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

2. Media Influenced Expectations

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

4. 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

5. Dumb Houses

6. Behind the Jones’s

7. Almost the Jones’s

8. John and Jenny Jones

9. 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

10. The Final Puzzle Pieces

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

12. Wired (Ethernet) = Entertainment

13. Wireless = Mobility

14. Mesh = Devices

15. The Complete Home Network

16. 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”

17. 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

18. 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

19. Web SERVER Control Technology

20. Web SERVICES Control Technology

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

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

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

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

25. 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

28. Dumb Houses

29. Smart Houses

30. Is this the future?

31. Where do we go from here?
PERSONALIZATION

32. Questions?