Domotic platform based on multipurpose wireless technology with distributed processing capabilities

This work describes a domotic system (VESTA) oriented to low to medium rate domotic wireless applications, multi-interface communication gateway, low power and low cost, open code based software, micro Web server implemented and with distributed intelligence between its two types of components: the processing platform, Antares and the remote modules, Mercurios. Antares and Mercurio can be mixed in any number and can interface with each other as well as with commercial and non commercial devices. Antares is the processing platform built around a Motorola Coldfire processor with an embedded /spl mu/CLinux operating system. Mercurio is a low power battery operated radio modem that includes an 8051 microcontroller for dynamic networking operations. The applicability of the platform is demonstrated through three application cases: a system to reduce energy consumption in hotels funded by the Islas Baleares Government (Spain), an automatic nursing system for Alzheimer patients and a fertirrigation and climate control for greenhouses and extensive farming systems funded by Spanish agricultural associations.