9.2. CEBus
The effort for a Consumer Electronics Bus standard was initiated during a Washington, DC, hotel room meeting, sponsored by Electronics Industries Alliance and attended by 12 members representing 12 different companies in April of 1984. Similar to that of X-10, the original goal of CEBus was to develop an infrared remote control standard. Not surprisingly, some parts of the CEBus standards are used for residential and industrial control applications. During 1986, GE's Homenet was selected as the foundation of CEBus protocol. During 1988, an early version of the CEBus Power Line physical layer was proposed using the 1-Kbps Amplitude Shift Keying (ASK) technique. Some techniques for transmission over other media, such as Twisted Pair ...
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