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On Mon, Feb 18, 2013 at 8:29 PM, Shawn <[email protected]> wrote: > 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. >> >> >> >> >> ______________________________**_________________ >> clug-talk mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://clug.ca/mailman/**listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca<http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca> >> Mailing List Guidelines >> (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.**php<http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php> >> ) >> **Please remove these lines when replying >> >> > ______________________________**_________________ > clug-talk mailing list > [email protected] > http://clug.ca/mailman/**listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca<http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca> > Mailing List Guidelines > (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.**php<http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php> > ) > **Please remove these lines when replying >
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