I've known about this little gem for a while, but not it's becoming public knowledge. Apparently ready to sell by this summer, the Eaton HomeHeartbeat will be the first standards-based home sensor-and-communications system.
The exciting part of this is that it's based on the Zigbee standard, allowing innovative consumer product companies to come up with their own solutions to integrate with the system.
It will be interesting to see if HomeHeartbeat takes off. Compared to previous forays into the home automation space, it's relatively inexpensive, has an easy-to-use User Interface, and uses standard-based communications to interact with the home.
Yes, I'm on the waiting list for the HomeHeartbeat =)
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