The heart (and brain) of the Cielo Home Management System is the Cielo Home Gateway, which can optionally be installed in a 19-inch rack. The gateway unit is based on a compact PC-compatible embedded motherboard with an Intel Celeron processor.
Interfaces include a 1024x768 SVGA video controller with LCD and TV display outputs, USB, 4 serial ports, two 10/100Base-T Fast Ethernet ports, and AC-97 2.2 3D-audio. A CompactFlash Type II slot is used for Flash memory and other expansion functions, and modular PC/104 expansion is also provided. The Cielo Home Gateway runs Microsoft's Windows CE .NET as its embedded software platform.
Cielo supports a variety of wireless and wired standards, including infrared, X10, TCP/IP, HTTP, UPnP, S-Link , Z-Wave, WiFi (802.11b), and Bluetooth, X10, RS-232, RS-422, and RS-485. Additionally, Cielo works with a variety of sensors, including temperature, humidity, light level, water detection, water level, heat, CO2 detection, and passive infrared sensors, CasaWorks says...