Z-Wave comes to Europe
When I was a student, I worked on a little home automation project, it was part of a partnership between my school as the company. We were 5 five on the project and I was doing the core gateway. It was relying on the OSGi framework, I built some bundles (the OSGi way). AND… The most frustration thing we encountered is that we couldn’t find by that time any cheap and reliable home automation system. I did a lot of searches but the only cheap and reliable systems (and more specifically protocols) that we could find where Z-Wave and Insteon. But both of them where only available in the US and couldn’t be used in France because of the electrical system (110V 60Hz instead of 220V 50Hz here) and the unlicensed radio frequencies (443 Mhz instead of 800 Mhz here). ...