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

by Grayson Evans

Overview

GET THE EDGE WITH NETWORKS AND PRODUCTS FOR "SMART" HOMES Get all the tools you need to work with the CEBus (Consumer Electronics Bus) standard in one handy resource. CEBus Demystified: ANSI/EIA 600 User’s Guide by Grayson Evans walks you through every step required to create residential products that can "talk" to each other (and allow their owners to talk to them), using the latest ANSI/EIA 600 communications and cabling standard for home automation and residential consumer products. This unique guide provides you with a complete explanation of HPnP (Home Plug & Play), and shows you how to:

*Ride the convergence curve with trend-setting residential networks, product designs, and interoperability
*Build a CEBus-compliant product that incorporates "smartness" into homes and products with features that meet tomorrow’s needs
*Use and interpret CAL (Common Application Language), with step-by-step guidance, examples, and reference material not found in the specification

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780071414654
Publisher:	McGraw Hill LLC
Publication date:	03/22/2001
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	373
File size:	11 MB
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About the Author

Grayson Evans has been actively involved in home automation and communication network development and training for the past two decades. He is the founder of The Training Department, a company specializing in CEBus and residential technology training. For the past twelve years, he has also been an engineering consultant to the EIA for the development for the CEBus Standard (EIA-600), the AVBus Standard (EIA-140), and related network standards. He was a founding board member of the CEBus Industry Council and provides engineering consulting to the Home Plug & Play Specification of the CIC. He holds a Masters Degree in Computer Science, and a Bachelors Degree in Architecture from the Georgia Institute of Technology.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1: Introduction. Chapter 2: CEBus Document Overview. Chapter 3: The CEBus Benefit. Chapter 4: CEBus Basics. Chapter 5: Media and Physical Layers. Chapter 6: Protocol. Chapter 7: CAL. Chapter 8: Interoperability and HomePnP. Chapter 9: Product Development. Appendices: A: Object Definitions. B: Sample Contexts. C: Response Error Codes. D: CEBus Resources.