[Asterisk-Users] The killer app for Asterisk in corporate deployment

[Dean Collins]

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 at lists.digium.com [mailto:asterisk-users-
> bounces at lists.digium.com] On Behalf Of peter webier
> Sent: Thursday, 4 August 2005 9:31 AM
> To: asterisk-users at 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?
> 
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