Intelligent Living Appointed Distributor of Home Automation Inc. Energy Conservation and Automation Products in Turkey

Intelligent Living Corp. ("ILVC"), (OTCBB: ILVC), a leading automation and technology solutions provider, utilizing green building practices, announced today that Home Automation Inc. (HAI) has appointed ILVC as their distributor for the Turkish market.
ILVC, through their Turkish partners, Kilia Teknoloji (www.akilliyasam.biz) is now distributing HAI products and providing technology know-how for energy conservation and automation projects in Turkey, including custom designed user interfaces.
"HAI's leading technology plus our capability to provide customized Turkish language display capability definitely give us a market leading solution," noted Murat Erbatur, P.Eng. COO of Intelligent Living. "HAI's Automation Studio software combined with the customizable user interface capability of their new 5.7 and 10 inch touchscreens, enables us to offer user interfaces in the Turkish and middle eastern languages. These features make us unique and greatly improve the appeal of our all-in-one automation control and entertainment systems in this very active market."
ILVC is also working with Smart Home Technologies Ltd. located in Israel which is developing Universal Power Buss light switches under license from PCS that are compatible with HAI controllers for use in 240v markets.
About ILVC (www.intelligent-living.us): Intelligent Living Corp, utilizing green building practices, specializes in designing, supplying, installing, upgrading and servicing home and commercial automation systems including: energy use monitoring and control, security, occupancy monitoring and access control, lighting and HVAC control, and distributed audio/video systems. The Company utilizes wire and wireless technology, and offers traditional component and Windows Media PC based architecture. ILVC, a member of the Canadian Green Building Council, has supplied custom IT solutions since 1994 and automation solutions since 2003. The Company has offices and demonstration suites in Phoenix and Vancouver.
About HAI (www.homeauto.com): HAI (Home Automation, Inc.) is a privately held manufacturer of integrated automation and security products for residential and commercial use based in New Orleans, LA. Incorporated in 1985, HAI has developed a full line of award-winning automation products, including home control systems, programmable communicating thermostats, smart light switches, Whole Home Audio systems, video surveillance equipment, touchscreen interfaces, and software that allow access and control of an automation system over the Internet. All products are sold through HAI's worldwide network of Distribution Partners and installed by trained dealers in over 80 countries.
About Kilia (www.kiliateknoloji.com.tr): Founded in 1988, Kilia Teknoloji is a leading supplier of state-of-the-art integrated security management systems, access control system and engineered EMI/EMC filter systems for secured telemetry to both Governments and industry. Kilia was responsible for the design, installation and commissioning of a high security remote monitoring and telemetry system at four of Turkey's international port facilities and recently completed installing access monitoring and home automation utilizing Moeller's Xcomfort system at the Gokturk Palm multi-unit residence development in Istanbul. Kilia is a member of ASIA International (www.asisonline.org) and is the exclusive agent for LCR Electronics in Turkey.
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http://money.cnn.com/news/newsfeeds/articles/marketwire/0556008.htm

47th Design Automation Conference Announces Calls for Submissions to Technical Program

Deadlines Begin on October 26, 2009
LOUISVILLE, Colo.--(Business Wire)--
The 47th Design Automation Conference (DAC), the premier conference devoted to
electronic design and design automation (EDA), has opened the first Call for
Contributions to the technical program. The 47th DAC will be held at the Anaheim
Convention Center, in Anaheim, California from June 13-18, 2010. IC designers,
application engineers, design flow developers, vendor-customer teams and
students are invited to submit proposals for eight different areas of the
technical program enumerated below. DAC is also accepting proposals for
workshops and co-located events. 

