Z-Wave

Update 2011-06-25 A lot of people still contact me about this project. I received this mail today, just in case you’re getting interested by the project, you should know that it will die pretty soon: Dear PowerMeter User, We first launched Google PowerMeter as a Google.org project to raise awareness about the importance of giving people access to their energy information. Since our launch, there’s been more attention brought to this issue, and we’re excited that PowerMeter has helped demonstrate the importance of access to energy data. However, our efforts have not scaled as quickly as we would have liked, so we have decided to retire PowerMeter. ...

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). ...