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News From HAL!
Control Your Home by Voice or Web with HAL
Laurel, MD May 22, 2003 - Home Automated Living (HAL), the international leader in home control software, announces the release of its new Web interface, HAL HomeNet, now enabling users to control their homes by browser as well as by voice from anywhere! HAL HomeNet gives you the ability to control lights, devices, climate, home audio/video, security and telephone from any screen on your home network. Now your wireless web tablet becomes a touchscreen that is capable of controlling every system in your home. Take advantage of all the powerful home control features in HAL from any browser. Touch a single button on your PDA and shut off all the first floor lights! Listen to your telephone voice messages on your Tablet PC or change the music selection in the living room from the browser on the coffee table. The HAL HomeNet interface is extremely easy to use. The screens are highly intuitive, closely resembling the Windows® XP screen designs that are familiar to millions of PC users all over the world. HAL HomeNet is the newest member of the HAL's award-winning family of home control software and hardware products that give users the ability to control their homes - by voice - and now by Web - from anywhere. Users may speak to any microphone connected to the PC, or to any phone anywhere to control lights, devices, appliances, thermostat, home theatre, security, telephone and Internet with normal, conversational speech. HAL's speech interface is interactive. HAL confirms user commands and retrieves Internet information on demand. Users may call the home from anywhere and tell HAL to read new E-mail messages or to turn on the front door lights and adjust the thermostat, etc. HAL President Tim Shriver said the HAL HomeNet supplements HAL's robust voice interface and gives HAL users the Web access to their HAL systems that they've been requesting. "We've built a Web interface that's extremely easy to use. When you team that with our voice interface, HAL is the most accessible and powerful home control product in the market today." Home Automated Living is the winner of numerous industry awards including the 2002 Consumer Electronics Association "Innovations Award" honoring product excellence in design and engineering. Products include HALbasic, HALdeluxe, HAL2000, HAL Digital Music Center, HAL Voice Portal, and HALvoices. HAL HomeNet is included in all three core software automation products (HALbasic, HALdeluxe and HAL2000) and is included as a free upgrade for users of software versions 2.0 and above. For more information or to purchase HAL products, visit the HAL website at www.AutomatedLiving.com.
For more information, contact George Snyder at GSnyder@AutomatedLiving.com. |