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Perceptive Automation and Ovolab team up to deliver remote-controlled home automation solution.

Torino, Italy (Europe) and Dallas, TX (USA) - December 10, 2003 - Perceptive Automation and Ovolab today announced the immediate availability of a set of scripts for integrating Indigo, Perceptive Automation's intelligent home control and automation server, with Phlink, Ovolab's versatile telephony product for Mac OS X.

Using Indigo together with Ovolab Phlink, you can have total control over your house from anywhere in the world. Warm up the hot tub from your mobile phone, turn off the lights, and more - thanks to this breakthrough combination of technology from Ovolab and Perceptive Automation.

Ovolab Phlink automatically answers telephone calls and identifies the caller based on Caller ID. The caller can interact with Ovolab Phlink by pressing touch tone key sequences, which in turn trigger actions in Indigo. Indigo then communicates with devices throughout the house by using X10 technology.

Indigo dynamically builds and speaks a menu of options over the phone, based on your home control setup. Through this menu, you can turn devices on and off, brighten or dim lights, and hear the status of devices, including the brightness of light and lamp modules. Additionally, the dynamic menu allows you to execute Indigo Action Groups, which are macro sequences of home control actions such as lighting scenes.

Ovolab Phlink can allow access to Indigo functions to specific callers only, or it can require the caller to enter a password for additional security. To other callers, it can serve as an intelligent information center and as a powerful answering machine.

For more information, visit http://www.perceptiveautomation.com/indigo/phlink_info.html .

 
Pricing and Availability
Indigo is available now for USD 89.95 through the Perceptive Automation web site (http://www.perceptiveautomation.com). Also available online is a fully functional 30 day trial copy of Indigo.

Ovolab Phlink is available now for the special introductory price of EUR 99.95 plus shipping through the Ovolab web site (http://www.ovolab.com/phlink/). Ovolab Phlink will soon be available in retail stores for a suggested retail price of EUR 129.95.

 
About Perceptive Automation
Perceptive Automation was founded in 2002 to create home control and networking solutions. Perceptive Automation's mission is to provide intuitive home control applications that tie multiple protocols, interfaces and technologies together.

About Ovolab
Founded in 2002, Ovolab is based in Torino, Italy. More than ten years of experience in Mac software development to create the software that enhances your creativity. Because creativity is the beginning of it all.

 
Perceptive Automation and Indigo are trademarks of Perceptive Automation, LLC. Ovolab and Phlink are trademarks of Ovolab s.a.s.. Other company and product names may be trademarks of their respective owners.