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I came across this very interesting Z-wave device called ´Strips´

indiegogo.com/projects/strips-the-invis ... 481#/story

They don´t give much tech info on the Z-wave, so I have asked them a few questions. Let´s hope they will put it up on their website

Questions I asked them:

Can you please give us more information about the Z-wave functionality?

1. Are you using EU or US Z-wave frequency?
2. As it´s battery operated, I assume it´s not involved with routing Z-wave traffic through the house? Is this correct?
3. Does it support Wake-up (= Wake Class?
4. Can you provide a list of what Z-wave classes it will support?

Cheers
Olof

The answers to my 4 questions came in...
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Hello Olof!
Thanks for the questions on our campaign. Here are the answers.

1) We are developing and certifying for EU and US in parallel and plan to deliver both at launch
2) Correct. It can not act as a router. It will act as a notification sensor. It only wakes up to send data.
3) It supports wake class

I’ll send the answer to #4 in a separate email.
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Answer to question 4.

COMMAND_CLASS_ZWAVEPLUS_INFO,
COMMAND_CLASS_VERSION,
COMMAND_CLASS_MANUFACTURER_SPECIFIC,
COMMAND_CLASS_NOTIFICATION_V3,
COMMAND_CLASS_DEVICE_RESET_LOCALLY,
COMMAND_CLASS_SENSOR_BINARY,
COMMAND_CLASS_ASSOCIATION,
COMMAND_CLASS_ASSOCIATION_GRP_INFO,
COMMAND_CLASS_BATTERY,
COMMAND_CLASS_WAKE_UP,
COMMAND_CLASS_POWERLEVEL

If we add Temperature:
COMMAND_CLASS_SENSOR_MULTILEVEL_V5,
COMMAND_CLASS_CONFIGURATION_V2

Olof, thanks for your effort in this

I have been looking at this sensor as well. Looks nice and will be interesting to use. But for now it only detects open or closed state. They mention that the "next version" will have temperature measuring (stretch goal) and a vibration sensor to detect broken window. So concerning the high price I will wait for the next gen. to arrive

W.

@ Bram: tx for the reply, nice to know that it's interesting info

@ W (Mrqnapper): as you find the price high, can you please tell me which z-wave door/window sensors you buy? The price of around 45-50 USD seems to be the same price as for the Fibaro door/window sensors. But perhaps I'm not looking sharp enough?

Look interesting, but because of the form factor I think you can throw it away after the batteries have died (which will be sooner than 10 years I guess)

kriz83 wrote:Look interesting, but because of the form factor I think you can throw it away after the batteries have died (which will be sooner than 10 years I guess)

I went back and asked them the question if the battery is replaceable. Here is their answer...grrr....

Hi Again!

The battery is not replaceable in Strips. This is one reason we have put so much effort into researching and developing a battery and a sensor that would get the most life out of that battery.

Calculating the average battery life of 2-3 years for a standard sensor, Strips should still price competitive, or even less expensive over it’s 10 year life than other sensor’s with a replaceable battery. Of course this will depend a bit on the final retail price.

I won't worry about this to much. For many tech (apple for instance) you couldn't replace the battery and yet you can today because of vendor X sees a market for it. This sensor will cost you 45ct per month which is slightly less then your average telecom bundle and that price isn't bothering anyone