Ember is the dominant supplier of low power networking technology—chips, software, tools—for the connected home, as well as many other monitoring and control applications enabling comfortable, safer and greener living and work environments. Low power wireless sensor networks are making it possible for thermostats, in-home displays, lights, appliances, security sensors and utility meters and other everyday devices in and around homes to communicate with each other and work cohesively. Ember’s vision is to deliver wireless networking systems that have a profound impact on the comfort, convenience, safety and energy efficiency in people’s living and working environments.
Ember offers today the industry’s most advanced, complete and integrated mesh networking platform based on the ZigBee standard—including chips, software and tools. As a result, Ember’s ZigBee solutions comprise the most dominant and deployed platform globally. ZigBee is an open industry standard backed by a global alliance of about 400 companies delivering cost-effective, standards-based wireless networking solutions for a variety of applications. ZigBee is the ideal technology for most sensor network applications and boasts more than 300, and growing, certified products that are being shipped today.
Ember has shipped millions of ZigBee chips but Ember’s mesh networking expertise and experience were established even before industry standards were created. Today, Ember is the undisputed market leader helping an array of global OEMs develop ZigBee enabled products for Smart Energy, SMA, Home Automation and Building Automation applications. Ember’s leadership stems from the following:
Leading the Industry
Ember is widely regarded as the global leader of ZigBee which is the technology of choice for smart meters and the Connected Home. Ember is a promoter of the ZigBee Alliance and has shipped tens of millions of ZigBee chips making it the world’s most deployed ZigBee platform. Ember also has many industry “firsts” to its credit, such as:
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1st ZigBee/ZigBee PRO Certified Platform
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1st ZigBee System-on-Chip (SoC)
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1st ZigBee Network Co-Processor (NCP)
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1st ARM Cortex M-3 based ZigBee SoC Family
Customer Focus
Ember recognizes that success is contingent upon its customers’ success. Ember delivers solutions that enable customers to focus their energies on developing applications, secure in the knowledge that they have a robust and reliable networking platform. As a result, Ember boasts a world class portfolio of market leaders in Smart Metering, Home Automation, Building Automation Systems and many other applications delivering Ember enabled ZigBee products. Companies such as AlertMe, Control 4, Elster, iControl, Itron, Landis + Gyr, Siemens and many others as well as module providers Digi and Telegesis have chosen the Ember platform for delivering networked smart meters, energy management products, in-home devices as well as security and home awareness systems.
Best-in-Class Products
Ember’s solutions integrate high performance 2.4 GHz low power wireless semiconductors, the most reliable, scalable and advanced ZigBee software, and best in class development tools. Ember’s products have set the benchmark for product performance, and offer unmatched flexibility to OEMs developing ZigBee enabled products. Ember’s 2nd generation semiconductors, 3rd generation networking software, and industry leading development and debugging tools help deliver on the true promise of large, low-power networks. Also, Ember has deployed the largest test network infrastructure in the industry, which is used for rigorous testing of Ember products in diverse configurations and conditions prior to release.
Commitment to Excellence
Since its inception, Ember has demonstrated a commitment to leadership and excellence. Recognized by Inc5000 as one of the fastest growing companies and by the Boston Business Journal as a “Best Places to Work” winner, Ember has made significant contributions to the evolution of standards that are shaping the low power networking market. Ember is renowned in the embedded networking community for combining the excellence of its seamless technical solutions with world class support. Ember’s highly integrated chips, embedded software and support tools are enabling mass customization of wireless capabilities into existing products to enable them to become a part of the Connected Home.
There is significant momentum in Ember’s focus markets – The Connected Home, Smart Metering and Building Automation. Low power, wireless mesh networking technology is ideally suited to address the urgent need for energy demand management and conservation, coupled with people’s desire for more security, safety and comfort in buildings and homes. With a world class team, a mature and reliable technology, and best in class products, Ember is at the forefront and eager to lead the market into the future.
