CEBus Demystified: The ANSI/EIA 600 User's Guide

"CEBus Demystified" makes sense of the ANSI/EIA 600 standard - the standard specifically intended to allow stand-alone products in the home to be networked successfully. It provides a complete technical overview of the product protocol including the CAL (common application language) language and HPnP (home plug and play), and how to achieve product interoperability. It is a guide to each part of the standard, making sense of confusing concepts with examples and instruction on how to make your existing and future products CEBus compliant.

GET THE EDGE WITH NETWORKS AND PRODUCTS FOR "SMART" HOMESFind all the tools you need to work with the CEBus (Consumer Electronics Bus) standard in this timely guide. It walks you through every step of creating residential networks and products that can "talk" to each other (and allow their owners to talk to them), using the latest internationally accepted standard.Ideal for anyone interested or involved in home networking technology or product development, Grayson Evans' CEBus Demystified shows you how to: *Ride the convergence curve with trend-setting residential networks, product designs, and interoperability*Build "smartness" into homes and products with networks and features that meet tomorrow's needs*Understand the basics of HomePnP and how it relates to CEBus*Develop CEBus-compliant, interoperable products*Use and interpret CAL (Common Application Language), with step-by-step guidance, examples, and reference material not found in the specificationThe only guide of its kind, this resource presents an exceptional opportunity to take the lead in home networking and new, integrated products for the home. It's a working tool--and career booster--for those who want to bring the IT revolution home. (And the technologically curious will love it, too.)