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