Must…buy… Z-Wave
by on May.22, 2009, under Home Automation, insteon, lighting control, zwave
I should let people know that for technologies associated with automation I’m a big fan of most of the new items produced from places like SmartLabs and the Zigbee Alliance.
What’s interesting is that these latest products produced are not so much big a deal as they claim due to the fact that these things was accomplished other ways utilizing existing readily available devices but now they are accessible as a prebuilt kit. One other thing is you won’t need a complicated circuit diagram to make it work.
Certainly there exist quite a few likenesses with the vendor offerings. As an example, almost none of the technologies use handheld remote items as message relays, and they all use wireless communication in some manner. When investigating further though, it becomes more complicated – I’m not going to endeavor to express it here and make a bunch of errors, a site like this ISY-99i forum has pages dedicated to showcasing some of the contrast points.
That said if anyone has any legal ideas relating to methods to earn enough dough to sponsor my latest habit, comment below and let me know!
