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The 4Home ControlPoint™ software platform enables our OEM partners to provide solutions for their consumers to live a simpler life. Through a personalized interface that is available on Smartphones, TVs, PCs, or any browser-connected display device, users can see, control, and get alerts from entertainment and home systems. Consumers can plug-in and just start using standards-based entertainment center components, IP-based video cameras, appliances, lights, thermostats, and motion detectors. They can easily create schedules and scenes of devices and appliances, automating the complexity of a hectic lifestyle. And consumers can even combine TV viewing and digital media consumption with home control applications. |
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OEMs can customize the UI to reflect their look-and-feel, such as color schemes, fonts, and logo-branding. Service providers can offer a range of profitable “home services” or “home control services” such as home monitoring, home automation & security, media management, home health, and energy management. |
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4Home’s unique use of XML as part of a distributed software architecture, featuring the back-end Portal Server product, keeps the embedded software footprint small. The small software footprint allows us to port to various hardware platforms or to be deployed one of a few inexpensive hardware reference designs we’ve designed with ODM partners, such as the ControlPoint™ 1000 or the ControlPoint™ 2000; any of our reference designed are made available to partners royalty free. The 4Home home control platform embraces open standards, from DLNA to HANA, from LonWorks to Z-Wave– only 4Home integrates all device protocols in one interface that is available on all screens of the home, in effect future proofing any digital home product rollout. 4Home enables a Home Control eXperience (HCX)™ unrivaled by any other software platform, enabling profitable, personal, and powerful home control services and applications. |
