Summary of the 11th ECHONET Forum On February 20 (Fri), 2003, the 11th ECHONET Forum was held at KOGAKUIN Univ in Shinjuku-ku district, Tokyo. About 163 individuals from 76 member companies and government officials participated and had active exchange of opinions and information. In this Forum, main items were Overseas Investigation Report, Interconnection Demonstration between ECHONET Home Appliances and technologies by member companies.

The following items were presented:

1. Overseas Investigation Report on Net-atHome2003 2. Research on Service Scenarios by ECHONET 3. Revised Points in the ECHONET Specification (Ver.3.20) 4. Current Activities of International Standardization 5. Current status of ECHONET products and technologies by member companies

The other

* in addition to the above mentioned items, the exhibition and demonstration of ECHONET products and home network systems were performed by member companies in the Lobby of the lecture place.