Having worked with Intel Active Management Technology and Intel vPro Technology since version 1.0, it seems to me that there are a whole host of possibilities for those who are do-it-yourself-ers. One is the ability to programmatically wake a system, remotely trigger a process such as a software patch, and then put the system back to sleep. As it turns out, this is not so hard, even for me who has a limited scripting (read batch file) capability. The video chronicles the results of my effort. (less info)