Automated Home - New Home Automation Products at CES

New Home Automation Products at CES

Saturday, 06 January 2001

ZDNET have info on some new home automation products launching at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas this week...

"A consortium of about 60 companies that includes Cisco Systems, Intel, Hewlett-Packard, Panasonic and Sharp has been working to create a common way for electronic devices to communicate through the home electrical line. The group, called the HomePlug Powerline Alliance, recently chose a technology by little-known company Intellon as the basis of its standard.

The HomePlug group expects to make final a power-line standard with data transfer rates of 10 megabits per second (mbps) by March, and the first products using the technology are expected in the summer. Intellon and other power-line networking companies, such as Enikia and Adaptive Networks, will demonstrate their technology at the Consumer Electronics Show."

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