The Z-OS - page 1

The moment you take a Z-device out of its shipping box, the Z-OS running inside it automatically searches for other Z-devices with the same customer id (burned into the device before shipping) and joins into their network.

This connection is fully automatic. All network operations are handled internally by the Z-OS. There is no setup, one just takes them out of the box and there the are. From the point of view of the user or customer, there is no network, communication just *is*.

All Z-devices are identified by a unique serial number, also burned into them at manufacture. It is printed on the invoice and available programmatically as well.

Say you have a servo, serial number 839402. There are no wires: it is battery powered and radio connected. You merely set it down on a table, or glue it to a wall. Then, from any computer running the provided "Z-OS" app, you can type a command like:

   >> 839402.setAngle(27)

This causes that specific servo to rotate to 27 degrees. We can also give it a name:

   >> 839402.setName("myFavoriteNewServo")

so that we can now do the same command like this:

   >> myFavoriteNewServo.setAngle(27)