It is hard to know where to stop when building something as generic and straight forward into the future as this. After the whole process explained in this document, Lights turned to be a generic open source platform inducted into a product that can control lights from anywhere in the world, but the fact that anybody can edit it and customize it to make it their own, makes this something that cannot be imagined or written down.
From the first wheel invented until this project; lots of years of innovation and inventions have put technology in our day to day lives; more and more people interact with their devices, 9 years ago we could not imagine holding a super computer in our hands while now, we wear it in our wrists. Every day there is a new couple of words together forming a new one, AI, VR, IoT, etc. Disrupting technologies break the market and are the next big thing until a new one appears and, within this world where we live, fast delivered solutions is something engineers, designers and companies around the world are and will try to aim for.
Within this context, Lights creates something the world is going towards to, specialization within industries. In 2016 the future tells engineers that they have to be able to jump into a new thing within weeks if they want to keep their jobs, be in the last trends or even be able to carry on designing or engineering products, and this, is what makes Lights truly important, it has so many industries together, so many technologies involved, software, hardware, electronics, design, development, engineering, planning, economics, financing and many more.
After more than 350 hours developing, researching, creating, writing and designing, Lights is what it was intended to be, a prototype that can be used from anywhere in the world, connected with all the easiness available, with good design aiming to go for the general public and ready to be sent into a crowdsourcing campaign.
There are lots of new ideas coming every day that can be added into a project like this, new technologies, languages or frameworks that improve the communications, new shields or super tiny computers. With this, it is a given that Lights is on and will not stop here with this spec; this is just the MVP that can truly be the next big thing within the Internet of Things. The field in the world that, all of us together, are levitating towards to.