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To: FatSam who wrote (1652)	4/2/2000 3:46:00 PM
From: Sir Auric Goldfinger	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 3076

Actually, that WIND post is very OnTopic as it gets into the nitty gritty of what it's all about. Notice that in the lengthy discussion, ELON never ever comes up. That is because ELON is an OLD company that has never made much progress. Others with the wind (no pun intended) at their backs with smart and innovative engineers have moved generations past ELON.

To: FatSam who wrote (1652)	4/3/2000 10:00:00 AM
From: spiral3	Respond to of 3076

FatSam, the article about Internet Appliances focused mostly on the "networked home". Elon management has been very clear that they see the development of mass markets here to be a few years out, so this would be consistent with the gist of the article. While the trend towards Home Automation and Internet Appliances (as in white goods, not cell phones) has already started, ELON does not currently rely on this segment for it's revenues which come primarily from Industrial Automation implementations at this point. Imo ELON will be perfectly situated to benefit when these "home" applications ramp up. Control Networks, not data networks, are ELON's game. All the networks mentioned by the author...Universal Plug and Play (UPnP, from Microsoft), Jini (Sun Microsystems), and HAVI (Sony, Philips, Hitachi, and others), are data networks and as the writer mentions The three are, of course, largely incompatible. This is precisely why Elon is taking an active role in ensuring that all these technologies remain compatible with Elons control network protocol. Echelon is complementary technology to these data networks and they are focused on ensuring interoperability, on the control network level, between products from different vendors, this is the key underpinning of their technology. For elon's work regarding these stds see this link. echelon.com as per the article....The devices on the network must agree on how to communicate, and so far we don't have that agreement. This problem is being addressed by OSGi (Open Services Gateway Initiative). Echelon serves on OSGi's Board of Directors and as OSGi's Vice President of Asia Pacific. Granted mass markets for "home" internet appliances are a ways off, but the authors contention that..... The reality, of course, is that they primarily exist in the imaginations of the entrepreneurs. is debatable at best and outright ignorant at worst....Sears plans to offer internet appliances for the kitchen sometime next yr, meaning these are further than the "imagination" stage of development, and in Europe a full line of domestic "Internet Appliances" is already available. This release is from March 1999. MERLONI ELETTRODOMESTICI "ARISTON DIGITAL" USES ECHELON'S LONWORKS© SYSTEM TO BRING INTERNET CONTROL TO HOME APPLIANCES The recent announcement of Ariston Digital at Domotechnica, Europe's premier domestic home appliance trade show, marks the first commercial availability of "smart" appliances that work together to be easier to use, more reliable, and lower cost to own. The Ariston Digital family includes refrigerators, dishwashers, washing machines, and other home appliances as well as a multimedia, interactive, touch-screen Home Smart Monitor that monitors the performance of all domestic appliances and facilitates access to the Internet. echelon.com For anyone interested in looking further into Echelon's efforts in Control Networks for the Home , the following links provide a good starting point. LONWORKS HOME AUTOMATION THE DIGITAL HOME© FINALLY ARRIVES echelon.com POWER LINE COMMUNICATION APPLICATIONS STUDY echelon.com ECHELON AND THE FUTURE OF THE INTERNET:http://www.echelon.com/Company/InternetFuture/ OPEN SERVICES GATEWAY INITIATIVE: osgi.org