Node Zero Participant Apparently it was causing too much confusion with a 3rd party retailer having the .com domain so they have been given a new domain name and the lw.com site will eventually be just for the Web Manager and links to these 3rd party retailers. I see they have a new logo too as well as JSJS changing name, seems to be just the new directors getting things straightened out and nothing to worry about. From what i read on the share BBs the AGM was very upbeat with lots of enthusiasm towards integration with all the devices and appliances in the home. In fact heres a copy and paste from the BB for anyone whos interested:- Great AGM today. (Have stopped for lunch in service station on the way home)
Met Mike Lord, John Sherman, and several othersand having met & talked to them feel very confident of how JSJS Designs (now LightwaveRF Plc (LWRF, I think the ticker will be)).
To sum up though... all VERY positive, and anyone in now is in at the start of some great things! Mike and John S kindly talked us through the strategy for future development... I didnt write it all down, so will say what I can remember.
The name change/ board change all make huge sense, as it is in line with their focus on expanding and developing the products to reach into every part of the home,also in conjunction with other companies' existing household products (like that music system someone linked to a while back).basically, the more items in the house that have the LightwaveRF chip/board in, the more that can be controlled from one point... some of the suggestions were so cool!
The Light show Megaman attended (was it yesterday ? in Germany?) proved very popular, and the LightwaveRF section had people 4 deep interested in the products.
Megaman doing V. Good job of getting products out there, and will, for now) be concentrating on lighting products abroad (7 main ones to start with) The hope is, once folk have the lighting, theyll come back for the rest! They are also looking to take this to other countries worldwide, eg Canada, US and some others (they did name three more they are looking into just now, but i forgot to write them down) and will looking to find other big distributors to cover these countries. Now that a company as large as Megaman are on board, they are finding that other companies have more confidence they aren't a fly-by-night company, and are out of financial problems and are therefore more enthusiastic to join the gravy-train (to mix metaphors :-) )
Warwick Uni testing going well very useful exercise- and is being expanded further. Energy savings have been shown to be between 25 & 40% already (for a university that size is more than 1M savings p.a), so the cost of installation is quickly recovered.
Work is going into developing a universal web-based site to supercede having many different Apps for different platforms, so that it will fit any gadget/ screen that has access to the Internet, and so customers can be in touch with their home/the RF system they control from anywhere. They are aiming at making it smart, beautiful, intuitive...
Development will also go into useful data mining (we talked about whether it was intrusive or not, and everyone who took part in the Warwick Uni trial would rather be part of it, and agreed it was not intrusive at all, since the information is not particular to individuals) the information then being available to, for example, utility companies to help them plan and direct energy most usefully.
Now that they can concentrate on what they're good at, they can develop the company to cover a wider range than any others are offering.
I think there was lots more, but that's enough for now. Suffice to say, I would be happy to chuck money at this now, fully confident they have tightened up how they are working, and that this is the transition from a small company that was struggling to take a dream forward into a medium-sized, more disciplined, company with a big - no, potentially huge - future!!
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