Motorola Mobility has just announced that at this year’s CES fair, the company will introduce a new home gateway that was designed to take all the connected devices installed in a household and put them in the cloud.
This includes home control, home security and energy management appliances, which after being connected to the 4Home gateway can be controlled remotely from any Internet connected device including
tablets or smartphones.
According to
Motorola, the setup process is extremely simple as it requires just the press of a button for all these home gadgets to be paired wirelessly and connected to the cloud.
On the inside of the 4Home stands a powerful 1.2 GHz processor running Motorola’s open 4Home software platform, which supports and abstracts a host of standards and protocols as well as a robust back-end architecture.
“People want anywhere, anytime access to their digital lives. Our suite of award-winning products addresses the new ways that people are embracing their connected lifestyle in the home,” said Dan Moloney, president, Motorola Mobility.
“We’re seeing more consumption of more media and lifestyle services across more devices.
“This is an unprecedented opportunity for service providers to differentiate by streamlining these converged experiences.
“At CES, Motorola is showcasing a range of new products that are paving the way for the next stage of the connected home,” concluded the company’s rep.
The 4Home Connected Home Gateway will be showcased by Motorola during the CES 2011 fair together with a series of other innovations of from Motorola’s Home division.
The list will include Televation TV streaming app for tablets, the DCX3600 video gateway, the DreamGallery cloud-based
TV programming service, SocialTV, and the SecureMedia media encryption service.
No word on pricing just yet, but we’ll keep you up to date with how things progress from now on.
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