 Browsing through the back of Electronic House magazine, I noticed a small ad for Proliphix's Thermostat with an embedded web server.
Looks darn cool.
On it's backlit screen, it can display your zip code's weather
forecast, and ski or marine conditions based on internet data feeds.
Add a few remote temperature sensors and you can heat or cool your home
on the averaged temperature, instead of only the temperature in the
hallway.
The NT1x0 series will send its status via email, log trends and even power itself over POE - power over ethernet.
I'd love to find out how expensive these are... I'm itching to get back into home automation for our condo in Mill Race.
(08/20/2004 Update: Peter Rojas at Engadget picked up my article.
There are some interesting comments as well. I also got a very
prompt replay from Walter Dray, the president of Proliphix who said
that they were looking at introducing these in early to mid October and
are expected to run between $300 - $400. He also mentioned that
there is a programming interface that runs directly over IP to talk to
the UDP application. Cool stuff.
8/20/2004 Update: The Engadget article was picked up by Slashdot. Whoa.)
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