| In the beginning of the history (Circa 1980) of control automation technologies, York Controls, Crestron, and AMX were among the first manufacturers. York Controls, though very well known at the time, was eventually unable to survive in this tremendously demanding and burgeoning market. Crestron, and AMX, however, survived these difficult pioneering days, and survived the industry's growing pains , by establishing themselves and eventually thriving by producing products in the corporate AV markets. They accomplished this by developing extremely complex “black box” hardware, and complicated programming algorithms in order for their proprietary hardware and software-based systems to work. This was most likely necessary considering the primitive state of integration technology at that time. And because of the still undeveloped technologies back then, in order to carry a growing market share of the industry, they painstakingly developed, and as the progress of this technology advanced, they made the decision to maintain and develop the proprietary platforms that their empires were entirely built upon still today. A slight exception might be with AMX Corporation, which after analyzing and accessing their own pending proprietary technology obsolescence in the future landscape of the control systems marketplace, made decisions to integrate JavaScript options into their control system software programming environment. The problem remained however, that both Crestron and AMX (and Control 4, a later version of the similar 1980's era technology) had unfortunately adopted touch screen and GUI platforms that are still, for the most part, an extremely convoluted result of a multiple-processor technology based on the “black box” firmware modules married inextricably to their proprietary and intensive control format programming. Fortunately, Crestron, AMX and Control 4 are not the only manufacturers of control systems in the world today. They are still using 1980's technology and their products are extremely expensive to install and to maintain.
What makes the LAMBDA TD SOFTWARE LFE™ FIVE different from our competition is that: 1) we are cloud-based so we can connect to an unlimited amount of homes creating communities and/or independent households. (competitors can only automate one single family home at a time and are unable to connect multiple dwelling units into a universal platform), 2) competitor business model is installation only while the LFE™ FIVE is installation, monthly service and community exchange- all producing revenues, and 3) we are able to offer a "Technology Non-Obsolescence Warranty" - while our competitor's solution cannot.
Our business model is in a segment of the industry that (1) has consistent growth; (2) does not rise and fall dramatically with the economy; (3) essentially repeats the same tasks from job to job; (4) isn't capital intensive to start or to maintain; (5) can be operated independently of other Contractors- that is, we are able to secure, start, and complete a contract without having to depend on general Contractors or other Sub- Contractors to do their parts of the job. LAMBDA commands a unique niche in our industry and currently, no other company can make this claim.
Capturing the rising consideration for convenience, security and energy conservation among the world population, home automation is coming to the fore as major home technology. The global home automation market continues to witness robust growth and is on course, according to industry analysts, to reach US $5.4 billion by 2012. Smart homes are going to catch on and they will certainly be intelligent and intuitive. |
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