Special Session Suggestions:
DUE BEFORE 5:00pm MT, October 26, 2009
DAC invites suggestions for special sessions, which consist of technical
contributions devoted to a topic of strong contemporary or future interest. The
topic of a special session must represent an emerging area that does not yet
receive sufficient focus from research papers. Suggestions must include
descriptions of the proposed papers and speakers as well as the importance of
the special session to the DAC audience.
See Special Session submission guidelines at
http://www.dac.com/47th/PDFs/47th_DAC_SpecialSession_Guidelines.pdf

Panel and Tutorial Suggestions:
DUE BEFORE 5:00pm MT, October 26, 2009
Suggestions for panels and tutorials should not exceed two pages, should
describe the topic and intended audience, and should include a list of suggested
participants. Tutorial suggestions must include a bulleted outline of covered
topics.
See the Full-day Tutorial Submission guidelines at
http://www.dac.com/47th/PDFs/47th_DAC_FullDay_Tutorial_Submission_Guidelines.pdf

User Track Presentations:
Extended Abstracts DUE BEFORE 5:00pm MT, January 18, 2010
User Track Presentations address the real-life issues facing IC designers,
application engineers, and design flow developers, providing valuable insights
and experiences with in-house or commercial EDA tool flows. Presentations may
describe the application of EDA tools to the design of a novel electronic system
or the integration of EDA tools within a design flow or methodology to produce
such systems.
Initial submissions are in the form of a two-page extended abstract. Final
submissions will be in the form of a PowerPoint presentation and an optional
paper. User Track authors will not be required to sign a copyright release form.
See details and submission categories at http://www.dac.com/47th/UTinfo.html

Research Papers:
DUE BEFORE 5:00pm MT, November 19, 2009
Original research papers are solicited from industry and the research/academic
community. While submissions in all areas of design automation are welcome, DAC
specifically solicits research papers in the areas of multicore/many core
architectures, system prototyping technology and embedded software design and
debug.
Submissions must not identify the author(s) by their name(s) or affiliation(s)
anywhere on the manuscript or abstract, with all references to the author(s)`s
own previous work or affiliations in the bibliographic citations being in the
third person. All research papers will be reviewed as finished papers. Authors
of accepted papers must sign a copyright release form for their paper. See
submission topic categories at http://www.dac.com/47th/PDFs/47DAC_CFP.pdf
See format and submission guidelines at
http://www.dac.com/47th/PDFs/47th_DAC_Research_Paper_Guidelines.pdf

Wild and Crazy Ideas (WACI) Papers
DUE BEFORE 5:00pm MT, November 19, 2009
WACI Papers cover interesting activities on a wide variety of topics that do not
fit in the conventional mold. The WACI track features novel (and even
preliminary or unproven) technical ideas. The aim of WACI is to promote
revolutionary and "way-out" ideas that inspire discussion among conference
attendees, create a buzz, and get people talking. Submissions should not exceed
two pages, but must otherwise follow the rules and deadlines for the research
papers. Unlike a DAC research paper that explores a specific technology problem
and proposes a complete solution to it, with extensive experimental results, a
WACI paper could present less developed but highly innovative ideas related to
areas relevant to DAC. All WACI accepted papers will be required to post a
two-minute video describing the work as part of the acceptance process.
See submission details at
http://www.dac.com/47th/PDFs/47th_DAC_WACI_Submission_Guidelines.pdf

Student Design Contest Submissions:
DUE BEFORE 5:00pm MT, November 25, 2009
Jointly sponsored by ISSCC and DAC, the contest promotes excellence in the
design of electronic systems within an academic environment and provides a forum
in which undergraduate/graduate students` ingenuity can be shared with an
audience of academic/industrial technical experts. The winners will present
their designs through posters at ISSCC 2010 and DAC 2010. Designs may be
targeted towards analog, digital, MEMS, optics, biological, or programmable
circuits and embedded systems/platforms in any of the three categories:
operational, system level, or conceptual.
See submission details at
http://www.dac.com/47th/PDFs/47th_SDC_Submission_Guidelines.pdf

Workshops:
DUE BEFORE 5:00pm MT, January 29, 2010
Workshops focus on topics related to design, design methodologies, and design
automation.
See submission topic categories at http://www.dac.com/47th/PDFs/47DAC_CFP.pdf

For additional information on all submissions, please see
http://www.dac.com/47th/PDFs/47DAC_CFP.pdf

