31.10.2018, 02:23
(30.10.2018, 22:51)Erwin van der Zwart Wrote: Hi,
Well we always take the customer as central point in our decisions and we try to be as much as posible customer friendly but most of the time there are more things to weight.
There are several reasons to make this choiche.. Here are (just) a few if them
1) Schneider Electric does not produce Z-Wave products.
2) Z-Wave is not the best protocol to use in terms of quality, reliability and security (not self healing and not encrypted)
3) The Z-Wave app would require support from Schneider without knowledge of the used end devices that are not produced by us.
4) We currently focus on Zigbee / IPv6 IEEE 802.15.4 based communication as we think that will be the standard and this wireless technology has self healing mesh networking and is encrypted / secured.
5) Our new wireless residential solution Wiser is 100% Zigbee (and BLE) based. It makes much more sense to add a app that supports those products. Thus is also a reason that homeLYnk is renamed to Wiser for KNX.
6) We only use apps when they are tested and validated by our testing lab. It would require a investment to do all this work. Given the known issues and the fact that the Z-Wave app is being changed to new version makes it not a good candidate to adopt.
Hopes this clarifies it a bit..
BR,
Erwin
Hi Erwin,
Another simple reason is that Schneider Electric is not member of Z-wave alliance. Thus it can only focus on ZigBee protocole as a member of ZigBee alliance.
B.R,
Chouaibou.