W1: Geographical The is usually no way to identify bus geometry If you have several sensors, you can't know which is which Thus, you usually only feature one device, or one per type You can have one thermometer and one EEPROM But I2C or SPI storage is much cheaper Some devices offer extra pins to specify an "address" You connect these to low or high level The device status register is returning the value In this case, you can match devices to their position 1 wire but many pins Once I placed 20 of them in a board 4 gpio lines in total