6LoWPAN or any alteady avaible alternative

["Mussard, Mike J" <m.mussard@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Afternoon all,

I'm looking for a home automatic protocol that is most open to end user
hacking and so far my research has pointed me in the direction of 6LoWPAN
which I'm thinking looks like the way I want to go. That is mainly due to
not requiring expensive SDKs to be purchased for homebrew type
applications, but it doesn't appear anyone is making 6LoWPAN devices for
the mass market yet so there's nothing to try and be compatible with.

I've found JENIC from NXP, but that looks like Q4 2011 from their website
and also I can't quite work out how it differs from proper 6LoWPAN so how
good jenic-ip would be at talking to non Jenic-IP 6LoWPAN devices.

Are any of the technologies more open than others, or is it worth me
waiting this one out until I can get my hands on 6LoWPAN devices?

For a bit more background the kind of devices I'm interested are both
sensor type boards and also 12 volt control type boards e.g. for LED strip
that already requires a 12 volt DC transformer.

Mike






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