Z-Wave Long Range and its mile-long capabilities will arrive next year
arstechnica.com
Few homes will need it, but the (literal) edge cases are quite intriguing.
  • Starfighter@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
    21·
    4 days ago

    Mostly its really fucking expensive. Usual applications are central control of heating and window blinds in large office buildings.

    Part of what drives the price is that ideally it’s all hard wired.

    • bangsnooter@lemmy.zipEnglish
      3·
      4 days ago

      I’m still confused as to what the product is, that just sounds like commercial Home Assistant. What is hardwired? Some knx device similar to a Shelly?

      • peregus@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        3 days ago

        It’s a buildings automation standard. The products that implement it are usually expensive

      • turmacar@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        3 days ago

        Maybe commercial MQTT? From the wiki it seems like mostly an intermediary protocol to get disparate things working on the same system. Their site is pure marketing garbage for explaining anything about it though.