# Ignition Edge - Most powerful Home Automation server in the world **URL:** \ **Category:** General Discussion\ **Created:** [February 26, 2018, 9:00am UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/ignition-edge-most-powerful-home-automation-server-in-the-world/17129 "2018-02-26T09:00:34Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![R.Alamsha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e5b9ba/32.png) [@R.Alamsha](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/R.Alamsha)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2018, 9:00am UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/ignition-edge-most-powerful-home-automation-server-in-the-world/17129/1 "2018-02-26T09:00:34Z")
I thought, i will Ignite the minds and passion of the Ignition community today. I was deeply involved in large scale HA projects, 10 years back. I have been following this HA technology since then and have done enormous research on this subject. Today, i can confidently say that, Home automation eco-system has very well matured and is a viable BIG business for SI's. We need opportunities to survive. I think, HA opens up some huge opportunities for the automation guys. My dream: **1. IgnitionHA + unlimited drivers + license to monitor any 50 devices -- USD 99/-** 2. Every extra device license -- USD 5/- (bulk discounts available) 3. Ignition HA client - Free 4. IPV6 enabled, plug and play. 5. Annual subscription -- USD 19/- **Ignition can launch it in partnership with "Home Assistant + [Amazon.com](http://Amazon.com) + Raspberry PI + Samsung + Home appliance manufacturers".** With USD 99/- base package, Ignition can easily aim to sell 100,000/- licenses in the first year and a million licenses in 3 years. Home security is becoming a very big concern. Every home owner wants to be notified on his/her mobile when a security breach happens. Ignition must focus and give high priority for this segment. What do you think?. Please share your ideas 🙂 > **[Home Assistant](https://www.home-assistant.io/)** > > Open source home automation that puts local control and privacy first. Powered by a worldwide community of tinkerers and DIY enthusiasts. Perfect to run on a Raspberry Pi or a local server. Home Assistant - MQTT enabled - Can talk to more than 1000 devices and growing: > **[MQTT](https://www.home-assistant.io/integrations/mqtt/)** > > Instructions on how to setup MQTT within Home Assistant. Awaken your home: Python and the Internet of Things: [![](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/original/3X/0/4/0431e94d815fbb5f144967efde9cff8c49d8e940.jpeg "Paulus Schoutsen - Awaken your home: Python and the Internet of Things - PyCon 2016") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cfasc9EgbMU) [Hass.io](http://Hass.io) is an operating system that will take care of installing and updating Home Assistan [Introducing Hass.io - Home Assistant](https://home-assistant.io/blog/2017/07/25/introducing-hassio/) https://www.youtube.com/embed/tCGlQSsQ-Mc?feature=oembed&wmode=opaque&list=PLgtGAtCt_hGTc_GAEmMhQ_XVs80mZoBIG ---
**Author:** ![R.Alamsha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e5b9ba/32.png) [@R.Alamsha](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/R.Alamsha)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2018, 7:16am UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/ignition-edge-most-powerful-home-automation-server-in-the-world/17129/2 "2018-02-27T07:16:46Z")
**What is the BEST choice for home automation in 2018! -- openHAB 2** [![](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/original/3X/6/c/6c1e643c79e532c034347f238ef0657ff37bb0bf.jpeg "What is the BEST choice for home Automation smart home hub home automation system smart home tech") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z3fZaAvs5V4) > **[openHAB](https://www.openhab.org/)** > > a vendor and technology agnostic open source automation software for your home I installed on Ubuntu, within 10 mins and checked. **AWESOME !!!.** ---
**Author:** ![R.Alamsha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e5b9ba/32.png) [@R.Alamsha](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/R.Alamsha)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2018, 8:24am UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/ignition-edge-most-powerful-home-automation-server-in-the-world/17129/3 "2018-02-27T08:24:16Z")
https://www.youtube.com/embed/tzJODTjYuWI?feature=oembed&wmode=opaque&list=PLGlxCdrGUagxkwMBuQf4kUUTiBPzfHum1 [https://www.eclipse.org/smarthome/index.html](https://www.eclipse.org/smarthome/index.html) ---