About DAC

The Design Automation Conference (DAC) is recognized as the premier event for
the design of electronic circuits and systems, and for Electronic Design
Automation (EDA) and silicon solutions. A diverse worldwide community
representing more than 1,000 organizations attends each year, represented by
system designers and architects, logic and circuit designers, validation
engineers, CAD managers, senior managers and executives to researchers and
academicians from leading universities. Close to 60 technical sessions selected
by a committee of electronic design experts offer information on recent
developments and trends, management practices and new products, methodologies
and technologies. A highlight of DAC is its Exhibition and Suite area with
approximately 200 of the leading and emerging EDA, silicon, IP and design
services providers. The conference is sponsored by the Association for Computing
Machinery (ACM), the Electronic Design Automation Consortium (EDA Consortium),
and the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), and is
supported by ACM's Special Interest Group on Design Automation (SIGDA) and
IEEE's Council on Electronic Design Automation (CEDA). More details are
available at: www.dac.com. 

Design Automation Conference acknowledges trademarks or registered trademarks of

other organizations for their respective products and services.

http://www.reuters.com/article/pressRelease/idUS183725+21-Oct-2009+BW20091021

Start-Up Electronics Marketplace Aims to Thwart Counterfeits

An online marketplace for high-tech electronics will launch tomorrow with a strategy to filter out counterfeit parts and offer anonymous, secure transactions to buyers and sellers in the secondary market.

Verical, a start-up backed by venture capital firm Valhalla, qualifies the sellers in its network and audits the inventory in its Web-based catalog, assigning a rating to each part based on its chain of custody, or pedigree. This enables sellers to turn their excess inventories into cash, and buyers to know just what they’re getting, co-founder John Brown, vice president of marketing & strategy, told Managing Automation in a recent interview.

The online marketplace can help manufacturers deal with ever-changing forecasts and resulting parts shortages, Chris Cookson, vice president of supply chain and operations at the company, told MA in an interview. The primary supplier channel may not be able to react quickly enough, especially as the market starts to recover from the downturn. Generally, “about 40% of purchasing’s time is spent scouring 1% of parts,” he said. “We provide a safe source of parts, available on demand, and we execute transactions quickly through our automated system.”

The catalog is built on a so-called rich Internet application, Brown said. A buyer can find out “in a few seconds” what parts are available, along with date codes, lot codes, prices, and features. Verical can automatically upload data from Excel spreadsheets to the online catalog, company executives said.

Brown and co-founder Josef Ruef, CEO, came up with the idea for Verical in response to the threat to the supply chain by counterfeit parts that, more and more, were passing visual inspections and even initial testing.

“The secondary market is being exploited by fraudsters and profiteers,” Ruef said in a statement.

The founders reasoned that using chain of custody information and “allowing only first owners to sell would block out an entry point for counterfeiters and would give buyers confidence,” Brown said. “This is an extension of the primary market.”

Of the $600 billion annual market for electronic components, the time-critical segment is roughly $22 billion, of which about $12 billion is serviced by unauthorized distributors and 13% of which is counterfeit, according to Verical’s statement, citing figures from electronics industry trade association IPC.

Under Verical’s rating system, a product with four stars comes directly from or is traceable to the component manufacturer. A three-star rating indicates that a component comes directly from or is traceable to an authorized distributor. Two stars mean that the seller is a member of the Verical community and has a purchase order listing an authorized distributor or the original manufacturer. A product with one star comes from an OEM or electronics manufacturing service (EMS) member of the community.

Verical takes a commission on all sales. The company processes orders and passes them through to the sellers. Components are delivered by Verical’s third-party logistics partners to preserve both buyers’ and sellers’ anonymity.

For sellers, Cookson said in a statement, “writing off excess inventory equals lost revenue. Typically, sellers of excess inventory get 4% to 8% return. Today, in the Verical Marketplace, they’re getting eight to 10 times that, with the average seller recovering 60% of the historical cost.”

