Final Pieces to the Puzzle Mike Seamons VP of Marketing, Exceptional Innovation October 16, 2006 ©2006

Media Influenced Expectations

What do we REALLY expect? We expect technology to perfectly complement the natural rhythm and breath of our daily lives.

Smart Cars Zoned climate control Automatic headlights Complete digital audio source and distribution system Power Windows and Locks Remote access and control Video and navigation on demand

Dumb Houses

Behind the Jones’s

Almost the Jones’s

John and Jenny Jones

TV Screen Becomes Family Portal Television Screen becomes a single, unified point of entertainment and control Across systems and across media Dashboard of the Home

The Final Puzzle Pieces

The Network The Ideal Network Robust, reliable network must allow intelligent devices and systems to communicate with each other and with the outside world

Wired (Ethernet) = Entertainment

802.11 Wireless = Mobility

Mesh = Devices

The Complete Home Network

The Standard The Ideal Standard A flexible, reliable, standard way devices can interact on any network Bridge the gap between Devices and Platform Focus on Function and Interface, not UI Enable dynamic discovery over a network – “USB Like”

WSD is NOT UPnP Share Common Goal Dynamic discovery and control of Ethernet-based devices UPnP – forward thinking in 2000, but its protocols are now dated WSD considered a natural evolution of UPnP

Benefits of WSD Based on industry accepted standards Not a Web Server WS-* W3C standards (enterprise computing) IBM, Microsoft, Ricoh, etc. participation Not proprietary to Microsoft Native support for WSD in Windows Vista New platform development tools built around Web Services Microsoft Visual Studios

Web SERVER Control Technology

Web SERVICES Control Technology

Life|link™ C-language Device Stack to WSD-enable devices Windows CE Linux NetOS Tiny

WSD Demonstrations Discovering a Vantage Lighting System Using Life|link to discover a legacy lighting system

Web Service Definition Language (WSDL) 137 products from 35 manufacturers Lighting Contact closure HVAC Weather Audio Shades Media Server Pool/Spa AV Components Appliances

The Platform The Ideal Platform: Robust and Reliable Standards-based Includes Entertainment and Automation Devices Scales Easily among devices – TVs, PCs, Mobile devices

Platform Our position: Media Center is the closest single platform that can tie entertainment and control together Emerging platforms that meet the requirements should be embraced by the industry

Dumb Houses

Smart Houses

Is this the future?

Where do we go from here? PERSONALIZATION

Questions?