HAL’s vision is to provide consumers with the freedom to control their homes -- and all the wonderful technology within -- by voice or by Internet -- from anywhere.

To achieve that goal, HAL produces software and hardware at affordable prices that enable the consumer to speak to the technologies in the home -- whether traditional technologies like lights and thermostats -- or new technologies like personal video recorders and MP3 digital music players.

HAL software taps the power of your existing PC or PC device to control your home.  Once HAL is installed on your PC, it can send commands all over your house using the existing highway of electrical wires inside your home’s walls.  No new wires means HAL is easy and inexpensive to install.

HAL’s voice interface makes HAL easy to use.  The user may pick up any phone in the home, press the # key, and then tell HAL to dim the dining room lights or close the garage door.  It’s a two-way conversation, with HAL confirming that it has, indeed, performed the requested action.

HAL turns your PC into a personal Voice Portal.  Is there an easier way to turn on the front door lights when you’re returning home late at night than to call ahead and tell HAL, "Turn on the front door lights"?  With HAL, any phone -- anywhere in the world -- enables you to step inside your home and control it as if you were there.  And you can ask HAL to read you your E-mail, give you a stock quote or a sports score or a TV listing -- because HAL automatically harvests Internet information for use when you want it.

HAL makes home control affordable for everyone.  Users may choose the HAL product with the appropriate feature set to deploy as little or as much home control as they want.  Choose among products that will enable users to control lights, appliances, devices, telephones, home theatre, security, and the Internet.  HAL will schedule your house to suit the way you live.

Home Technology, Networking, and Control is a rapidly developing field.  HAL is moving forward with the industry, developing compatibility for new standards of communication like Universal Plug and Play (UPnP).  HAL will soon introduce a Web-based interface.  HAL’s Web Portal will enable users to control and interact with their homes over the Internet.  (The HAL Voice Portal was introduced first because phones are more accessible than the Web.)  The HAL Web portal will become the user interface for the home network -- the place where the family will go to communicate, to schedule, to play and to order services like take-out dinners or movies delivered over the broadband Internet connection coming into the home!

HAL is a product that is on the leading edge of home control.  And HAL is committed to staying out in front with products that are affordable, easy-to-use, and very, very smart.  Take a moment and review our current lineup and see if you agree.