Plutohome.org have some very cool technology and some smart guys. If anyone could do it they can.
I also agree that there would be a market for people installing corporate phone systems to use handsets to drive the environment (also think outside of boardrooms-there are a lot of other environment switches in the average office). Cheers, Dean > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:asterisk-users- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of peter webier > Sent: Thursday, 4 August 2005 9:31 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: [Asterisk-Users] The killer app for Asterisk in corporate > deployment > > We're a dealer in Europe selling commercial phone & > building management systems, some residential too. > All the new office buildings have an EIB bus to manage > the lights, clima, security access, etc. The big > companies also have Crestron or AMX automation and > media servers for the boardroom. Asterisk is an > awesome phone solution, but if we could offer a > solution that tied it all together it would be the > first product of its kind. My colleague has been > talking about another Linux-based open source project, > plutohome.org, which is geared towards residential. > However, we found that it includes Asterisk already, > and it has automation modules including EIB, and a > media server. So already this gives Asterisk and open > source a huge advantage since we can run all 3 major > systems on the same infrastructure: telephony, > building automation/control, boardroom > media/presentations. > > What would be the total icing on the cake is that they > have a GUI that controls everything and runs on mobile > phones and pda's, and they say, could probably be > ported to run on the Cisco IP Phone 7970G. Since > their GUI code already runs on Symbian, Linux, Windows > and Windows CE, it must be quite portable. With that > 1 addition, then the SIP phone would become the total > heart of the organization, handling the telephony, a > built-in touch-screen to control building automation, > as well as boardroom presentations. And the cost > savings would be staggering. Asterisk is already a > huge cost savings, but with this then a switch to an > open source platform would also elimnate the costly, > proprietary building automation and media servers. A > Crestron boardroom control system is about 20,000 > Euro--with this solution it would all be part of the > existing phone system. No extra hardware, and a > drastically lower TCO. Crestron & AMX do about US$ > 250 million annually on that and they have virtually > no competition in this area. It's a big business > waiting to be tapped. > > The guts is already there and it works--we download > plutohome.org and it's working great with Asterisk and > the Cisco SIP phones, our EIB system. The only > problem is their configuration tool is totally wrong > since it only had the home market in mind, and we need > a port for the Cisco phones. Anybody else agree on > this? Is anybody else thinking the same way? > > __________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around > http://mail.yahoo.com > _______________________________________________ > Asterisk-Users mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users > To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: > http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users _______________________________________________ Asterisk-Users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
