You will need a sensor of some sort, then enough brains to do something
when the sensor sees a situation that needs a response. Then you will
need to control a device somewhere (which could in theory just be
another sensor).
The Arduino is an excellent tool for doing this type of work. Or even a
Raspberry Pi. Both have input/output pins, and code can be written to
utilize those pins. Raspberry Pi runs a full Linux environment, with
USB/HDMI/Ethernet built into it.
If you mean you need a simple management tool that can send TCP/IP based
commands to devices on the network, both the above are still a
candidate, though the Arduino will need an Ethernet shield. But any
laptop then can also act in this capacity. There is plenty of software
that will help manage this. Maybe look into SCADA systems for Linux?
In which case the version of Linux is almost irrelevant.
But I suspect I may have missed the specifics you are looking for...
Shawn
On 13-02-18 09:18 PM, [email protected] wrote:
I work with friends very close to the bleeding edge in architecture and
building technology.
One of the things we want to do is control equipement. This will entail
monitering power consumption and turning on and off a switch.
This should likely run over a USB and Wifi i/f (both) With IPV6 we have
enough addresses for every molecual near this part of the milky way. But the
thing is this will be electrical so we can send a signal over the wires too.
The electronics needs to be dirt cheap and the system IMHO should be OSS. I
know this is a linux group but many of us use OpenBSD as well. But anything
should be cross platform.
Does anyone know if something like this is in motion? If not would anyone want
to put some motion into someting like this?
I believe a chip which can do this can be manufactured for under $1.00
In about 1997 I hired a good friend by the name of Tom Rosack who is a Polish
EE and we built a TDR. (Time Division Reflectometer) and we shot Telus'
lines... and found the issues. The parts cost less than $20 dollars. We used
an AAA batery and a dual channel osciloscope.
The engineering cost a lot more than $20 dollars.
But we were successful.
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