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Vantage Controls Heads ZigBee Alliance's Home Automation Profile Task Group (3/10/2005)

A Vantage engineer leads ZigBee Alliance task group

Vantage Controls is proud to take a lead role in the development of ZigBee, with Jared Lemke, a Vantage engineer, chairing the Home Automation Profile Task Group in the ZigBee Alliance.

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.

"Everyone in our industry seems to be talking about Zigbee, but Vantage is doing much more than talking," said Richard Brady Vantage Executive Vice President. "We are actually taking a lead in developing standards to be implemented in both Vantage and competitors' products."

Both 2.4GHz and sub 1GHz frequencies are supported by ZigBee. The 2.4GHz band is the worldwide operability band, meaning that a wireless solution will be available globally using this frequency, which will open additional opportunities in the residential and commercial markets.

"ZigBee is a great tool that we want to use to expand our quality lighting control to all of our markets, both nationally and internationally," Lemke said. "We think that ZigBee will help us accomplish that goal."

For the first time, companies will have a standards-based wireless platform optimized for the unique needs of remote monitoring and control applications, including simplicity, reliability, low-cost and low-power. Using a ZigBee standard will also allow the ability for products from different companies to communicate with each other.

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