Several companies, including Honeywell, Invensys, Mitsubishi Electric, Motorola and Philips Electronics have announced an alliance to create a new wireless standard for low power home automation devices.
Although I agree that it’s worth investigating new wireless technologies, even new standards, I’m a little concerned about their motivation. In the Cnet article, ZigBee to keep network market buzzing, there seems to be the suggestion that the major motivating reason is power. Devices could run off two AA batteries for several years.
Devices are due late in 2004. Haven’t they heard of rechargeables? You’d also think we’d have better power sources by then.
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