Keith W. Parker - Portland State University

Keith W. Parker <kwp@pdx.edu>
http://web.pdx.edu/~kwp/

Non-Traditional Practitioner and Student of
ESE (Embedded Systems Engineering)
and
BEES (Built Environment Embedded Systems)

Canadian Patent 1198775
http://brevets-patents.ic.gc.ca/opic-cipo/cpd/eng/patent/1198775/summary.html
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EPICS (Experimental Physics and Industrial Control System) R3.14.12

"EPICS is a set of Open Source software tools, libraries and applications
developed collaboratively and used worldwide to create distributed soft real-time control systems
for scientific instruments such as a particle accelerators, telescopes and other large scientific experiments."
http://www.aps.anl.gov/epics/

While it was developed to do "Big Physics",
such as particle accelerators, telescopes and other large scientific experiments,
it is ideal for use as the infrastructure backbone of
Built Environment Embedded Systems (BEES).

If it was designed to operate a particle accelerator,
it can certainly operate your house, or an entire appartment building.

"The latest stable release is 3.14.12.3.
Version 3.14.12 was the last version in the 3.14 series
before new development was focused on the 3.15 series."
http://www.aps.anl.gov/epics/base/R3-14/12.php

This is a very good thing!
It means that the functionality of R3.14.12 will NEVER change.
You can design systems based on it.
You can write books on the use of it in the Built Environment,
as well as for research instruments and industrial control systems,
as the name implies.