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Coactive Networks connects networks to the real world, extending Internet access to all of the devices, appliances, and computers in our homes and businesses. Coactive's commercial and residential gateways connect common devices such as thermostats, meters, security systems, lighting fixtures, appliances, and building and home automation systems to the Internet along with PCs. Coactive's products enable the Internet to move beyond connecting computers, and enter our physical lives via a new class of telemetry e-services that are real, personal, and essential for consumers and businesses.
Connecting Networks to the Real World
Coactive is dedicated to enabling the Internet to reach every electronic device in our lives, just as it now reaches computers, phones and televisions. Coactive accomplishes this connection via the e-service gateway, a new category of product that includes both commercial and residential gateways. Allied Business Intelligence defines the residential gateway as "an intelligent hardware device connecting devices and appliances to the Internet." The commercial gateway accomplishes the same for the devices and control systems in a commercial building or industrial facility.
With a single affordable gateway delivering Internet access, multiple home networks, and local intelligence, the Internet becomes the vehicle that allows the networked home and office to become an integral part of daily life. You have continual access, not just to stock quotes and e-commerce transactions, but to things that are personally relevant-telemetry e-services that involve actual devices and appliances in your home. You can save money on your power bill, check up on an elderly relative, see whether you left the lights on, remotely disarm the security system to let a visitor in, and receive instant alerts upon detection of intrusion, water leakage, or unusual temperatures. By connecting networks to the real world, Coactive brings the potential of the Internet to a new level as a resource for the individual.
The Market for Commercial and Residential Gateways
Coactive is positioned at the center of an emerging multi-billion dollar market driven by the synergies between home networking, broadband connections, and mobile Internet access. The Cahners In-Stat Group predicts that the market for automation gateways will grow to $5 billion by 2007. Coactive is unique in this market in our focus and experience in telemetry, the connection to devices beyond PCs. Surveys by Parks Associates, the Internet Home Alliance and others consistently rank telemetry e-services such as energy management, security, and lighting control as among the top home networking services of interest to consumers. Coactive is the leader in Internet telemetry with a highly integrated third-generation gateway platform, and is the leader in bringing telemetry e-services to consumers via their local electric utility as well as via telecommunications companies. By providing access to multiple home networks of devices as well as the local intelligence to react to the data from them, Coactive enables an ever-expanding new world of e-services that builds customer loyalty and creates new revenue streams.
Coactive products are intelligent, embedded networking devices designed from the ground up to be flexible, scalable, and cost-effective. Based on a third-generation platform, Coactive products lead the market, combining an open approach with the reliability of proven, field-tested performance.
The Coactive Connector® product family is a series of highly integrated gateways which interconnect multiple networks, translate protocols, and provide local data logging, alarm generation, and programmability. The Coactive Connector acts as a thin server to provide access to control data using open standards including HTTP, OPC, ODBC, and Java. The Coactive Router family of products enables commercial and industrial control systems to be seamlessly extended over a LAN, enterprise network, or the Internet.
Coactive's IOConnect Architecture™ is a patent-pending embedded distributed object technology that provides the reliability, scalability, and manageability required for large-scale Internet telemetry systems. By abstracting control information, providing a flexible environment for data translation and manipulation, and publishing a powerful distributed object interface, the IOConnect Architecture addresses the complex issues surrounding real-time device access while streamlining application development.
Coactive Networks is dedicated to the open standards model, and has spearheaded standardization efforts while delivering advanced products to the market. Committed to providing customers with solutions that leverage the latest developments in networking technology, Coactive continues to pioneer innovations in network connectivity.
- OSGi Founding Member
- Internet Home Alliance Member
- UPnP Forum Member
- LonMark Partner
Coactive Networks is a privately held company backed by the investment affiliates of 3Com, Detroit Edison, NewPower, and SAP, along with leading venture capital firms including Fenway Partners, CIBC, Charter Ventures, Chase Venture Capital, Portview Communications Partners, TechFund Capital, Tribridge International, and Upstart Capital.
