[Embedlets-dev] Re: 'Secure Outpost' boards

[Ted K. <tk...@ya...>]

Chris wrote:

>I have some relay boards available. They connect to solenoid driven 
>circuit breakers of the type used in industrial (lighting) control. [snip]


James wrote:

> What we could do is have an 8-bit DIP on one port of the uVM device and 
>read this in as the low byte of the IP address and have a fixed high byte 
>then the we can have each one have a number of relays probably up to 16 
>or something. [snip]


Marc wrote:

>Kelly Smith suggested I join the list, so here I am [...] Glad I'm on 
>this list...some interesting discussions going on! :-)
>
>Kelly's more-or-less convinced me to do a small production run of 1-wire 
>relay boards. Nothing too crazy, some off-the-top-of-my-head specs: - 

Welcome to the group Marc.  We are glad to have you on board!


As for the issue of boards, I think that we have a classic case of “cooperate
on the specification and compete on the implementation” on our hands (which
is wonderful!).

I do not see any problem at all with us developing an open 'Secure Outpost'
hardware/software specification for these remote monitoring and control devices
and then letting anyone who is interested to build and sell devices that adhere
to the standard.  My initial idea was to build an open hardware reference
implementation for this project but if enough companies are willing to build
specification-compliant devices from day one, perhaps this is not necessary?


Anyway, my 'gut feel' is that as soon as people see these remotely controlled
lights blinking that the demand for Secure Outpost devices is going to be
strong enough to keep the device manufactures busy for a long time...


Ted

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