2009 is the year of Z-Wave
by on Jul.05, 2009, under Home Automation, insteon, lighting control, zwave
Just like many technologies associated with home of the future type stuff I really like any of the recent releases developed through vendors such as SmartLabs and SmartLabs.
Some of the new devices developed aren’t actually as big a deal as they claim due to the fact that this stuff could all be done other ways utilizing available off-the-shelf stuff but now they’re presented as a prebuilt kit. Another perk is these kits don’t require a complicated circuit diagram to understand how it works.
There are a lot of resemblances between the various technologies. One such similarity, none of the offerings use cordless items as RF repeaters, and all the items use wireless communication in some capacity. Digging deeper however, it gets interesting – I could struggle to outline it here and make a bunch of errors, this place Insteon has good discussions highlighting some of the discrepancies.
That said anybody having good ideas on ways for me to bring in some funds to sponsor our latest addiction, kindly help me out!
