About Us

By 2010, the Internet will have trillions of users it doesn't have today. Most of them will not be human beings!

At Universal Devices, we have embraced this new "intelligent devices" world by developing the first embedded/distributed solution which Web Services (WSD and UPnP) enables "dumb" devices in a matter of days. In order to take full advantage of this new world, our solutions run on small embedded systems, accessible through a regular internet browser, and thus completely eliminate the necessity for expensive central servers and/or client software installation and configuration.

Administration of multiple devices on the network is a daunting task and, as such, our revolutionary browser based GUI (Graphical User Interface) empowers the users to logically group any number of devices on the network and administer logical groups rather than each individual device.

To maximize the benefits of Web-Services enablement, our solution is integrated with a rich set of secure services (compliant with UPnP Device Security 1.0 and/or SSL) such as remote administration, complex scheduling, notifications, reporting, device learning, and sense and respond.

Our revolutionary D2D protocol (Device-2-Device) enables these intelligent devices to communicate with each other, learn from their surroundings, and act upon the lifecycle events of one another. All and all through our GUI and without the need for programming.

History

The Universal Devices' story began, in the early 2000, when a group of hardware and software engineers started experimenting with industrial and home automation tools and applications all of which exhibited the same flaw: expensive and centralized servers with proprietary software and protocols communicating with dumb devices.

The prevailing telephone-switch-box paradigm (intelligence without), where all requests are intercepted, routed, transformed, and then communicated to each device did not fit well with the essence of distributed computing and the internet: the devices should be endowed with their own intelligence and thus enable direct communications with each other, with human beings, or with other systems. And thus started the Universal Devices' endeavors in the realm of intelligent devices.

Seven years later, Universal Devices is the only company in the world which offers integrated and turnkey solutions and services for making devices not only Web-Services (WSD and UPnP) enabled but intelligent within.