**Author:** ![R.Alamsha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e5b9ba/32.png) [@R.Alamsha](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/R.Alamsha)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2018, 2:10pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/ignition-edge-most-powerful-home-automation-server-in-the-world/17129/4 "2018-02-27T14:10:44Z")
> **[Smart Home - Home Monitoring, SmartThings](https://www.samsung.com/us/smartthings/)** > > Samsung has a wide variety of Smart Home products available, including smart cameras, smart mesh WiFi, smart trackers, and more. Make your home smarter now! Check out the price… Samsung is NOT an integration platform. It can talk to few products manufactured by Samsung. But HA is an emerging market and billions of devices will become smart in few years. What’s missing is a decent integration platform. This is where Ignition has a great opportunity. I can see openHAB can become a good partner for Ignition HA. Home is very personal and nobody wants to put his HA on cloud. They call HA as “Intranet of things”. Hacker proof HA system will become the USP. ---
**Author:** ![R.Alamsha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e5b9ba/32.png) [@R.Alamsha](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/R.Alamsha)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2018, 6:51am UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/ignition-edge-most-powerful-home-automation-server-in-the-world/17129/5 "2018-03-14T06:51:52Z")
I am little bit surprised to see striking similarity between openHAB forum and Ignition forum!!. > **[Ignition SCADA + openHAB integration](https://community.openhab.org/t/ignition-scada-openhab-integration/41714)** > > Is it possible to integrate openHAB with Ignition SCADA?. Ignition has full MQTT, JSON and DB(MySQL) query tag capability. I would like to build a HA demo project on Ignition with openHAB as a data server. I have suggested openHAB as a good partner... ---
**Author:** ![accyroy](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/accyroy/32/3386_2.png) [@accyroy](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/accyroy)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2018, 8:00am UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/ignition-edge-most-powerful-home-automation-server-in-the-world/17129/6 "2018-03-14T08:00:20Z")
They use the same forum software, as does home assistant [https://community.home-assistant.io/](https://community.home-assistant.io/) The software is [https://www.discourse.org/](https://www.discourse.org/) ---
**Author:** ![R.Alamsha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e5b9ba/32.png) [@R.Alamsha](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/R.Alamsha)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2018, 3:59am UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/ignition-edge-most-powerful-home-automation-server-in-the-world/17129/7 "2018-06-03T03:59:04Z")
I have engineered decent Building Automation projects on Tridium, a very powerful BAS integration platform from Honeywell. So, i think i am qualified to speak on this subject. I have always been looking for a rock solid HA server for high end apartments, villas, bungalows and ranches of millionaires and billionaires. Till date i couldn’t find one, until it suddenly dawned on me “why not Ignition Edge?”. Read on… MQTT is emerging as the ultimate protocol for HA and IOT business because of it’s light weight, publish/subscribe nature. Many intelligent sensor and embedded controller manufacturers are adopting MQTT into their products. Today, we have Ignition Edge, built for IOT and MQTT. This is like a dream come true. I call Ignition as the Rolls Royce of SCADA business. Ignition Edge software is very much affordable. The list price is USD 400/-. It’s possible to build a beautiful rock solid HA showcase project on a Linux box for less than USD2000/- investment. HA is like jewellery business. If you know how to reach the right client, you can make good money. ---
**Author:** ![R.Alamsha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e5b9ba/32.png) [@R.Alamsha](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/R.Alamsha)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2018, 4:20am UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/ignition-edge-most-powerful-home-automation-server-in-the-world/17129/8 "2018-06-03T04:20:19Z")
> [@Is there a way to consume MQTT JSON payload in Ignition without cirrus link driver?](http://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/is-there-a-way-to-consume-mqtt-json-payload-in-ignition-without-cirrus-link-driver/18280/9): > > Eclipse Paho Java Client [https://www.eclipse.org/paho/clients/java/](https://www.eclipse.org/paho/clients/java/) May be interesting for module developers. ---
**Author:** ![mikewer9](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/65b543/32.png) [@mikewer9](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/mikewer9)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2019, 1:15pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/ignition-edge-most-powerful-home-automation-server-in-the-world/17129/9 "2019-07-17T13:15:50Z")
I would say that there are lot of tools avialable which helps to get the comfirtable in home conditions.I have checked some tools for the [smart home](https://soundx.co.za/home-automation/) where tools are necessory for the powerful automation.