The folks at OpenRemote just announced that they have aquired the full rights to the iKNX iPhone home automation application. In case you aren't familiar with OpenRemote, it's a group of volunteers who are working on a high-end open source home automation platform.

We are pleased to announce that OpenRemote has acquired exclusive rights to iKNX, the iPhone product from Jörg Falkenberg. Jörg will be joining our community as iKNX lead.

iKNX offers an iPhone stack that talks to a KNX install over IP network. We will open source the KNX/IP stack for Apple (for those in the know – like Calimero, but in Objective-C instead of Java) and work to integrate its UI elements with ours. We will invest in its future.

For those that don't know KNX, it is European hardware found in industrial and commercial settings as well as high-end homes. The Chinese also licensed KNX for the Olympics. With iKNX we offer software as well as services to deploy iPhone UIs in the field with existing KNX installations.

The product is currently available at the app-store.

For more information on what OpenRemote is all about, check out the OpenRemote.org website.