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Re: Best home automation standard... The market is still pretty fragmented and a lot of players either do not have much in the way of networking experience or think their proprietary control protocol delivers a marketing benefit. It is also a chicken-n-egg problem. Until home area networks (HAN) become pervasive there is not much marketing incentive to may your widget network capable. Zigbee is starting to gain traction with manufactures. » www.zigbee.org/Standards/ZigBeeH···iew.aspxMay want to take a look at the RF4CE spec. I leave it to creative minds what the acronym means.  » www.zigbee.org/Specifications/Zi···iew.aspx» electronicdesign.com/communicati···d-z-waveMy bet is that some form of RF technology will win the home command and control battle, both home automation and Consumer Electronics, and that energy harvesting will be adopted to power devices like intrusion alarms eliminating the need for batteries or AC power. But that is just my crystal ball -YMMV. /tom |
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 cdruGo ColtsPremium,MVM
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kudos:7 | said by tschmidt:My bet is that some form of RF technology will win the home command and control battle, both home automation and Consumer Electronics Way to go out on a limb there. Are you betting that the sun will rise in the east tomorrow too?
Zigbee, Z-Wave, whatever tomorrow brings...which ever one that you choose one of the other's will be the dominate one (if there ever really is one). X-10 definitely won't be the winner. |
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| said by cdru:Way to go out on a limb there. Are you betting that the sun will rise in the east tomorrow too?
We have had multiple discussions about future proofing homes. I just wanted to make the case that for most stuff unlicensed RF is the preferred medium: not hardwired, not power line, and heaven forbid not IR - remember IRDA. I've strung a lot of LV wiring for my DIY home projects I would much prefer not having to do that.
Hopefully if neither Zigbee or Z-Wave score an outright win bridging between the two will be pretty easy. The most important issue is not the physical layer so much, though that is important, but the device control profiles.
I'm betting heavily on the sun, although the weather here in NH is pretty bad today, so it is unlikely I'll see it tomorrow.
/tom
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