A bit of technique ....

Two interconnection points are at the heart of ZODIANET:

1)  ZiBASE. It communicates and acts as a server with devices around your home.

2)  The server zibase.net. It communicates via Internet with :

- Your PC or your Mac (which must have browser such as IE7, FireFox3.0, Chrome, Safari, etc...)

- Your mobile phone (which must have an Internet connection and must be equipped with a Web browser or WAP)

These two points are connected together and have the ability to exchange information at any time by an original and highly reliable signaling system that requires no particular configuration of your box, nor the implementation of special devices such as uPnP; moreover, it does not cause any security vulnerability in your computer software installation and consumes only a negligible amount of bandwidth on your broadband connection (ADSL/cable).

ZiBASE has also a local intelligence because the user will consign it what to do without his intervention. For this, it saves onto a backup memory the scenarios that the user has previously defined on zibase.net and launches them itself if the trigger conditions occur. In general, ZiBASE is autonomous, it solicit Internet and the server zibase.net  only to request time on startup, to send emails, text messages, photos or to request the launch of a scenario on another ZiBASE.

Server Zibase.net is available around the world (like any website) and the user can "connect to his home" entirely free anywhere. It offers the user an exceptionally ergonomic interface of type RIA (Rich Internet Application) and surprisingly present in all browsers, through the use of Adobe FLEX (which may be seen as an interactive extension of the 'FLASH'). Its interest also consist in the fact that no program/​​application is needed to install on the computer, the user can, via a PC at his workplace or at a Web Coffee, access to all resources to operate and even reconfigure the installation!