Steve Greenblatt

Some of the things that would limit the success of some of the, maybe we'll call them the edge control platform systems that are not centralized, would be the availability of, or the capabilities of it.

How much is it

about configuration, how much logic is involved, and also the drivers that are available to talk to other devices, because somebody that's going to use something like that is not going to be able to decipher an API and know how to control devices they're going to rely on.

These are the

and they're going to expect that it's just going to work.

So there are benefits to it if you're looking at it from standalone, isolated systems that aren't going to change a lot.

I think another key element, and I think that James will agree, is the ability to

scale and manage these systems because that seems to come up awful lot is that I'm not going to just have this one, I'm going to have several and I need to be able to know that I can replicate them and then when they need to be updated, I don't have to go to every single system and update them.

So those are some of the things that come to mind for me, you know, that those are also some of the advantages of the centralized system, you know, and some of the disadvantages of the centralized system is the complexity of it, the time constraints.

that you have to put into it, the learning curve of them, not to knock what we do, but there aren't a lot of people that can just sit down at a computer and figure it out and make a system work within the first day or possibly even within the first week.

So I wanted to make sure that we provided you with

as much of a well-rounded argument about this because I think that we can be biased about it, but there are different things to consider.

And I think that there are very tangible qualities that we have to look at.

One thing, and I agree with all of that, and one thing that I thought of that could be interesting is if there were a device that came out that was more mainstream that allowed somebody who knew common programming languages to sit down and make it work.

And I think that that's where we could potentially see some of this catching on.

Because

I wouldn't say we would want to open it up to hobbyists, but somebody who knew how to program in a language could pick it up somewhat quickly and write a script, let's say, to make a product, do some things that they needed that were custom to a system.

Well, Dan, thank you for leading this conversation.

Is there anything else that you wanted to share or any other input from your audience that would be valuable?

Thanks for being with us, Dan.