TROY Wireless and Axsys Automation Demonstrate “Smart Home”

Reprinted from a TROY Group Inc. press release:

LAS VEGAS–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Nov. 12, 2001–TROY Wireless, a division of TROY Group, Inc. (NASDAQ: TROY) and Scottsdale, Arizona-based Axsys Automation
today are previewing the “Smart Home” of the future at COMDEX 2001 in Las Vegas at the Bluetooth Pavilion. The home automation
demonstration features wireless technologies that empower common household devices. Axsys’ wireless smart home solution enables everyday devices including
lights, blinds, and thermostats to “talk” to each other and perform upon command. COMDEX attendees can experience this miniature smart home and give commands
using a PDA. Wireless communication between the PDA and smart home devices is achieved with TROY Wireless’ WindStack Bluetooth protocol software. Cell
phones, PDA’s and laptops now become the “remote control” of the future for household electronics.

The user can wirelessly “wake up” a smart home, put it to sleep, turn on music, heighten the security system, turn appliances and entertainment systems on and off, as
well as adjusting lighting and atmosphere. The need for a centralized computer is eliminated because every device contains its own intelligence and has the ability
to cooperate and communicate using LonWorks. The smart home also saves money. For example, the technology can turn lights off when there is no one in the
room, resulting in lower electric bills.

Bluetooth, named for the 10th Century Viking king who united Denmark, is a new low-cost radio technology that is designed to eliminate the need for cabling in a
wide range of products, including cellular phones, PCs, headphones, audio equipment, and much more. It has unprecedented industry support, with over 2,000
companies in the Bluetooth Special Interest Group (SIG), including all of the leading players in the telecommunications and computing industry.