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Home Automation
I've been working on home automation for over 15 years and I'm close to achieving my goal which is a house that understands where everyone is at all times, can predict where you are going next and can control lighting, heating and other systems without you having to do or say anything. That's a true "smart home".
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Home Automation Sensors
An overview of the many sensors I've experimented with for home automation including my favorite under-floor strain gauge, through all the usual PIR, beam and contact sensors to some more esoteric devices like an 8x8 thermal camera.
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Collinearity test for sensor data compression
One way to reduce the volume of sensor data is to remove redundant points. In a system with timestamped data recorded on an irregular interval we can achieve this by removing co-linear points.
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Event blocks
Home automation systems need to respond to events in the real world. Sometimes it's an analog value, sometimes it's binary, rarely is it clean and not susceptible to problems. Let's discuss some of the ways to convert these inputs into actions.
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Logistic function - convert values to probabilities
Another super useful function for handling sensor data and converting to probabilities is the logistic function 1/(1+e^-x). Using this you can easily map values onto a 0.0-1.0 probability range.
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ATAN curve for probabilities
In a home automation system we often want to convert a measurement into a probability. The ATAN curve is one of my favorite curves for this as it's easy to map overything onto a 0.0-1.0 range.
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Probabilistic Home Automation
A probabilistic approach to home automation models the probability that each room is occupied and how many people are in that room.
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Multiple hypothesis tracking
A statistical approach to understanding which rooms are occupied in a smart house
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A state machine for lighting control
An if-this-then-that style rules machine is insufficient for lighting control. This state machine accomplishes 90% of the correct behavior for a light that is controlled automatically and manually in a home automation system.
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Home Automation States
Understanding the many different 'states' a house can have is critical to creating great home automation
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Graphing gigabytes of home automation data with tableau
Some interesting charts from the gigabytes of data my home automation system produces
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iBeacon meetup in Seattle - January 2015
My notes on the iBeacon meetup in Seattle held in January 2015
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Home Automation Systems as a Graph
Using nodes and links to represent a home and all the devices in it
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N-Gram Analysis of Sensor Events in Home Automation
Using n-gram analysis to spot patterns in sensor activations
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Xamarin Forms Application For Home Automation
Building a Xamarin Forms application to control my home automation system
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Showing home status with just a single RGB LED
Multicolored LEDs can convey a lot of information in a small space
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A wireless sensor network using Moteino boards
The diminutive Arduino boards include a powerful transmitter/receiver
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JSON Patch - a C# implementation
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A RESTful API for sensor data
POSTing data to a home automation system from Arduino devices
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Dynamically building 'Or' Expressions in LINQ
How to create a LINQ expression that logically ORs together a set of predicates
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VariableWithHistory - making persistence invisible, making history visible
A novel approach to adding history to variables in a programming language
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A Quantified House - My Talk to the Seattle Quantified Self Meetup
My talk to the Seattle Quantified Self meetup
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Integrating an Android phone into my home automation system
Some new features for my home automation using an Android phone
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A simple state machine in C#
State machines are useful in many contexts but especially for home automation
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Convert a property getter to a setter
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Task Parallel Library: A scheduler with priority, apartment state and maximum degree of parallelism
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MongoDB Map-Reduce - Hints and Tips
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What does a Smart House do at Halloween?
My favorite home automation features for Halloween
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Exception: An object with the same key already exists in the ObjectStateManager. The ObjectStateManager cannot track multiple objects with the same key.
Help with this exception
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Singleton tasks: A TaskFactory for the Task Parallel Library with 'run-only-one' semantics
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Lengthening short Urls in C#
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ASP.NET MVC SEO - Solution Part 1
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Home Automation Block Diagram
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Building sitemap.xml for SEO ASP.NET MVC
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World's Smartest House Demonstration
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Tip: getting the index in a foreeach statement
A tip on using LINQ's Select expression with an index
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Future proof your home with a new conduit system?
Running conduit can be expensive but maybe you don't need one to every room
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404 errors on IIS6 with ASP.NET 4 Beta 2
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Mixed mode assembly errors after upgrade to .NET 4 Beta 2
Fixing this error was fairly simple
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The EntityContainer name could not be determined
How to fix the exception "the entitycontainer" name could not be determined
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Shortened URLs should be treated like a Codec ...
Expanding URLs would help users decide whether or not to click a link
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A great site for developing and testing regular expressions
Just a link to a site I found useful
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Entity Framework in .NET 4
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Exception Handling using Exception.Data
My latest article on CodeProject covers the lesser known Exception.Data property
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ASP.NET Custom Validation
How to solve a problem encountered with custom validation in ASP.NET
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Cache optimized scanning of pairwise combinations of values
Using space-filling curves to optimize caching
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