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.