattle tick see boophilusannulatus. home control communications In telecommunication, control communications is the branch of technology devoted to the design, development, and application of communications facilities used specifically for control purposes, such as for controlling (a) industrial processes, (b) movement of resources, (c) standard and is a leading control standard worldwide in related industries such as intelligent communities, residential electricity metering, and commercial buildings including apartments and condominiums. The ControlPoint 1000 is designed to be the center of a home control network. Unlike previous hardware designs, the ControlPoint is designed to support the new generation of plug and play standards, and to enable partners to create home control solutions by choosing products to match the end application, regardless of manufacturer. The user interface (UI) provided by 4HomeMedia's ControlPoint platform supports any browser-based display device, including network-enabled televisions, personal computers, dedicated display panels, cell phones, and video gaming video gaming n. 1. Gambling by means of interactive games of chance played on a video screen. 2. The playing of video games. systems. "Echelon and 4HomeMedia have collaborated to make home control simple, extensible and affordable," said Anders Axelsson, Echelon's senior vice president of sales and marketing. "As the first member of the Digital Home([R]) Alliance, 4HomeMedia has taken a leadership position in delivering value to consumers overlooked by other industry players. The combined solution delivers simple self-installation, highly reliable communications, and a powerful user-interface -- the three essential ingredients to making a mass market for home control a reality." "We have felt for some time now that the market for home controls will accelerate once ecosystems of highly reliable, inter-operable products combine with compelling end-user applications that are easy to install and use," said Bill Ablondi, Director of Home Systems research at Parks Associates. "The relationship between 4HomeMedia and Echelon represents an excellent example of a partnership created to deliver on this set of requirements." About 4HomeMedia With one of the most experienced teams in the industry, and years of R&D behind its award-winning solution, 4HomeMedia provides the home solution that is changing the equation for deploying a new generation of broadband services throughout the world. 4HomeMedia's ControlPoint is an embedded Inserted into. See embedded system. platform that allows consumer electronics manufacturers, service providers, home automation integrators, and retailers to rapidly create and deploy compelling, easy-to-use applications and services for the home. At the heart of this patent-pending solution is a set of easy-to-use, familiar, network-level user interface engines that transcend individual devices and provide a comprehensive means of controlling all networked devices and systems within the home. The ControlPoint embedded software Instructions that permanently reside in a ROM or flash memory chip. Embedded software may be immediately available to the CPU or, for faster execution, may be transferred to RAM first and then executed. , when used in combination with the 4HomeMedia.Net[TM] services portal, provides a cross-platform user-interface and broadband services system designed for easy portability to a range of consumer devices. A single copy of the networked ControlPoint software installed anywhere on the home network provides whole home coverage -- from anywhere and at anytime. 4HomeMedia, Inc. is based in Sunnyvale, CA, with sales offices in Charlotte, NC and Knoxville, TN. For more information on 4HomeMedia and its award-winning ControlPoint solution, please visit http://www.4HomeMedia.com. About Echelon Corporation Echelon Corporation (NASDAQ:ELON) is a pioneer and world leader in control networking -- networks that connect machines and other electronic devices -- for the purpose of sensing, monitoring and controlling the world around us. Echelon's LonWorks platform for control networking was released in 1990 and has become a worldwide standard in the building, industrial, transportation, and home automation markets. Launched in 2003, Echelon's Networked Energy Services system is an open, extensible, advanced metering infrastructure Advanced Metering Infrastructure (AMI) or Advanced Metering Management (AMM) refers to systems that measure, collect and analyse energy usage, from advanced devices such as electricity meters, gas meters, and/or water meters, through various communication media on request or that can bring benefits to every aspect of a utility's operation, from metering and customer services to distribution operations and value-added business. In 2005 Echelon introduced the world's first embedded control network infrastructure, the Pyxos(TM) platform, extending the benefits of networking inside machines to the sensors and actuators that make them function. Echelon is based in San Jose, California San Jose (IPA: /ˌsænhoʊˈzeɪ/) is the third-largest city in California, and the tenth-largest in the United States. It is the county seat of Santa Clara County. , with international offices in China, France, Germany, Italy, Hong Kong Hong Kong (hŏng kŏng), Mandarin Xianggang, special administrative region of China, formerly a British crown colony (2005 est. pop. 6,899,000), land area 422 sq mi (1,092 sq km), adjacent to Guangdong prov. , Japan, Korea, The Netherlands, and the United Kingdom. Further information regarding Echelon can be found at http://www.echelon.com. Echelon, LonWorks, Digital Home, and the Echelon logo are registered trademarks of Echelon Corporation registered in the United States United States, officially United States of America, republic (2005 est. pop. 295,734,000), 3,539,227 sq mi (9,166,598 sq km), North America. The United States is the world's third largest country in population and the fourth largest country in area. and other countries. Pyxos is trademarks of Echelon Corporation in the U.S. and other countries. ControlPoint and 4HomeMedia.net are trademarks of 4HomeMedia, Inc. in the US and other countries. Other product or service names mentioned herein are the trademarks of their respective owners. This press release may contain statements relating to relating to relate prep → concernant relating to relate prep → bezüglich +gen, mit Bezug auf +acc future plans, events or performance regarding Echelon's products. Such statements may involve risks and uncertainties, including risks associated with uncertainties pertaining per·tain intr.v. per·tained, per·tain·ing, per·tains 1. To have reference; relate: evidence that pertains to the accident. 2. to market acceptance of home control products developed by 4HomeMedia or other members of the Digital Home Alliance using Echelon's products, risks associated with the timing and level of customer orders, demand for products and services, and development of worldwide markets for home automation products utilizing Echelon's technology; risks associated with the ability of Echelon's products to perform as designed, including in the areas of energy usage, cost savings and customer service improvements; and other risks identified in Echelon's SEC filings. Actual results, events and performance may differ materially. Readers are cautioned not to place undue reliance on these forward-looking statements forward-looking statement A projected financial statement based on management expectations. A forward-looking statement involves risks with regard to the accuracy of assumptions underlying the projections. , which speak only as of the date hereof. Echelon undertakes no obligation to release publicly the result of any revisions to these forward-looking statements that may be made to reflect events or circumstances after the date hereof or to reflect the occurrence of unanticipated events. |
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