Universal Electronics Inc. (UEI) is a provider of American technology and remote controllers, IoT devices, and home sensors. The company designs, develops, manufactures and delivers good products under the "One For All" brand and as an OEM for other companies in audio video, subscription broadcasting, connected homes, tablets and smart phone market. By 2015, it is expanding its product and technology platform to include home automation, intelligent sensing and security.
UEI global headquarters is located in Santa Ana, California, but has regional offices in Enschede (The Nederlands), Manaus (Brazil), Hong Kong, Bangalore (India), San Mateo and Carlsbad (California), and Twinsburg (Ohio).
By 2014 UEI ranks 80th in Forbes's list of "America's Best Small Company."
Some UEI products using ZigBee technology and UEI are members of the ZigBee Alliance.
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Products
UEI is one of the largest remote controllers in the world, responsible for about 30% of the global market share in home entertainment remotes. Under its Ecolink brand, it also makes home security and automation products such as motion sensors and door/window entry for DIY and professional home security markets and OEMs such as Interlogix (UTC), Honeywell and Tyco. Many control products are manufactured under contract and then sold under the brand name of larger consumer electronics manufacturers such as Sony, Samsung, Panasonic, Toshiba, Daikin, Mitsubishi, Yamaha, and Sharp, as well as North American cable and satellite providers such as Comcast, Rogers , Cox, Shaw, Charter, DIRECTV, and DISH.
UEI makes many products using ZigBee technology, Bluetooth, or Wi-Fi. They are members of the ZigBee Alliance, Bluetooth SIG and Wi-Fi Alliance.
QuickSet
QuickSet is a family of Universal Electronics software products including web services and embedded SDKs to simplify the discovery and management of universal controls and operations in smart homes. The QuickSet solution is a technology widely used in over 400 million devices worldwide including Comcast, Dish Network and DirecTV set-top boxes, televisions from Samsung and Sony, game consoles such as Xbox One, and many leading smartphones, and tablets for enable automatic discovery and control of almost any connected home device.
QuickSet Cloud, part of the QuickSet product family, is actively used by millions of devices every week like Comcast's X1 Platform. The platform is able to automatically find devices through various interfaces such as IP or HDMI based on proprietary fingerprinting algorithms, and control these devices through various protocols such as IR, IP, HDMI-CEC, ZigBee or Bluetooth
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Acquisitions
In February 2009, UEI purchased all Zilog & amp; IP assets associated with the Zilog universal remote control business, including all ROM codes, software, and infrared code databases. Zilog sells these assets for $ 31 million in cash.
In August 2015, UEI strengthened its position in the smart home market by acquiring Ecolink Intelligent Technology, a wireless home security and automation specialist. In May 2017, UEI expanded its smart home offerings by acquiring RCS Technology, a pioneer in smart thermostats and energy management.
Awards
In 2017, the National Television Art Academy & amp; Science awarded UEI a Technology & amp; Engineering Emmy Award for its contribution to "Contextual Voice Navigation for Finding and Interacting with TV Content."
References
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