Warning: Explicative language involved

[Paul Tykodi]

Tom Buskey wrote:

> Something that could run my house, measuring and regulating everything.
> 
> Sensors to measure temp/humidity everywhere and graph them
> energy use
> Electric usage per outlet/socket
> Hot water/hot air/cold air
> Burgler alarm
> Christmas/walkway/driveway lights
> Driveway sensors
> Active heating vents
> Adjust temperature according to occupancy.
>    Taking into account historical lag, outside temperature
> 
> Guide to reducing energy by shifting dishwashing/laundry/etc
> Drape controls to let sunlight in for solar heat/close to insulate, keep
> sun
> out for cooling
> 
> Solar hotwater control
> Garden monitoring
> Weather station
> 
> Feed all this into a web server that can be browsed/controlled from a
> mythtv/tivo/zipit/psp/audry/cell phone/computer.
> 
> Oh, and make it fairly easy to setup.  And cheap.  And reliable enough for
> the non computer spouse :-)

Hi Tom,

You might want to take a look at the following document:
"HOUSe-KEEPER, a Vendor-independent Architecture for Easy Management of
Smart Homes"

There is a link to it from this web page (near the bottom under Technical
Reports): http://cui.unige.ch/~seigneur/

Best Regards,

/Paul
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