Although the weather brought the group together, some of us want to expand beyond it. These questions go to the heart of what the 1-Wire weather station is all about. That's why it is also about network computing. Any 1 -Wire sensor could potentially have its own home page because it is individually Web addressable. To us, 1-Wire, Java and Jini are all related.
Amazing complexity comes when the basics are right.
The simple 1-Wire address appended to an IP can ride on the grand network. In the coming months we hope to see these elements all come together. For now, we'll start with networking local weather stations and move on to networking everything else. Call it a 1-Wire Net. Net uses just one signal for both its power and network connection, the economy of connections lowers the cost of distributed sensors.