EI’s approach is to be hardware
agnostic versus C4 has tried to build the best lighting,
hvac, audio and kept it all proprietary, all your eggs
are in the C4 basket. EI has chosen to embrace every
brand of lighting, audio, security, hvac, and more. There
are a lot of good products in the industry, obviously
different strokes for different folks or what is needed
on a job, but we don’t want to reinvent the wheel. Where
we come in, is we help those companies bridge their communications
on to IP using and open standards, WSD, web services for
devices, this can run on linux, Microsoft, thread x, and
more. It is basically like usb type discovery of devices,
but over a network. Then once the devices can communicate
in an open standard...