WayneW said:
So was that an ad for SmartHome or Z-Wave?
Both actually. At least there were quotes from SmartHome, Zensys as well as Intermatic. I was also interviewed and quoted and maybe I can give a little background on what the article was trying to accomplish.
The author did not have a great deal of experience with HA technologies and was trying to write about technologies that might be appropriate for the DIY user. The ZigBee alliance has done an excellent job of convincing the world at large that HA is ZigBee is HA. The other misconception floating around is that the only possible way to do HA is wireless and in that case the two possibilities are ZigBee and Z-Wave.
I was interviewed because WTRS had just published a market report quantifying the addressable market for HA devices. During the interview I tried to talk about the differences between ZigBee/IEEE802.15.4, INSTEON, Z-Wave and UPB plus how adoption of these technololgies seemed to be shaping up.
For the record, we cover wireless technologies and don't really follow UPB that closely and I tell interviewers that anything I say about UPB needs a liberal application of salt.
I think that one of the mistakes the author made was to confuse the difference between smarthome.com the online catalog company with Smarthome Technology the developer of INSTEON. The article was supposed to cover technologies and products not the sales channels.
Some other comments:
I wasn't exactly misquoted however I would never say something like "smoking gun killer app" and the numbers attributed to me and to WTRS were from another company's report.
I wasn't too impressed with the product review. I thought the low WAF shown was pretty funny.
Things like RadioRA, hardwired solutions ands so on, weren't covered since they are pretty far from what a DIYer is likely to buy.
Feel free to flame me or follow up as you see fit.
George West
www.wtrs.net
www.wtrs.net/newsletter.htm - Interviews with various comapnies