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In the home automation industry alone there is an existing market in the range of $100M in sales per year. The company with the overwhelming largest share of that market is X-10 Ltd., which uses the X-10 physical media and protocol. With the expiration of the X-10 patents in 1998, combined with the superiority of PLCBUS technology, this market is immediately available. Additionally the hardwired lighting market is an additional $500M in sales per year. Both of these existing lighting markets will welcome the PLCBUS technology considering its high reliability and low cost.
□ In 2003, upwards of 50% of online user interactions will involve multiple coordinated information appliances and intelligent devices (e.g. cars, electrical meters, etc.)
□ Over the next 3-5 years, device networking & integration will grow at greater than 45% compounded annually
□ By 2003-2005, 20% of all mass market products (cars, phones, buildings, appliances, etc.) will be built on Internet connectivity.
“The Internet has created a universal platform for net¬working intelligence between people, their machines, and each other. As we move forward, the billions of intelligent chips, sensors, and controllers that have been deployed in cars, homes, office buildings and the community will begin to leverage the low cost of Internet-based communications.
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Although there is an immediate application in the lighting controls market, the overwhelming target market for the PLCBUS technology is in providing a powerline communication solution for home networking especially Internet enabled communications.
All major manufacturers in the area of appliances, appliance controls, lighting controls, electrical controls, communications IC’s and Internet gateways are our potential licensees. This includes Invensys, Whirlpool, Maytag, GE, Sunbeam, Leviton, Lightiolier/Genlyte, Honeywell, Johnson Controls, Zilog, Microchip, Cyprus, Cirrus, Motorola, and Toshiba to name only a few. Many of these companies are already allocating significant resources to pursuing just such a powerline communications solution.
There are also a vast number of other companies such as Microsoft, Sun Microsystems, Cisco, emWare, and XtraWeb that are developing all manner of Internet enabling technologies that have significant interest in this technology.
The future of the Internet lies not with PC’s alone but with the billions of everyday devices that work behind the scenes.
In a world where everything will be connected, including the smallest everyday devices such as home appliances, meters, thermostats, pumps, valves, and light switches, the ability to create new applications and new business is incredible.
Without a low cost, reliable “gateway -to-application-device communication” solution the low bandwidth half of the Internet home networking control business will never exist. PLCBUS is that solution.
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