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Wifi has two fatal flaws with its radio: too expensive and too power hungry. It's totally impractical for a sleeping device since you'd have to have a car battery to keep it running. For an always awake device like a light switch, you still have the cost issue, but the power from the radio can...

The 18 gauge wire jumpers the mechanical switch. The jumper ensures that the electronic switch is always powered regardless of the position of the mechanical 3 way switch, but the electronic switch can still sense the position of the mechanical switch. You should be able to add the jumper in...

Z-Wave is certainly capable of handling this kind of device. In fact, there's been a lot of talk about it recently in the Z-Wave community. See http://zwaveworld.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=306 and http://www.z-wavealliance.org/modules/iaCM...hp?id=332398592