To make its communications equipment market more attractive to carriers, Zyxel introduced at CES a series of consumer-oriented home automation products. Carriers can push, or provide in menu-like fashion, these Java-based apps (based on the OSGI development standard) to their subscribers.

Zyxel demonstrated some of those apps in the video below, including a Z-Wave-enabled wireless router (Z-Wave is a home automation wireless network technology, like ZigBee) that lets users monitor and control appliances, a home monitoring system using a surveillance camera (which can be remotely accessed), and meters for measuring energy use of various appliances

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