Bob Metcalfe, Mr. Ethernet, Discusses Home Automation with Control4 CTO Eric Smith

Added by Brad Baldwin | January 24, 2007

For a highly reliable and secure automated home, networking devices and systems is a core requirement. Eric Smith, a co-founder and CTO at Control4, talks with Robert (Bob) Metcalfe, the founder of 3Com. Known as a gifted technologist, “Mr. Ethernet,” a venture capitalist, and board member at Ember Corporation, Metcalfe is placing bets on a new networking technology know as ZigBee, a 2.4GHz wireless standard - IEEE802.15.4 - aimed primarily at monitoring and control rather than data transfer. In addition to Ethernet, Control4 solutions leverage ZigBee to connect systems where wires just aren’t practical.

In between making predictions for the future of the Smart Home, Smith and Metcalfe joke about the challenge of changing a thermostat to adjust for daylight savings time and the reliability of Windows and PCs compared to a stereo receiver.

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