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Final Pieces to the Puzzle

Mike Seamons

VP of Marketing, Exceptional Innovation

October 16, 2006

©2006

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Media Influenced Expectations

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What do we REALLY expect?

•We expect technology to perfectly complement the natural rhythm and breath of our daily lives.

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Smart Cars

Power Windows and Locks

Video and navigation on demand

Complete digital audio source and distribution

system

Zoned climate control

Automatic headlights

Remote access and

control

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Dumb Houses

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Behind the Jones’s

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Almost the Jones’s

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John and Jenny Jones

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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

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The Final Puzzle Pieces

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The Network

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

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Wired (Ethernet) = Entertainment

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802.11 Wireless = Mobility

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Mesh = Devices

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The Complete Home Network

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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”

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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

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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

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Web SERVER Control Technology

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Web SERVICES Control Technology

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Life|link™• C-language Device Stack to WSD-

enable devices– Windows CE– Linux– NetOS– Tiny

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WSD Demonstrations

•Discovering a Vantage Lighting System

•Using Life|link to discover a legacy lighting system

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Web Service Definition Language (WSDL)

137 products from 35 manufacturers

Lighting Contact closure HVAC WeatherAudio ShadesMedia Server Pool/SpaAV Components Appliances

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The Platform

• The Ideal Platform:– Robust and Reliable– Standards-based– Includes Entertainment and Automation

Devices– Scales Easily among devices – TVs, PCs,

Mobile devices

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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

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Dumb Houses

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Smart Houses

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Is this the future?

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Where do we go from here?

PERSONALIZATION

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