Universal Electronics Selected as Newest Partner of inHaus
Consortium Dedicated to Creating the Intelligent Home of the Future
UEI's Nevo to Contribute Advanced Wireless Control Technologies to Consortium
Of World's Leading Companies Delivering the Connected Home
CYPRESS, Calif., Aug 2 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Universal Electronics Inc. (UEI) (NASDAQ:UEIC) has joined the Intelligent House Duisburg Innovation Center
-- or inHaus(R) -- consortium, a select group of companies cooperating to
realize the concept of a fully connected home. Together with companies such as
Sony, Deutsche Telekom and Volkswagen, UEI will contribute its industry-leading
expertise in control technologies toward the inHaus group's ongoing efforts to
integrate a broad array of household appliances, devices and systems within an
intelligent network ( http://www.inhaus-duisburg.de/ ).
inHaus Technology Unites the Home, Automobile, Telephone and More Centered at a facility in Duisburg, Germany, the inHaus project comprises both
an experimental networked house and a shared research lab under the roof of the
Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft, the second-largest applied research society in the
world ( http://www.fraunhofer.de/ ). As part of the five-year project that
began in 2001, 18 companies are creating and testing a network technology
platform that eventually will allow homeowners to remotely control everything
from their lighting, heating and security systems to their consumer
electronics, media-PC-server and automobile.
"Our collective vision is to enable household components to work together
efficiently for the benefit of end consumers, which will require a unified
remote control device that can communicate with diverse technology platforms
from an array of manufacturers," said Klaus Scherer, project manager for
inHaus. "UEI's impressive record of delivering innovative, smartly designed,
universally compatible controls makes the company an ideal partner to help
inHaus advance the connected home concept." UEI to Deliver the Control Point for the inHaus Home of the Future Among the UEI innovations that appealed to inHaus representatives is Nevo(TM),
an embedded technology that transforms any electronic display -- such as a
handheld personal digital assistant, webpad or Smart Displays console -- into a
sophisticated yet easy-to-use controller for a range of home entertainment and
home automation devices.
"Simplifying and enhancing consumers' experience of technology has been UEI's
central objective since it introduced the first preprogrammed remote control
nearly two decades ago," said Rob Lilleness, president and chief operating
officer of UEI. "We're honored and inspired by this opportunity to join with
many other innovative companies in extending the limits of what a fully
connected home can achieve for consumers." Through its ongoing work with the inHaus consortium and products such as Nevo,
UEI is enhancing its industry-leading database of infrared codes with two-way
radio frequency technologies and other innovations for controlling the
connected home.
About InHaus The Intelligent House Duisburg Innovation Center -- "inHaus" for short -- is a
thematically and organizationally unique and integral concept in the field of
product-oriented innovations for a networked life. The basis of the project is
the inHaus facility in Duisburg, Germany, which includes a residential home, a
workshop, a networked car and a networked garden. Prominent international
companies collaborating with the Fraunhofer Institute on this project include
Honeywell, Miele, Sony, Deutsche Telekom, Siedle, Viessmann and Volkswagen. The
project is supervised by the IMS Duisburg (the Fraunhofer Institute for
Microelectronic Circuits and Systems, http://www.ims.fhg.de/).
About Universal Electronics Universal Electronics Inc., based in Southern California, develops software,
firmware and turnkey solutions designed to enable consumers to wirelessly
connect, control and interact with an increasingly complex home environment. The company's primary markets include original equipment manufacturers (OEMs)
in consumer electronics and personal computing, as well as multiple system
operators in the cable and satellite subscription broadcasting markets. Over
the past 17 years, the company has developed a broad portfolio of patented
technologies and the industry's leading database of home connectivity software
that it licenses to its customers, including many leading Fortune 500
companies. In addition, UEI sells its universal wireless control products to
distributors and retailers in Europe, Asia, Latin America and Australia under
the One For All(R) brand name. More information about UEI can be obtained at
http://www.uei.com/ .
This press release contains forward-looking statements that are made pursuant
to the Safe-Harbor provisions of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act
of 1995. Words and expressions reflecting something other than historical fact
are intended to identify forward-looking statements. These forward-looking
statements involve a number of risks and uncertainties, including the timely
development, ordering, delivery and market acceptance of products and
technologies identified in this release; the Company's continued ability to
design products in a fashion that results in its technology becoming the
standard for handheld devices; the continued importance of the Company's
database of codes; and other factors described in the Company's filings with
the Securities and Exchange Commission. The actual results that the Company
achieves may differ materially from any forward-looking statement due to such
risks and uncertainties. The Company undertakes no obligations to revise or
update any forward-looking statements in order to reflect events or
circumstances that may arise after the date of this release.
NOTE: Nevo and One For All are either registered trademarks or trademarks of
Universal Electronics Inc.
Other product or service names mentioned herein are the trademarks of their
respective owners. DATASOURCE: Universal Electronics Inc.
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