Two floors, one platform

The machines in your house and the machines in the factory are becoming the same machine.

GATechX takes one technology at a time and explains it properly — how it works, what it really costs, and what changes the day you switch it on.

This week

The two tracks

Explainers

Smart Home

Thread vs Zigbee vs Wi-Fi

Three radios, three trade-offs. Which one belongs in which room, and why mesh networks fail at the edges.

Energy

Home batteries: the honest maths

Capacity, cycles, depth of discharge, and the tariff structures that decide whether one ever pays you back.