Summary of the 14th ECHONET Forum On July 14 (Thu), 2005, the 14th ECHONET Forum was held at KOGAKUIN University in Shinjuku-ku district, Tokyo. About 130 individuals from 59 member companies and government officials participated and had active exchange of opinions and information. In this Forum, main items were three invited speeches , 2005 Action plan, Investigation repot in the USA, Korea Home Network Global Summit 2005 report, International standardization proposal activity, and New homepage for ECHONET compliant products and exhibition of ECHONET / home network poducts by Member Companies.

The following items were presented:

1. 2005 Action plan 2. Investigation repot in the USA (Connections 2005) 3. Korea Home Network Global Summit 2005 report 4. International standardization proposal activity 5. New homepage for ECHONET compliant products -Introductions or enquiries of products and technologies of Member companies - 6. Invited Speech 1: Positioning of networked home appliance in the Ubiquitous Network Society 7. Invited Speech 2-1: IGRS - A Bridge to 3C Convergence 8. Trend of Korea Home Network 9. Technical speeches by member companies

* 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.