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Will ZigBee succeed where CEBus, LonWorks, UPnP, SCP, HAPI, WSD and countless others have failed?
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Road to Home Automation Standards Paved with Good Intentions

Will ZigBee succeed where CEBus, LonWorks, UPnP, SCP, HAPI, WSD and countless others have failed? By Julie Jacobson

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05.25.2009 ZigBee is jockeying to become the standard for home automation. Welcome to the club. At least a dozen promising initiatives before it have tried and failed. Here is a brief history:

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This is where it all started. The Electronic Industries Alliance (now the Consumer Electronics Association) wanted a home-control standard soooo bad in the 1980s, and spent oodles of At CEDIA Expo 2000, Panja resources to create the Consumer (pictured), Microsoft, Lantronix, Electronics Bus (CEBus). Primarily a Premise Systems, Smart America powerline-based protocol, the standard and others demonstrated their was supposed to be the backbone of interoperable products in the UPnP utilities demand side management Pavilion. (DSM) initiatives. Intellon was the main technology provider for CEBus but went on to bigger and better things, namely, broadband over the powerlines HomePlug. Via: Will ZigBee succeed where CEBus ShareThis Tags: HomeAutomation, standards, zigbee

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