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An RF plug that comunicate to a dongle that sits on a usb port of a broadband hub... Cmon... How much standarts a monstruosity like this need to work? IF it work...
What we really need is IP controlled home appliances, and even better, thru power-line networks. How the hell nobody though about that yet? You simple plug it on the power outlet, plug yout 'home automation server' on the power outlet and VOILA! Home automation on the fly... after configuring everything, you plug your 'home automation server' to some WAN access (say your broadband router), access it thru the WEB... it's done.
All we need is power-line network controllable home appliances... can the industry please give us that?
I do agree with the comments above and ask... why has it got to be a broadband router at all??? Mine died one month ago... since then it's been replaced by a low-power pc (not an atom, a celeron itx box) with an additional lan card. When the drive spins down, total wattage is around 25W..... Since it's got 6 usb ports, only god knows what I can plug and monitor WITHOUT any need of Intamac or Macintel hardware.
And since it's all done with ye good ole XP, I don't need burglars to be insecure....! :-)
P.S - Why are basic concepts made to sound so difficult? Why does the camera struggle to be seen remotely? Why does it have to be routed through Intamac's servers? I can route anything I want anywhere without 3rd party servers. None of this stuff is difficult guys!
This article reads as though someone at Intamac has written it, or at least paid someone to write it. It sounds too much like a company trying to sell a revolutionary technology that in fact isn't. Big deal, we have remote CCTV systems now. We can control home systems remotely. We can put sensors on doors etc and have the data fed to a computer to analyse later. It can all be done now, fairly inexpensively with bits from Maplin or any other electronics retailer (or the net!). Sure this system bundles it all together in one box from one company. But is that a good thing? I dunno.