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Jul 30
2008
Marc Fleury and Home Automation
by Nat Torkington | @gnat | comments: 4
Marc Fleury of JBoss fame blogged about his new project, OpenRemote. OpenRemote aims to build open source middleware, UI, and hardware for home automation while working hard on interoperability with all existing protocols and systems. Also working on the project is Mark Spencer, the creator of Asterisk.
At O'Reilly we're watching the move of computing from desktop computers out into the world, and this encompasses everything from the iPhone-inspired new mobile web to the Nike+ and, yes, home automation. The interest of alphageeks like Mark and Marc (not to be confused with Marky Mark) is a significant sign. Other items of proliferated computing interest seen lately: the projects that everyone recreates when they get into hardware hacking, Zigbee's killer app may well turn out to be smart power meters, detecting ill elders via abnormal power use, and a clever system using hi-res weight as unique primary key. And don't forget IBM "Master Inventor" Andy Stanford-Clark's house, which Twitters its energy use among other things.
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In the case of OpenRemote, Mark Fleury may want to check out RF4CE which is a new consortium to promote a standard remote control wireless protocol based on IEEE 802.15.4 (the same radio used by Zigbee) and is being backed by some big players like Sony, Philips, Samsung, and Panasonic... www.rf4ce.org
In the case of Zigbee, it looks like the biggest market uptake is the energy utilities (believe it or not) since there is potential legislation to convert the existing electricity grid into a smart grid. They are mostly using the Zigbee Smart Energy Profile.
There are also other profiles such as the already released Home Automation Profile, and the soon to be released Security and Safety Profile (medical devices), Building Automation Profile, and Wireless Sensor Network Profile.
For those that are interested in Zigbee, I'm keeping track of the latest events in the industry for Zigbee and other Wireless Sensor Network Protocols via my news feed on my blog. Most of my personal blog contents relates to the development progress of my open source Zigbee protocol stack.
Akiba
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i usually dont write comments or read blogs but this one is different. i read it from top to bottom, && i really like the content of this blog, so do keep posting and keep the good work up.
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Assuming all connections go through the cloud is simplifying in a number of ways. I'm curious what protocol they use for low latency callbacks. BOSH? XMPP? A cursory look hasn't yet told me. Very interesting. Thanks for pointing it out.
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Leo Dirac [2008-07-30 05:58 PM]
Some earlier attempts at solving this problem like UPnP used the assumption that all relevant devices would be on a LAN to aid with discovery and security. But that prevents you from using your phone as a remote, which is clearly a very interesting scenario. Assuming all connections go through the cloud is simplifying in a number of ways. I'm curious what protocol they use for low latency callbacks. BOSH? XMPP? A cursory look hasn't yet told me. Very interesting. Thanks for pointing it out.