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New Standard to Enable Home Appliances to 'Talk' to One Another
(Wireless News Via Thomson Dialog NewsEdge)
The washing machine and the refrigerator are going to start "talking"
to the television thanks to a new standard about to be published by the
Geneva-based IEC.
The group said this new ability to network traditional household
appliances with personal computers and audio-visual equipment will
offer such possibilities as your television screen displaying the fact
that the washing machine has finished washing your clothes or turning
on an air conditioner from your personal computer.
The new standard links the two different communications networks
established for the household appliances and audio visual equipment.
These were set up separately largely because of the different product
lifecycles for the fast-moving audiovisual equipment and computers
compared with slower-changing household appliances which tend to stay
in use over periods of several years.
This specification, Home Network Communication Protocol over IP for
Multimedia Household Appliances (IEC 62457), has several key advantages:
- It can be used with existing home networking standards;
- Both Home Network nodes with TCP/IP Layer and without can coexist
under the same Home Network Middleware;
- Household appliances can communicate with audiovisual equipment, PCs
and PC-related equipment, and vice-versa, without requiring any gateway;
- Household appliances can handle text and audiovisual data;
- Audiovisual equipment, PCs and PC-related equipment can handle
household appliances data; and
- Household appliances can freely select a suitable lower-layer medium
from various lower-layer media below TCP/IP.
The new standard is due to be published in October 2007 and some
products applying its specifications are now on the market in Japan.
The new specification is from the IEC Technical Committee 100, Audio,
video and multimedia systems and equipment. Media wishing to address
the project leader for this new specification are kindly requested to
contact:
((Comments on this story may be sent to newsdesk@closeupmedia.com))
((Distributed on behalf of 10Meters via M2 Communications Ltd -
http://www.m2.com))
((10Meters - http://www.10meters.com))
Copyright 2007 Wireless News
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