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Zigbee advances; Newsletter on INSTEON & Home Control Raises Viability
Questions During Housing Decline

"WTRS has reevaluated its outlook of INSTEON?s prospects and is now
projecting two parallel forecasts. In July of 2006 WTRS found INSTEON to be
the best positioned product to succeed in wireless home automation markets.
The current ?As Heard on the Wire at WTRS? Newsletter would still
categorize the technology as excellent, however the issue of success is now
a question of market execution and company strategy. "

?During the past year the investment in people driving OEM sales at
SmartLabs appears to have declined?, according to George West, Senior
Analyst and President at WTRS. ?There are other indications that the
company may be responding to the current housing market turmoil by reducing
its investment in growth initiatives and is instead focusing on cash flow
from operations. This is the basis for the WTRS assessment that there is
considerable risk to the price/volume story for INSTEON in the absence of
an external catalyst such as venture investment.?

"With the recent release of the ZigBee Pro specification and the Home
Automation profile the building blocks are finally in place for ZigBee
products to accelerate. "


... Marc
Marc_F_Hult
www.ECOntrol.org