peter webier
2005-Aug-04 06:31 UTC
[Asterisk-Users] The killer app for Asterisk in corporate deployment
We're a dealer in Europe selling commercial phone & building management systems, some residential too. All the new office buildings have an EIB bus to manage the lights, clima, security access, etc. The big companies also have Crestron or AMX automation and media servers for the boardroom. Asterisk is an awesome phone solution, but if we could offer a solution that tied it all together it would be the first product of its kind. My colleague has been talking about another Linux-based open source project, plutohome.org, which is geared towards residential. However, we found that it includes Asterisk already, and it has automation modules including EIB, and a media server. So already this gives Asterisk and open source a huge advantage since we can run all 3 major systems on the same infrastructure: telephony, building automation/control, boardroom media/presentations. What would be the total icing on the cake is that they have a GUI that controls everything and runs on mobile phones and pda's, and they say, could probably be ported to run on the Cisco IP Phone 7970G. Since their GUI code already runs on Symbian, Linux, Windows and Windows CE, it must be quite portable. With that 1 addition, then the SIP phone would become the total heart of the organization, handling the telephony, a built-in touch-screen to control building automation, as well as boardroom presentations. And the cost savings would be staggering. Asterisk is already a huge cost savings, but with this then a switch to an open source platform would also elimnate the costly, proprietary building automation and media servers. A Crestron boardroom control system is about 20,000 Euro--with this solution it would all be part of the existing phone system. No extra hardware, and a drastically lower TCO. Crestron & AMX do about US$ 250 million annually on that and they have virtually no competition in this area. It's a big business waiting to be tapped. The guts is already there and it works--we download plutohome.org and it's working great with Asterisk and the Cisco SIP phones, our EIB system. The only problem is their configuration tool is totally wrong since it only had the home market in mind, and we need a port for the Cisco phones. Anybody else agree on this? Is anybody else thinking the same way? __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com
Dean Collins
2005-Aug-04 08:43 UTC
[Asterisk-Users] The killer app for Asterisk in corporate deployment
Plutohome.org have some very cool technology and some smart guys. If anyone could do it they can. I also agree that there would be a market for people installing corporate phone systems to use handsets to drive the environment (also think outside of boardrooms-there are a lot of other environment switches in the average office). Cheers, Dean> -----Original Message----- > From: asterisk-users-bounces@lists.digium.com [mailto:asterisk-users- > bounces@lists.digium.com] On Behalf Of peter webier > Sent: Thursday, 4 August 2005 9:31 AM > To: asterisk-users@lists.digium.com > Subject: [Asterisk-Users] The killer app for Asterisk in corporate > deployment > > We're a dealer in Europe selling commercial phone & > building management systems, some residential too. > All the new office buildings have an EIB bus to manage > the lights, clima, security access, etc. The big > companies also have Crestron or AMX automation and > media servers for the boardroom. Asterisk is an > awesome phone solution, but if we could offer a > solution that tied it all together it would be the > first product of its kind. My colleague has been > talking about another Linux-based open source project, > plutohome.org, which is geared towards residential. > However, we found that it includes Asterisk already, > and it has automation modules including EIB, and a > media server. So already this gives Asterisk and open > source a huge advantage since we can run all 3 major > systems on the same infrastructure: telephony, > building automation/control, boardroom > media/presentations. > > What would be the total icing on the cake is that they > have a GUI that controls everything and runs on mobile > phones and pda's, and they say, could probably be > ported to run on the Cisco IP Phone 7970G. Since > their GUI code already runs on Symbian, Linux, Windows > and Windows CE, it must be quite portable. With that > 1 addition, then the SIP phone would become the total > heart of the organization, handling the telephony, a > built-in touch-screen to control building automation, > as well as boardroom presentations. And the cost > savings would be staggering. Asterisk is already a > huge cost savings, but with this then a switch to an > open source platform would also elimnate the costly, > proprietary building automation and media servers. A > Crestron boardroom control system is about 20,000 > Euro--with this solution it would all be part of the > existing phone system. No extra hardware, and a > drastically lower TCO. Crestron & AMX do about US$ > 250 million annually on that and they have virtually > no competition in this area. It's a big business > waiting to be tapped. > > The guts is already there and it works--we download > plutohome.org and it's working great with Asterisk and > the Cisco SIP phones, our EIB system. The only > problem is their configuration tool is totally wrong > since it only had the home market in mind, and we need > a port for the Cisco phones. Anybody else agree on > this? Is anybody else thinking the same way? > > __________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around > http://mail.yahoo.com > _______________________________________________ > Asterisk-Users mailing list > Asterisk-Users@lists.digium.com > http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users > To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: > http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
Lists
2005-Aug-04 10:22 UTC
[Asterisk-Users] The killer app for Asterisk in corporate deployment
On Thursday 04 August 2005 09:31, peter webier wrote:> So already this gives Asterisk and open > source a huge advantage since we can run all 3 major > systems on the same infrastructure: telephony, > building automation/control, boardroom > media/presentations.What this entirely appears to miss is the fact that you do not want an Asterisk box to also do a bunch of other things. Now if you have more than one box and could simply put the controls on a second box it would of course circumvent the problem. -- List Manager Network Voice Communications, Inc. netwvcom.com