Nokia spins off Home Control Center team as There Corporation, slips product into 2010
By Thomas Ricker 
posted May 28th 2009 8:51AM
posted May 28th 2009 8:51AM
Remember Nokia's Home Control Center launched in December with plans to send home automation product to retail by the end of 2009. Well, it's been upended today with Nokia bowing out of its own smart home activities and licensing the technology to the independent There Corporation -- a company that now employs Nokia's former Smart Home team. Unfortunately, we're now looking at the beginning of 2010 before we see the first solution dubbed Safety 360; a "security kit" for monitoring fire and water leakage alarms, intrusion detection, and energy consumption monitoring through the use of the Home Control Center device (pictured right), door/window sensors, motion, flood, and smoke detectors, and a "Binary Switch with electricity meter"... whatever that is. You know, at this point, we'd be happy for a big name consumer electronics company to sweep in, set a de facto standard, and kick the dozen or so proprietary and so-called "industry standards" to the curb so that we can finally take home automation mainstream. Maybe that'll be Z-Wave which is the only home automation communication standard listed under the device specs for 
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Is its striking resemblance to an ice cream sandwich intentional?
who cares about Nokia! Anyone that wants a reliable and affordable Home Automation system right now... just buy MiCasaVerde. I bought it back in November 2008 and think it's the best thing ever. It currently sells for $299.99 and handles all your home automation needs. You can even get an iPhone App if you want to control everything via your cell phone.
You guys should check it out!
oh yeah... and MiCasaVerde uses Z-Wave
"monitoring fire and water leakage alarms" .... Gotta watch that fire leakage!
thats called a "hot crotch"
I did a report on Nokia. Good Company, we talked about their cell market strategies. Anyway I think every home will have one of these in the future.
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"Binary Switch with electricity meter"
uhhh... is that an on off switch (binary) with voltage control?
so it's a computer power supply?
mr richter: I tried to write you privately with some editing suggestions but the story didn't have an email link for you. so here goes:
line 2: "...plans to send THE home automation product to retail..."
line 2: sentence should have ended with a question mark, not a period.
line 5: "...a company that now EMPLOYS..." (not "that now employees...")
line 7: "the first solution COMMA dubbed Safety 360 COLON..."
line 14: "the dozen or so PROPRIETARY..." (not "propriety")
there are also a number of places commas should have been used and weren't, or were misused.
You seem to have a good grasp of the subject matter. And I like the tone you established in the report. Mistakes like the ones above can be worked around by readers--but they shouldn't have to be. There were simply too many mistakes for a SIX sentence piece. They interfere with what's good about your work.
Again, I'm sorry I was unable to share these with you privately.
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Rtdunham, it has come to my attention that you have spelt/spelled Thomas Ricker's name incorrectly, moreover all names and titles are capitalized and so it would be Mr. Ricker and not mr richter as you have put. Sorry to be of any inconvinence
My misspelling the author's name is a more egregious mistake than the ones he made. richb93's point is well taken. I should have done better.
To make up for my error, I'm not even gonna mention richb93's "inconvinence". :)
Dammit where's my [joke] tags I put in!
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