Before co-founding Verical, Brown worked at the Corporate Executive Board presenting management best practices to senior executive teams of Global 2000 companies. He also worked at the Department of Homeland Security on a data-sharing platform. Ruef was a member of the start-up executive team at Velocity Electronics, where he oversaw brand development, sales, and quality control. He also served as a consultant to Trading Hubs (later known as eHitex), the electronics industry’s first-generation HP-led B2B marketplace.
http://www.managingautomation.com/maonline/news/read/StartUp_Electronics_Marketplace_Aims_to_Thwart_Counterfeits_33087

Rockleigh electronics firm tapped to create high-end mobile office

Customized Mercedes-Benz van equipped with office technology.

Creston Electronics, in Rockleigh, said Tuesday it partnered with Becker Automotive Design, in Oxnard, Calif., to develop a high-end mobile office for luxury transport vehicles. Creston is a maker of control and automation systems, including computer and Internet protocol systems. Becker customizes chauffeur-driven luxury vehicles.

The companies are upgrading Cadillac Escalade ESV sport utility vehicles and Mercedes-Benz Sprinter vans with high-speed wireless communications, satellite television reception, flat-panel screens, and other audio and video amenities.

When equipped, the vehicles offer mobile Web browsing, video conferencing and other options for business connectivity.

Other creature comforts include Blu-ray video players, iPods and a home theater style audio-video system.

http://www.njbiz.com/article.asp?aID=79076

Global site unites industrial automation

Industrial automation web portal is designed to ensure that customers receive consistent information wherever their operations are based.

Omron has set up a new global portal website for its industrial automation business which has been designed to ensure that its customers receive consistent information wherever their operations are based, and to further enhance Omron's visibility on the Internet.

The portal reflects the global nature of Omron's industrial automation business, which has sales and service bases in locations throughout the world, with roughly half of its sales generated outside of its home base in Japan.

This global growth has been supported by highly localised service delivery, in which Omron's country-specific, local-language websites have played a crucial role.

As Omron supports some of the world's largest manufacturers, the company is committed to provide a standardised and uniform service to its global customers.

Designed as a "one-stop-shop" for the latest information in English, the portal provides details on Omron's full range of industrial automation products and services, and also their stock availability around the world.

A key feature of the portal is an intuitive search system designed to help customers easily navigate around the wealth of information available.

The site also connects potential and existing customers to Omron's regional websites via an easy-to-navigate map on its top page.

All UK enquiries received through the portal site will be immediately redirected to Omron Electronics in the UK and answered by UK staff.

To ensure the portal is useful and relevant to users, Omron's Industrial Automation Global Service Centre based in Japan will analyse local enquiries for valuable customer insights that can be reflected in future product design and customer.
http://www.engineeringtalk.com/news/omr/omr228.html

Automation controller

The iPAC-5010 is powered by Artila's M-501 SoM, which is equipped with an Atmel AT91RM9200, 180MHz ARM9 RISC SoC, onboard 64Mbyte SDRAM, 16Mbyte Flash memory, and Linux 2.6 OS pre-installed.

Artila Electronics has released the iPAC-5010 ARM9-based, Linux-ready, programmable automation controller.

The iPAC-5010, featuring both a reliable ARM9 SoC and Linux operating system, is suitable for facility management, remote device monitoring, building automation, and machine control.

The iPAC-5010 is powered by Artila's M-501 SoM (System on Module) which is equipped with an Atmel AT91RM9200, 180MHz ARM9 RISC SoC, onboard 64Mbyte SDRAM, 16Mbyte Flash memory, and Linux 2.6 OS pre-installed.

Moreover, the iPAC-5010 provides 16 channels of isolated digital input to monitor the on/off status of external sensors and devices, eight channels of Darlington pair transistors to switch on/off external relays, one RS-485 to access industrial serial devices, an RS-232 for dial-up connection via a GSM/GPRS modem, two USB ports for Flash memory disks, both WiFi and Bluetooth connectivity, plus USB camera expansions and an SD socket are also available for mass storage expansion.

The dual 10/100Mbit/s Ethernet ports are ready for the user to implement flexible network functions such as redundant Ethernet, industrial protocols conversion, an internet gateway, and firewall/VPN.

