Zigbee advances; Newsletter on INSTEON & Home Control Raises Viability Questions During Housing Decline
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Posted by Marc_F_Hult on December 3, 2007, 10:35 am
Please log in for more thread options From http://www.wtrs.net/pressrelease_120307.htm: Zigbee advances; Newsletter on INSTEON & Home Control Raises Viability Questions During Housing Decline "WTRS has reevaluated its outlook of INSTEON’s prospects and is now projecting two parallel forecasts. In July of 2006 WTRS found INSTEON to be the best positioned product to succeed in wireless home automation markets. The current “As Heard on the Wire at WTRS” Newsletter would still categorize the technology as excellent, however the issue of success is now a question of market execution and company strategy. " “During the past year the investment in people driving OEM sales at SmartLabs appears to have declined”, according to George West, Senior Analyst and President at WTRS. “There are other indications that the company may be responding to the current housing market turmoil by reducing its investment in growth initiatives and is instead focusing on cash flow from operations. This is the basis for the WTRS assessment that there is considerable risk to the price/volume story for INSTEON in the absence of an external catalyst such as venture investment.” "With the recent release of the ZigBee Pro specification and the Home Automation profile the building blocks are finally in place for ZigBee products to accelerate. " ... Marc Marc_F_Hult www.ECOntrol.org | ||||||||||
