Arrayent, Inc. Introduces the Industry’s First Turnkey System to Internet-Connect Consumer Products
Arrayent’s Turnkey Internet-Connect System Enables Brand Owners to Connect Their Products to Smartphones and PC Browsers
LAS VEGAS–(BUSINESS WIRE)– Arrayent, Inc. announced today the availability of the Arrayent Internet-Connect System™. The industry’s first turnkey Internet connect system enables electronic product brand owners to connect their products wirelessly to web applications hosted in the Internet cloud at unprecedented low cost and reliability. These web applications are used by consumers to monitor and control their electronic devices from any smartphone or web browser.
“Arrayent is sitting at the convergence of three irrefutable trends: the rapid acceleration or smartphone sales, the main-stream adoption of cloud computing based applications, and the recognition that consumers prefer Internet connected products over their unconnected counter parts,” notes Arrayent’s CEO, Shane Dyer. “Smartphone shipments exceeded laptop shipments in 2008 and they are becoming the go to remote control of choice. Increasingly consumers and product companies are gaining comfort in reliable cloud computing (e.g. web e-mail, web calendaring, photo sharing, and CRM); realizing that they don’t need local a computing resource to provide computing bandwidth. And finally the popularity of Amazon’s Kindle confirms that consumers prefer products that seamlessly connect to the Internet over USB/PC connected products.”
Until now connecting electronic products to web based applications has been a daunting and expensive proposition. For example, designing and building a scalable data center that supports the simultaneous connection of hundreds of thousands of products accessing web-based services, and has low operating cost is an ambitious undertaking. Some product companies may also lack the communication expertise to wirelessly connect their products in a low cost and reliable way. “Arrayent offers a solution to this internet-connection gap by delivering a turnkey end-to-end communication system,” says Dyer, “More importantly; Arrayent’s System’s operating cost is so economical brand owners don’t have to charge their customers a recurring fee.”
Internet-Connect System Description.
There are three components to Arrayent’s turnkey System:
1. Arrayent Server™, a scalable communication server platform that manages the simultaneous connection to hundreds of thousands of endpoints at very low cost. Low operating cost is made possible by a switch-like communication architecture similar to E-Bay, Facebook and Google.
2. Arrayent Embedded™, is firmware that resides on the consumer’s endpoint device.
3. Ethernet gateway reference design (in the case of non-WiFi implementations) connects low power wireless connected products to the Internet.
The Arrayent Server delivers an Internet “dial tone” to consumer endpoint products, and brokers transactions between product endpoints and web-based applications hosted in the cloud. For example, Arrayent connects the consumer’s smartphone web browser to the consumer’s thermostat to turn on and off the HVAC, schedule, view an energy savings calculation, and access other web-based services such as weather.
Arrayent’s System is physical communication layer and microprocessor agnostic. Arrayent Embedded has been ported to 8-bit microcontrollers with RF radios from top-10 semiconductor vendors.
There are already 100,000 end point products that have been shipped that connect using Arrayent’s turnkey system.
ABOUT ARRAYENT
Arrayent offers turnkey end-to-end communication system that is low cost and reliable. Its customers are major brand owners that sell their electronic products through retail and custom installer channels. Arrayent is founded on the principle that consumer products need not be turned into expensive PC-like devices to connect to the Internet. Arrayent’s software runs on low cost commercially available 8-bit microprocessors, and it has implemented a modern switch-like data center architecture that is economical to maintain, eliminating the need for brand owners to charge their customers annual subscription fees. Arrayent-enabled products are very easy to install so that retailers do not experience returns. Customers have called Arrayent the “Cisco of small things.” More information is available at www.arrayent.com. You can visit Arrayent at CES in the Central Hall in the Innovations area- booth number listing 15029C.