Ember’s mission is to be the leading provider of wireless sensor and control network technologies that enable dramatic energy efficiency improvements for businesses, homes, and the utilities that serve them. As part of this effort, Ember will develop and maintain strong relationships with our customers, suppliers and employees.
Ember’s ZigBee wireless networking systems - chips, software and tools - enable Energy Technologies - enertech – help consumers, businesses and utilities to better manage energy resources, save cost and preserve the environment. This technology holds enormous promise to positively impact the environment and management of energy demand, while improving comfort and safety in living and working environments.
Ember offers the industry’s most advanced, complete and integrated ZigBee system – including chips, software and tools. ZigBee is an open industry standard backed by a global alliance of over 300 companies delivering cost-effective, wireless networking solutions that support low power operation, security and reliability.
Ember’s low-power networking technology was conceived in MIT’s Media Labs in the late 1990s. Today, Ember is the acknowledged market leader serving a vast majority of OEMs developing ZigBee enabled products in the Building Automation, Integrated Home Automation and Smart Metering segments. Ember’s leadership stems from the following:
Quality of the Ember Team
The people in Ember are its biggest asset. Ember has assembled not just a world class team, but some of the people who have worked on the mesh networking technology since the time it was first conceived. Across the Atlantic in 2004, Ember acquired RF technology and an IC development team from Cambridge Consultants, one of the world’s top developers of wireless applications, integrated circuits and intellectual property for low-powered, embedded radios. Together, we believe, the Ember software and hardware groups comprise the most skilled and experienced team, building low-power, wireless networking semiconductor systems, in the world.
Mature Technology
More than a decade of R&D and real-world experience helping customers around the world bring diverse products to market have enabled Ember to finely tune its product offerings. The result is the most mature, robust, reliable and scalable ZigBee platforms.
Best-in-Class Products
Ember’s solutions integrate high performance 2.4 GHz low power wireless semiconductors, the most reliable, scalable and advanced ZigBee software, and best in class development tools. Ember’s products have set the benchmark for product performance, and offer unmatched flexibility to OEMs developing ZigBee enabled products. Ember’s 2nd generation semiconductors, 3rd generation networking software, and industry leading development and debugging tools help deliver on the true promise of large, low-power networks. Also, Ember has deployed the largest test network infrastructure in the industry, which is used for rigorous testing of Ember products in diverse configurations and conditions prior to release.
Customer Focus
Ember recognizes that our success is contingent upon our customers' success. Ember delivers solutions that enable customers to focus their energies on developing applications, secure in the knowledge that they have a robust and reliable networking platform. This is backed up with a passionate and responsive organization to ensure quick resolution of any issues. As a result, Ember boasts a world class portfolio of customers including Siemens, Hitachi, Philips, Control4, Iton, Cellnet, Nuri Telecom and many others, delivering Ember enabled ZigBee products. Ember takes great pride in the results of a recent survey in which every responding customer indicated their willingness to recommend Ember to colleagues and industry associates.
Commitment to Standards
Since its inception, Ember’s has been committed to open industry standards. Standards enable OEMs and end customers the long term benefits of multiple vendors supplying interoperable products. Ember’s commitment is reflected by its contributions to the standards shaping the low power wireless market, including IEEE 802.15.4 and ZigBee. But beyond just helping to establish the standards, Ember has been a leader in bringing 802.15.4 and ZigBee out of the labs and into the real world. Ember was the first company with IEEE-compliant chips and ZigBee compliant software in volume production, with customers implementing commercial deployments. Ember is a promoter and member on the Board of Directors of the ZigBee Alliance, and the Ember product platform serves as a “Golden Unit” for IEEE 802.15.4 and ZigBee compliance and interoperability testing.
There is significant momentum in Ember’s focus markets – Building Automation, Integrated Home Automation and Smart Metering. Low power, wireless mesh networking technology is ideally suited to address the urgent need for energy demand management and conservation, coupled with people’s desire for more security, safety and comfort in buildings and homes. With a world class team, a mature and reliable technology, and best in class products, Ember is at the forefront and eager to lead the market into the future.
