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John Dvorak @ PC Magazine on G.hn

John Dvorak, one of the best known technology columnists, which has been covering the PC and CE industry since the 80's, has recently published a short column in PC Magazine called "HDMI: Who Needs This Aggravation?", in which he provides his view of the G.hn standard and how it will fix the problem of a fragmented powerline networking industry.

John talks about past problems in the powerline industry ...

Here comes the latest iteration of power-line networking. It's the 1-Gbps G.hn now promoted by the HomeGrid forum. This time it may all come together. Until now a slew of incompatible technologies have been working against each other, thus preventing any real traction with home power-line networking.

Linley Group: "G.hn is likely to emerge the victor for powerline and phoneline networking"

Joseph Byrne, Senior Analyst at Linley Group (one of the leading research firms for semiconductors), has written an in-depth post ("Fruitless battle of proprietary home-networking tech nears end") on the current situation of the wired home networking industry and the potential of G.hn to solve the fragmentation problem:

There are two efforts abreast to change the situation. The most promising of the two is the G.hn spec being developed under the auspices of the ITU. The developers of this spec made two sage decisions.

IP for Smart Objects shows future of Smart Grid

A few weeks ago, the IPSO Alliance (Internet for Smart Objects) conducted an interesting demonstration at the NetWorld+Interop 2009 show in Las Vegas. The demonstration showed a network of IP-enabled sensors that "collected over 100,000 temperature, humidity and light readings from the sensors spread over the three continents."