Viktor Takacs just published the second part of a series on his automation platform, which he call ActoSenso Platform. This second post of a series discussed about some of the nodes that can be used in ActoSenso Platform:
ActoSenso Nodes are small hardware devices that are the “eyes”, “ears” and “hands” of the ActoSenso Platform. They are the interface between the real physical world and the computer that ultimately does the home automation.
ActoSenso Nodes are normally designed for a particular simple task (like switch on or off something when the server so instructs it), but it is possible to create more complex ActoSenso Nodes as well, that perform complex calculations and/or operations. It is also possible to make an ActoSenso Node so powerful that no ActoSenso Server is needed. Of course, in this case some features (of an ActoSenso Server) will not be available, because of the hardware limitations of the chips used ActoSenso Nodes. Later, I will show some examples of ActoSenso Nodes for standalone operation as well as networked operation.
If you missed the first post, check out the automation project – system overview here.