I see that Lowes has the IRIS product that supports Zigbee, Z-Wave, and Wifi home automation devices.

 

Just interested if it is theoretically possible to support all of Zigbee, Z-Wave, Wifi and Insteon based devices running together within a home at the same time driven by the one controller or do the Zigbee, Z-Wave, Wifi and Insteon protocols conflict with each other within the home?

The ISY is either Zigbee (and if it's energy monitoring Zigbee, that's different than device Zigbee) or Zwave. The alpha testers have Zwave working with insteon. There are some enhancements teased about 2 way ip communciatons which should open up, by theory, the possibility of wifi control like the network of things concept.

 

Alan

There are some enhancements teased about 2 way ip communciatons which should open up, by theory, the possibility of wifi control like the network of things concept.

 

Alan

 

Of course, the ELK module already does this. What has been teased is generic, user definable but more formalized bidirectional IP communications with a richer feature set.

or do the Zigbee, Z-Wave, Wifi and Insteon protocols conflict with each other within the home?

 

On this point, I have the understanding that these CAN coexist. Whether there is a single controller that speaks all four "languages" is another issue.