A Quantified House – My Talk to the Seattle Quantified Self Meetup
I delivered the following presentation to a meetup of the Quantified Self group in Seattle tonight. The evening was a fascinating fusion of medicine, technology and personal improvement. My talk fell between a session on personal genome sequencing and another on measuring the effects of coffee on blood pressure.
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A traffic service that answers “which way should I go?”
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A smart power strip
about 2 years ago - 1 comment
Recently I added a smart power strip to the TV/Amplifier setup in the living room. My main aim was convenience – to make it easier to turn everything off all at once. But I also wanted to see how much power I could save by eliminating the parasitic power drain that a TV, amplifier and More >
Holiday Season (Christmas) in our Smart Home
about 2 years ago - 1 comment
So what does a smart home do at Christmas time? Well, obviously it controls the Christmas lights, both the ones on the exterior and the ones on the Christmas tree and around the house. The indoor lights come on automatically at dusk and stay on provided the room they are in is occupied. Leave the More >
What does a Smart House do at Halloween?
about 2 years ago - 1 comment
photo credit: madmarv00 At Halloween our home automation system has a few additional and changed behaviors. Here are some of them … 1. When a visiting car comes down the drive the usual alert in the house is replaced with a spooky noise. (Normally the driveway alarm is the gentle tweeting of birds — something More >
If your house could talk to you, what would it say?
about 2 years ago - 2 comments
photo credit: tompagenet Suppose for a minute that your house could talk. What would you want it to tell you? That’s a question I’ve been considering over the past few years because unlike most of you, my house can talk! There are ceiling speakers in many rooms, the house knows which rooms are occupied, and More >
Home Automation Top Features
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Someone recently asked me what the top features are in my home automation system. That’s a tough question, I have several favorites and there are so many features in there already or under development. But, here’s a current list of some of my favorites: Lights turn themselves off automatically – saves 40% on electricity usage More >
Passive Air Conditioning to reduce Energy Consumption
about 2 years ago - 3 comments
photo credit: dynamosquito Technology to heat or cool buildings naturally and without expending huge quantities of energy has existed for thousands of years. In Iran this ‘badgir’ has a natural cooling system made with mud bricks and Adobe. It uses the air circulation between two towers passing through a dome refreshed by the flow of More >
Home Automation Heating and Cooling (HVAC) Features
about 2 years ago - 3 comments
Now that summer is finally upon us in this part of the world I thought I might make a list of the many ways in which my home automation system monitors and controls the heating and cooling systems (HVAC) in our house. It does this to reduce energy consumption and to provide a more comfortable More >
How can I tell if my house is smart?
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So, you’ve been sold on the idea of a smart home and are looking at your options. There’s one that has gorgeous LCD keypads that you could put in every room for just a few hundred dollars a pop, and look! it says in the brochure that it’s “smart”. Well, guess, what, if that LCD More >
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about 8 months ago
I’m a BIG fan of your work. I’ve seen a lot of home automation projects, but yours are definitely the ultimate system I’ve ever seen created…
I’m building one of my own, I’m a student and I love learning. It’s quite fun to go through your public code, I see you have a lot of interesting articles.
But couldn’t you try and find the time to do some in depth articles about the LINQ interface you have in your code?
I find your code architecture really interesting but I can’t find anything on how to implement what you have done.
I did some extension methods on my own Interface in C#, and implemented some basic selectors for windows and doors and such, and could include multiple “do” calls with custom anonymous actions.
But one of the things that really buggles my mind is the “PulseStretch” extension you have… How do you go about making such a function? And how do you combine it with the other functions effectively?
I really appreciate your hard work, I hope you can find time for a little more!