About W3 Productions

Specializing in content managment systems design and development for the web as well as client-server applications software design and development, W3 Productions drew the attention of a start-up company, Intelligent Home Solutions, Inc. IHS was developing a "smart" home application called VitalView, which consisted of various hardware and software modules. They wanted to simplify the amount of software required for normal operation, and they also wanted to implement Electronic Design Technology's product line of i-LiNE hardware for controlling the lighting in rooms.

This was a daunting challenge, and one that I accepted, since I had worked on two other major software development projects as a software engineer; Casino Cash, a virtual casino client-server project for a start-up company in La Isla Margarita, VZ (International Internet), and an e-CRM (customer relations management system) for a start-up dot-com company in Chicago (lightflow.com) in 2000.

A month after receiving the i-LiNE hardware from IHS, I had a functional prototype of the server for demonstration, a hybrid between a web server which provided a web-driven graphical user interface, and a custom application server, which communicated with the i-LiNE hardware via the RS-232 COM1 serial port, by using the i-LiNE network interface.

Unfortunately, IHS went out of business due to lack of funding for the project and the prototype was abandoned. However, I recently found hard-copy printouts of the code for the server modules (C#) and I have decided to redesign and develop the i-LiNET applications server to work with EDT's current product line of i-LiNE hardware.

Currently, I am waiting for EDT to ship the hardware from their product line so that I may continue development on the application server.

Dave Hartman