Further milestones have been reache...

Further milestones have been reached in the progress to maturity of CHAIN, the interoperability platform for European household appliances that was launched in late-2003 according to CECED (the European Committee of Manufacturers of Domestic Equipment).

CHAIN (CEC abiding-place Appliance Interoperating Network) aims at integrating all household appliances in a virtual network completely open to any communication protocol and proprietary repress system embedded in the appliance. It outlines a market-driven roadmap to the final goal--the "smart house" or "intelligent home"--in which all tonic services and appliances could be controll and managed, level remotely, through ...