ZigBee enables pleasant home control experience

Remote Technologies Inc. integrates Ember’s ZigBee technology into whole house control systems

BOSTON and DENVER, September 3, 2008 – Remote Technologies Inc. (RTI), a leading control systems manufacturer, is teaming with Ember, a leader in ZigBee technology, to entrench ZigBee as the premier wireless standard for home control systems.

RTI has integrated Ember’s ZigBee chips and software into its award-winning universal remotes, transceivers and control processors. Now home owners have the most advanced technology to control home theater, whole house audio, lighting, HVAC, security and other home automation devices. The control solutions include a variety of handheld and in-wall controllers, transceiver modules and system processors that can be integrated into virtually any home energy, home entertainment and security application. By incorporating Ember’s ZigBee chips into several of the award winning RTI handheld controllers, these devices will be able to communicate with ZigBee enabled central processors from RTI, on the ZigBee platform for robust and reliable RF transmission.

The RTI products are featured at the CEDIA Expo 2008 in Denver in Booth #128. They included

• T2-C Universal Controller – RTI’s color touchscreen universal remote controller,

• ZM-24 Transceiver Module – which provides bi-directional communications between RTI remote controllers and control processors throughout a house,

• XP-8 Remote Control Processor – a high-end remote control processor for home automation systems,

• ZRP-6 Remote Control Processor – a feature-rich control processor at a modest price; and

• MRP-64 Multi-room Control Processor – which enables whole house distributed audio by acting as the interface between today’s multi-zone audio/video receiver and an assortment of RTI in-wall and handheld controllers.

Together, these ZigBee-enabled products can provide integrated control of a variety of devices throughout the home, from audio/video components to environmental controls, with future support to provide full two way communication and feedback such as volume level or the current temperature to the remote control.

“The professional installation of custom electronics requires high expectations of quality, reliability and security,” said Pete Baker, vice president of sales and marketing for RTI. “Adding Ember’s ZigBee communication capabilities to our product line will provide our dealers and in turn their customers the best standards based wireless control technology on the market.”

The RTI control devices incorporate Ember’s EM250 ZigBee system-on-chip (SoC) and EmberZNet PRO networking software, the industry’s only true SoC platform supporting the ZigBee PRO Feature Set. Ember’s chips and software are a ZigBee “Golden Unit” platform enabling manufacturers like RTI to easily embed low-power wireless communications into their home automation products, delivering dramatic improvements in the quality of life as well as residential energy efficiency improvements for consumers.

“RTI’s products are renowned for the enjoyable user experience they provide consumers,” said Dennis Natale, Ember Director of Sales for the Americas. “Their choice is a testament to the reliability and robustness of the Ember ZigBee platform.”

ZigBee: Wireless Control That Simply Works
The ZigBee Alliance is an association of companies working together to enable reliable, cost-effective, low-power, wirelessly networked monitoring and control products based on an open global standard. The ZigBee Alliance is a rapidly growing, non-profit industry consortium of leading semiconductor manufacturers, technology providers, OEMs, and end-users worldwide. Membership is open to all. Additional information can be found at http://www.zigbee.org.

About RTI
Remote Technologies Incorporated (RTI), headquartered in Shakopee, Minnesota, is the leading manufacturer of innovative, sophisticated and user-friendly control devices for professionally installed electronic systems. RTI’s wide array of award winning control solutions are marketed exclusively through the custom electronics design and installation channel.

About Ember Corporation
Ember Corporation develops ZigBee wireless networking technology that enables companies involved in energy technologies – enertech – to help make buildings and homes smarter, consume less energy, operate more efficiently, and keep people comfortable and safe. Ember’s low-power wireless technology can be embedded into a wide variety of devices to be part of a self-organizing mesh network. Ember is headquartered in Boston and has its radio development center in Cambridge, England, and distributors worldwide. The company is a promoter and Board member of the ZigBee Alliance and its platform is the “Golden Suite” for 802.15.4/ZigBee interoperability testing. For more information, please visit http://www.ember.com.
 

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