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Exceptional Innovation's LifeLink Streamlines Integration for Vantage Control Products (1/10/2005)

Exceptional Innovation's LifeLink, the world's first Web Services for Devices enabling module, has been integrated into Vantage home control products, making them instantly compatible with Lifeware: Media Center Edition home control software.

The partnership creates a solution that combines Lifeware's rich, Media Center experience and simple interface with Vantage's proven and popular home control products. By embracing LifeLink, Vantage products can be automatically discovered and configured, then quickly and easily added to Lifeware menus. The net result for integrators is less time on-site and more time building new business around an offering that combines the drive of Media Center and digital convergence with rock-solid, proven automation products from Vantage.

"We want our next generation control platform to be the most flexible and powerful system on the market," said Bob Long, Vice President of Sales for Vantage Controls. "Embedding Web Service for Devices technology into our products establishes a foundation we will be able to build on for years to come." LifeLink converts a device's native programming into a standard Web Service Device format which can be instantly added to and controlled over an in-home network.

Vantage has added LifeLink to their Nfusion controller -- a powerful and advanced system controller designed to meet the needs of a completely converged digital lifestyle.

"This is exactly the kind of relationship that delivers the true benefits of Web Services to this industry," said Mike Seamons, Vice President of Marketing and Sales for Exceptional Innovation. "LifeLink is a product that helps speed the adoption of Web Services, and Vantage adds the intelligent control hardware needed to support the comprehensive digital lifestyle our customers are seeking."

LifeLink is available as an external plug-in dongle, an embedded chipset, or as a software-only package that can be added directly into a vendor's home control hardware. By working with partners like Vantage, LifeLink bridges the gap between modern networks and legacy hardware, vastly increasing the number of products that can be managed by home control software like Lifeware: Media Center Edition.

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