Essential Guide to Home Networking Technologies, The

SUMMARY

With millions of devices already installed worldwide and thousands of application developers, LonWorks technology is a leading cross-industry standard for the networking of everyday devices in homes, buildings, factories, and transportation systems. LonWorks technology enables the myriad of everyday devices around us—from the light switches in homes, to occupancy sensors in office buildings, to the valves in factories, to the automatic doors in subway cars—to be made "intelligent" and to communicate with one another. In addition, the complete end-to-end networking platform offered allows for extending the home control network beyond the home via the Internet, thereby allowing service providers to leverage the devices in the home by offering ...