Hobby farm owners are often absent and would appreciate all the 24/7 help they can get with monitoring gates and water levels and turning lights and pumps on and off. A SNAP mesh network should work well in this environment. For various reasons we have chosen an Intel/Ubuntu server to interface with the owner wherever they be via his browser and the Internet. Video Marketingis widely accepted and is a great way to capture attention in a short time. Although we've been working the sensor/actuator side with considerable success, we've yet to succeed in establishing the keystone of the project, snapconnet.
