there is not much standardization on the hardware end, why would you need it. the programming and the communications protocol is what needs to be standard, the hardware that a manufacturer uses to make it work is not really that important.
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"Experience: that most brutal of teachers. but you learn, my God do you learn." - C.S. Lewis
To claim that Siemens is an unreliable manufacturer is abstruse and unwarranted.
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Statement joined together makes different sense, Actually companies in list are good companies maintain some standard, If the same is known then it is good .