Headless setup: With the firmware flashed onto a brand new chip the chip broadcasts a WiFi station. Setting it up is easy from hereon.
Auto reconnect: If the WiFi goes down, the onboard LED starts flashing. When the WiFi is back, it reconnects and stops flashing. A power cycle in between will cause it to enter WiFi station mode again.
Over the air firmware update capability
NTP based timing synchronization.
Sensor and device bindings: A generic framework to make each node a unique automation controller.
Maintains a mDNS cache
Option to enable local and remote logging
REST API based access
Configure and control GPIOs
Rename devices associated with GPIOs
Schedule events
Get internal state of the node and perform analytics