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News Release from: IEC (International Electrotechnical Commission)
Edited by the Engineeringtalk Editorial
Team on 17 September 2007
New standard links applicances
The IEC's new standard links audiovisual and PC equipment with appliances.
The washing machine and the refrigerator are going to start "talking" to the television thanks to a new standard about to be published by the IEC The ability to network traditional household appliances with personal computers will allow a television to notify the viewer that the washing machine has finished, or allow the user to turn on an air conditioner from a personal computer
This article was originally published on Engineeringtalk on 11 Nov 2005 at 8.00am (UK)
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The new standard links the two different communications networks established for household appliances and audio visual equipment.
These were set up separately largely because of the different product lifecycles of audiovisual equipment and computers and slower-changing household appliances.
Home Network Communication Protocol over IP for Multimedia Household Appliances (IEC 62457) can be used with existing home networking standards.
Home Network nodes with or without a TCP/IP layer can co-exist under the same home network middleware.
Household appliances can communicate with audiovisual equipment or PCs and vice-versa without a gateway.
Household appliances can handle text and audiovisual data.
Household appliances can freely select a suitable lower-layer medium from various lower-layer media below TCP/IP.
The new standard is due to be published in October 2007 and some products applying its specifications are now on the market in Japan.
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