I'm fortunate enough to work in a job where we get to test a lot of new products - lots of fun. This came across my group a couple of weeks ago. A company has an ethernet (wired and wireless) gateway with a USB port with an Aeon Labs Z-Stick Lite sticking out. They also sent a big box of zwave devices - yale lock, thermostat, motion, temperature, door/window, camera, etc. Whats interesting is that this company is targeting businesses for automation. Our company would be reselling.
The gateway really caught my eye. You just plug it into your network or connect it wirelessly and the Z-Stick connects with the on-board USB. No Serial connection. This seems to be a better approach as it appears that the serial stack has been removed - replaced with Ethernet->Gateway->ZStick.
I'm in the process of automating my office with this stuff
Here are some pics:
The gateway really caught my eye. You just plug it into your network or connect it wirelessly and the Z-Stick connects with the on-board USB. No Serial connection. This seems to be a better approach as it appears that the serial stack has been removed - replaced with Ethernet->Gateway->ZStick.
I'm in the process of automating my office with this stuff
Here are some pics:
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