In addition to its open Linux operating system, the iPAC-5010 also boasts a boa web server, busybox utility, and the Gnu C/C++ GLIBC tool chain.

Its DIN-RAIL mount design, wide range of 9 to 40V DC power input capability, and low power RISC SoC make the iPAC-5010 suitable for numerous industrial applications.

http://www.engineeringtalk.com/news/arz/arz103.html

German electronics automation builder revived

ACI-ecotec of St Georgen, Germany, producer of automated soldering technologies and automated cells and production lines for the electronics industry, is enjoying new investment.

ACI-ecotec and Co KG of St Georgen, Germany (formerly 'ecotec ') has recently been re-launched with a new strength of German investment.

This new investment is providing a boost of re-development to an existing well understood product range to a substantial customer base including, Siemens, Papst, Sennheiser, Alcatel and many others.

In realising the strengths of the company, the existing skill base has been preserved by keeping 95% of its engineers and technicians, skilled and experienced in automated soldering technologies and automated cells and production lines for the electronics industry.

ACI-ecotec also specialise in bespoke 'micro-assembly' machines (for 1-2mm parts or less) and general assembly machines, offering a custom solution to a standard but modular and flexible cell for use as an isolated cell, or as a production line unit that can be configured to the application, or added to existing production lines.

ACI-ecotec have named this system, the 'Multiflex' offering modularity and flexibility.

The advantages include shorter delivery times from a standard cell whilst maintaining the bespoke flexibility to configure the cell to the application and the modularity required to add to existing lines.

An evaluation of the application then provides a concept.

Evaluation Process - How does it work? Define the application - provide samples and data.

Evaluate the application - from samples and data.

Offer solution to the customer using a standard Multiflex cell configured to the suit the application.

IF 3 = OK - GOTO 4.

ELSE GOTO 3 with revision.

Agree contract.

Configure the 'Multiflex' to the application.

ACI offer a standard cell which if required will adhere to the SMEMA 1.2 standards (SMEMA - Surface Mount Equipment Manufacturers Association (SMEMA 1.2 - Mechanical Equipment Interface Standards).

The base plate inside the cell is machined to suit either a semi-automatic or fully-automatic loading system and employs an OEM SCARA robot arm providing accurate positioning and repeatability of 0.020mm.

The 4-6 axis robotic arm is able to deal with all automated applications that the 'Multiflex' is offering to provide the following.

* Selective soldering.

* Selective cleaning (using a revolutionary two part carbon dioxide snow jet cleaning system, see CO2 Cleaning below).

* Dispensing of adhesives or other fluids that require a repeatable dosage.

* Mini-wave soldering.

* Bending.

* Assembly.

* Micro-assembly.

* Optical inspection.

You can configure an entire automated production line using Multiflex cells configured to each production step therefore ensuring integration and line support from a single provider, whilst maintaining the option of support direct from a number of agents and OEM suppliers.

Or the unit can be configured as a semi-automatic tool, with two manual I/O ports for maximum throughput.

The Multiflex can be the first building block in a new production line that can be added to later, or added to an existing production line.

* The essence of continued support - ACI-ecotec do not claim to be the lowest cost option that you will find, but they do aim to remain competitive and claim highly dependable continued support from experienced designers, engineers and technicians.

The existing customer base believes this to be the most important cost of all.

* Entrance into the UK - recently Gateway Design, a robotics and automation consultancy and design company based in Devon have signed up to an exclusive UK agency for ACI-ecotec.

Michael Gadd CEng of Gateway Design said: "We are always looking for new projects, this keeps engineering alive.

I am really looking forward to the future bringing ACI-ecotec and Co KG to the UK.

I have spent much time working with German engineers which in my opinion have some of the best in the world.

Just look around the next time you are driving.

I am looking forward with ACI-ecotec to new challenges, so if you have something that has not been done before, or perhaps you just need to chat about an idea, then I would like to talk to you.".
http://www.manufacturingtalk.com/news/gaw/gaw100.html