Contact: Jonathan Thompson
tel: (703) 907-7664
e-mail: jthompson@eia.org
or
Ed Korenman
tel: (703) 907-7648
e-mail: edwardk@eia.org
http://www.cemacity.org

"This is just the result we expected," said Gary Shapiro, president of CEMA. "EIA has been an ANSI accredited standards-setting organization since 1984. We follow both the spirit and the letter of ANSI procedures, and we were pleased that the Board of Standards Review fully upheld and reaffirmed the integrity of our standards development process."

Steve Fitzpatrick, senior engineer at Command Control Inc. and chair of CEMA’s CEBus Technical Steering Committee, added, "There is a great deal of satisfaction in seeing the CEBus Standard specification become an ANSI standard. The CEBus Standard communications protocol, its control language, and its various contexts solve the complex issues of home control, while remaining flexible and expandable. This is the result of years of work by a wide array of industry participants."

Products that incorporate CEBus Standard technology will communicate with one another to provide consumers with enhanced control, comfort, and convenience in the home. The EIA-600 series is intended to handle existing and anticipated control communication requirements at minimum practical costs, consistent with a broad spectrum of residential applications. The standard is intended for such functions as remote control, status indication, remote instrumentation, energy management, security enhancement, entertainment device coordination, and in-home distribution of audio and video.

Interested parties can order EIA/CEMA standards through Global Engineering Documents, 800-854-7179 or www.global.ihs.com . CEMA engineering information can be found on CEMA’s Website, www.cemacity.org .

CEMA is a sector of the Electronic Industries Association (EIA), the 74-year-old Arlington, Virginia-based trade association representing all facets of electronics manufacturing. CEMA represents U.S. manufacturers of audio, video, accessories, mobile electronics, communication, information and multimedia products which are sold through consumer channels.