ZigBee Wireless Standard - Ember - ZigBee Alliance Promoter

SILICON LABS ACQUIRES EMBER

Silicon Laboratories (Nasdaq: SLAB) a leader in high-performance, analog-intensive, mixed-signal ICs, today announced it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Ember Corporation. This strategic acquisition brings Silicon Labs the technology and software expertise required to enable the low-power mesh sensor networks being deployed today in a wide range of residential, commercial and industrial applications.

With more than a decade of systems and software knowledge applied to the connected home, smart meters and building automation and more than 25 million units shipped, Ember has developed a leadership position in ZigBee – based systems and established the benchmark for performance and usability.

The combination will uniquely bring together microcontroller (MCU), power and isolation technology, sensors and both sub-GHz and 2.4 GHz wireless radios into comprehensive portfolio of highly integrated networked solutions for embedded systems.

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”ZigBee as the preferred standard for smart meters and Home Area Networks combined with the over-the-air upgradeability of Ember-enabled low-power networking solutions will ensure we can keep our consumers always up-to-date with the latest capabilities and performance improvements.”

- Petter Allison, Director Smart Metering, British Gas

In the UK’s largest smart energy initiative to date, British Gas, is planning to provide a million customers with electricity and gas smart meters, along with touch-screen in-home energy management displays.

EMBER — CHIPS, SOFTWARE, TOOLS

Ember CEO Bob LeFort Interview

Ember is the leading provider of low power, wireless sensor and control network technologies - chips, software and tools - that enable the Connected Home.

Ember's standards based networking systems simplify the complexity of integrating embedded software, networking and RF for developing low-power wireless products in a variety of monitoring and control applications. Ember's core markets include Smart Energy, Security Monitoring and Automation (SMA), Smart Lighting, Home Automation, Communicating Apliances and other wireless applications in the home.

Ember CEO, Bob LeFort discusses Ember's wireless mesh networking technology and its applications in the Connected Home and other Ember core markets. This interview was conducted at the recently held Smart Energy Summit 2012 in Austin, TX.

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