I love X10
by on Jun.12, 2009, under Home Automation, insteon, lighting control, zwave
When dealing with devices considered to be home of the future type stuff I watch pretty carefully any recent items developed through consortiums like Power Control Systems and Home Automation Inc.
The thing is the new items developed are not actually as revolutionary as evolutionary due to the fact that these things could all be accomplished through other means using existing basic component parts but nowadays they’re presented as a prebuilt set. Another perk is you won’t need fluke testers around the house to get it working.
Looking closer we see many parallels among the product lineups. As an example, few of them use portable devices as RF relays, and almost all products use advanced RF in some way. Digging deeper still, it becomes interesting – I’d rather not attempt to portray it now and make mistakes, this site Insteon Controller has pages dedicated to evaluating some of the discrepancies.
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