ST widens its product offerings for smart home electronics

To serve the interesting market of smart home electronics which includes home automation, home entertainment systems and smart management of home appliances and systems, leading chipmaker STMicroelectronics is offering range of products covering both silicon chips and software. ST has introduced new Smart Home software platform for modern set-top boxes, which can manage home energy, automation and security systems in addition to providing access to digital multimedia content throughout the home. ST is offering the Smart Home software pre-integrated on set-top box and home-gateway SoCs such as the STiG105 and STiG112, which are dedicated smart home devices, as well as multimedia gateway devices such as the popular STiH416 (‘Orly’) and the newly introduced Monaco family (STiH407, STiH410, STiH412). ST is encouraging consumer electronics companies to design systems using their products to manage energy, design home surveillance system, and home automation system. “Adding support for smart-home applications and services is a natural progression for the set-top box, enabling operators to deliver innovative new services and delivering benefits such as a consistent user experience to subscribers,” said Gian Luca Bertino, Executive Vice President, General Manager Digital Convergence Group, STMicroelectronics. “The combination of our Smart Home software platform and our larg...