It seems to me that with a small redesign the ioBridge could become the basis for an environmental monitor and system control unit for servers/workstations. It has four digital and four analog IO's, enough to monitor four temperature probes and to monitor the reset and power on/off buttons.
Throw in PoE (power over ethernet) and a redesigned board (to fit into a standard interface slot but without any physical interface to the motherboar) and there you have a cheap monitoring device for a server.
With the new rules you can generate temperature alerts and reset or power on/off a server.
As a refinement I'd have two of the analog temperature probes routed to the backplane as well so that temperatures within, say, a cabinet can be monitored.
The reset and power buttons are just contact switches so two of the digital IO's can monitor the two switches and the other two can "pass through" the state of the switch to the motherboard.
What is crucial here is, I feel, PoE; and this should be an option for all modules.
