World’s smartest house
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Home Automation Calendar Integration
about 9 months ago - 2 comments
One feature of my home automation system is Google Calendar integration. What this enables is two things: (i) the house can record what happened on the calendar so I can see at a glance what’s been going on back home and (ii) the ability to put events on the calendar for the house to do More >
Smart home energy savings – update for 2010
about 1 year ago - 2 comments
Here’s an updated graph showing the ongoing reduction in energy for our smart home. Driven mainly by continual improvement in the algorithms that control the heating, air conditioning and lighting the overall consumption of gas and electricity has continued to decline throughout 2010. It appears however that I am approaching the limit as to what More >
A smart power strip
about 1 year 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 1 year 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 1 year 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 1 year 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
about 1 year ago - No comments
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 1 year 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 >
Weather Forecasting for Home Automation
about 1 year ago - 1 comment
In the USA we are lucky to have the NOAA and their excellent web service that can provide a detailed weather forecast for any location (specified by latitude and longitude). Using this service my home automation system maintains a detailed, regularly updated local weather forecast object which can be queried easily by any other object More >
Sequential Logic Blocks – compared to the Reactive Framework
about 1 year ago - No comments
One of the features of my home automation system is extensions to the C# language that make it easy to define complex logical and temporal behaviors. These behave somewhat like the new Reactive Extensions in .NET but with some key differences which I will explain below. I developed these extensions before Reactive Framework was released More >