Sensor Area Networks (SANs)

[davidbrady]

Thanks Joe,

I really appreciate the interest. By all means let's look around to see what's already out there. I don't want to reinvent the wheel (remember, I'm lazy)!

I need to look at his work more closely. Immediately what I notice is that it seems he ran out of steam almost exactly a year ago. He had a lot of good ideas but there's a lot of empty pages and links. Since he did his work the world seems to have exploded with XBee and alternative single board computers with a lot of open source and community support available. It's this excitement and groundswell for Arduino/rPi/XBee/ZigBee that's sweeping me along. Other technologies look good but I don't want to swim upstream, which we very well might be doing by adopting CAN as he did. I'm very reluctant to stretch wires, but extremely excited to add cloud management, monitoring, and control. In any case, we can definitely learn from everyone's experience - I'll look more closely at his solution.

Thanks!