FW: [HOMEVIS] X10, CEBus, and Lonworks: Which will win?

["Mark McCall" <mark@xxxxxxx>]

Forwarding this from the HomeVision list.

Interesting.

M.


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>[mailto:sentto-359258-982-971396375-mark=automatedhome.co.uk@xxxxxxx
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>Sent: Friday, October 13, 2000 1:21 AM
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>Subject: [HOMEVIS] X10, CEBus, and Lonworks: Which will win?
>
>
>People are constantly asking about CEBus and Lonworks and whether
they'll
>overtake X10 for home automation.  I don't pretend to have the
>answer, but I
>just came across something that may interest some of you.
>
>While looking through my back issues of Electronic House today, I came
>across an interesting article.  It was in the March-April 1992
>edition and
>was titled "Reality Checks: Smart House, CEBus, and Echelon".
>The article
>discusses data from "A Comparative Analysis", a document just
>published by
>Parks Associates and Grayson Evans (who are well respected
>within the home
>automation industry).  That document, and the article, compared the
three
>named automation protocols with X-10 and made projections about
>the future.
>Here are several quotes I found interesting:
>
>   "... it looks as if 1992 could be the year for Smart House,
CEBus, and
>    LONWORKS."
>
>   "Appliance manufacturers are now hard at work CEBusizing
>their products."
>
>   "Compared to Smart House, LONWORKS is a very inexpensive home
>automation
>    network.  Homeowners can expect to spend an extra $10-$30 for an
>    appliance with a Neuron {a chip to implement LONWORKS}."
>
>Most interesting of all is a chart that projects the various protocols'
>share of the automation market by the year 2000.  Since it's now 2000,
we
>can see how these predictions fared.  Drumroll please ......
>
>     LONWORKS:    45%
>     CEBus:       33%
>     Smart House: 16%
>     X-10:         6%
>
>Draw your own conclusions ...
>
>
>Craig Chadwick
>President
>Custom Solutions, Inc. (a.k.a., HomeVision)
>mailto:csi@xxxxxxx
>http://www.csi3.com
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