Just to avoid any possible confusion: the case made in the previous article for “centralised node management” is not meant to imply that nodes need to operate in a centralised fashion!
This is where design and development are really distinct from the decisions on what remote nodes (wireless as well as wired) actually do. We may well want to design a home automation infrastructure where a light-switch node sends out a signal when pressed, only intended for another node in the same room, controlling a lamp attached to it.
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