If you're buying a bunch of them, a 50- or 60-watt difference per monitor can add up to serious money over time, especially if your utility rates are high.
...Especially if you also have to air condition the space. A 50 watt difference is closer to a 200 watt difference if you're paying for air conditioning.
You could make a neat little networking system. Some friends and I have tossed the idea around for a while of a low-bandwidth P2P wireless infrastructure that would automagically relay messages to units outside the range of the transmitting unit.
Since these things know where they are (geographically), they could configure themselves to do the routing in a semi-intelligent way.
The routing would either be a complete nightmare or maybe just a good masters thesis. How about it, science?
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...Especially if you also have to air condition the space. A 50 watt difference is closer to a 200 watt difference if you're paying for air conditioning.
You can usually press both buttons at once in alarm mode and it'll reset the alarm to midnight.
You could make a neat little networking system. Some friends and I have tossed the idea around for a while of a low-bandwidth P2P wireless infrastructure that would automagically relay messages to units outside the range of the transmitting unit.
Since these things know where they are (geographically), they could configure themselves to do the routing in a semi-intelligent way.
The routing would either be a complete nightmare or maybe just a good masters thesis. How about it, science?
-Frank