Crayon Interface

4HomeMedia and Crayon Interface Announce Partnership to Deliver Comprehensive Mobile Access to Leading Home Control and Monitoring System

January 7, 2008

Sunnyvale, CA and Holland, MI - HomeMedia, Inc., a leading provider of home control services for the connected home, and Crayon Interface, Inc., a leader in mobile applications and services, announced this week a formal partnership to deliver additional mobile device access for 4HomeMedia's ControlPoint™ and Portal Server software products.

Through this partnership 4HomeMedia's products will allow homeowners to monitor and control lighting, thermostats, sensors, entertainment systems, media centers and video cameras anytime, anywhere via cell phones and other mobile devices in conjunction with Crayon Interface's Moshi® mobile access solutions platform.

Crayon's Moshi platform provides users remote access to vehicles and homes through intuitive software downloaded to the mobile phone that communicates through an integrated server architecture. Crayon Interface delivers this technology to consumers through partnerships with companies offering products and services in the mobile electronics and digital home industries. "4HomeMedia's software platform is an extremely flexible and scaleable solution for the connected home," stated Kevin Virta, Crayon Interface's Executive Vice President of Business Development. "We are pleased to be partnered with an industry leader and we look forward to working with 4HomeMedia to deliver mobile access to homeowners for a variety of applications focused around safety, security and convenience."

4HomeMedia is fueling the next stage of the broadband services revolution via their innovative "home control services" end-to-end software platform. Beginning with immersive home monitoring and media control, 4HomeMedia provides OEM networking hardware partners and broadband service providers a standards-based solution for monthly for-fee services for the digital home. 4HomeMedia's ControlPoint™ and Portal Server software products allow hardware vendors and service providers to create and deploy compelling, easy-to-use, and profitable new applications and services for the connected home. A single copy of the networked ControlPoint software installed any device on the home network provides whole home coverage - from anywhere and at anytime. Portal Server is a robust broadband application server for the NOC providing scalable and manageable home control services for a broad, mass-market rollout.

"The mobile interface is an important part of our solution for broadband service providers," said Brad Kayton, Chief Operating Officer at 4HomeMedia. "Our partnership with Crayon Interface will help us expand our existing mobile support to include the broadest number of mobile devices as well as offer enhanced features such as the ability to view a frame-accelerated video stream from IP cameras within the home on the cell phone."