tmbrown97
Senior Member
For anyone who's worked with or looked at Ubiquiti equipment, they're an interesting company... they're very small (80-ish employees I believe) and they don't have any pre-sales support or much for post-sales; they don't employ technical writers, or all the people that help "sell" their products... what they have are a lot of great engineers. They have already destroyed the Microwave Communications market by offering radios that can cover miles at high speeds for a couple hundred bucks, where links could've been in the 10's of thousands previously. Then they jumped into the Camera market not too long ago; and while their camera offerings haven't evolved much yet, they do offer megapixel IP cams for under $100 - and more importantly, they give the NVR away for free.
Now they're apparently getting into the Automation / Machine Communications world with the announcement of mFi. Details are just coming out, but it appears they have several options for monitoring temperature, door/windows, occupancy, and power usage/control (with 1, 4 and 8 outlet sensors/control points) and the whole system runs over IP. No word yet on pricing; rumor speculates July we'll see some things ship - who knows from there.
Given their more consumer-oriented pricing, this could turn into a really interesting automation product to watch - the possibilities will be limitless! As long as they don't choke in the distribution process like they normally do (to be fair, the worldwide demand for their products, because of their power and low cost, makes it very hard for them to keep up with Manufacturing).
http://www.ubnt.com/mfi
Link to the front-page news story: http://cocoontech.com/portal/articles/news/36-breaking-news/676-ubiquiti-entering-the-automation-world
Now they're apparently getting into the Automation / Machine Communications world with the announcement of mFi. Details are just coming out, but it appears they have several options for monitoring temperature, door/windows, occupancy, and power usage/control (with 1, 4 and 8 outlet sensors/control points) and the whole system runs over IP. No word yet on pricing; rumor speculates July we'll see some things ship - who knows from there.
Given their more consumer-oriented pricing, this could turn into a really interesting automation product to watch - the possibilities will be limitless! As long as they don't choke in the distribution process like they normally do (to be fair, the worldwide demand for their products, because of their power and low cost, makes it very hard for them to keep up with Manufacturing).
http://www.ubnt.com/mfi
Link to the front-page news story: http://cocoontech.com/portal/articles/news/36-breaking-news/676-ubiquiti-entering-the-automation-world