Home networking
Jorn Barger
fully-networked home, where (eg) the lights respond automatically when
you come into a room.
This new BBC article frames it in a way that makes sense to me, though:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_1697000/1697839.stm
The way I understand it, you could buy generic 'sensors' at the hardware
store, maybe the size of a nickel or smaller, that would detect
temperature or light-levels or sound-levels, and transmit that info
periodically on a set wavelength. (It would need to be mostly battery,
to last a year or more, and cost under $5 or so.)
Each time you install a new sensor, your pc will detect the new signal,
and ask you to identify it-- each sensor will need a unique id-number.
They'll all share the same frequency, so they'll need to transmit short
bursts infrequently, with random timing so they only rarely interfere at
exactly the same moment.
This is like crickets chirping-- the Media Lab uses the term 'crickets'
for something more complicated, though:
http://fredm.www.media.mit.edu/people/fredm/projects/cricket/
The 'effectors' (light-dimmers, motors, etc) would be on a different
frequency but programmable using the same software.
...What do you think, evil sirs?
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> The way I understand it, you could buy generic 'sensors' at the hardware
> store, maybe the size of a nickel or smaller, that would detect
> temperature or light-levels or sound-levels, and transmit that info
> periodically on a set wavelength. (It would need to be mostly battery,
> to last a year or more, and cost under $5 or so.)
>
> Each time you install a new sensor, your pc will detect the new signal,
> and ask you to identify it-- each sensor will need a unique id-number.
> They'll all share the same frequency, so they'll need to transmit short
> bursts infrequently, with random timing so they only rarely interfere at
> exactly the same moment.
>
Well, Jorn, since you specifically asked ME for comment...
The first thing to spring to my mind upon reading this post was the
idea of installing a sound-detecting sensor that turns the lights ON
in the same room with a light-detecting sensor that turns the lights
OFF and makes a sound. INSTANT DISCO STROBE PARTY, BAYBEE!
-M. Otis Beard
Joseph Michael Bay
>> ...What do you think, evil sirs?
BEHOLD, tonight you will be visited by THREEEE SPIRITS!
The FIRST will MESS with the LIGHTS!
> Well, Jorn, since you specifically asked ME for comment...
> The first thing to spring to my mind upon reading this post was the
>idea of installing a sound-detecting sensor that turns the lights ON
>in the same room with a light-detecting sensor that turns the lights
>OFF and makes a sound. INSTANT DISCO STROBE PARTY, BAYBEE!
The SECOND will screw with the dog:
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The THIRD ... will ALSO MESS WITH THE LIGHTS!
> The first thing to spring to my mind upon reading this post was the
>idea of installing a sound-detecting sensor that turns the lights ON
>in the same room with a light-detecting sensor that turns the lights
>OFF and makes a sound. INSTANT DISCO STROBE PARTY, BAYBEE!
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Jorn Barger <jo...@enteract.com> wrote:
>I've never really thought much about the Bill-Gates-style dream of a
>fully-networked home, where (eg) the lights respond automatically when
>you come into a room.
We here at NASA are already in the brave new world of the future with the auto sensing lights in your room here in Bldg. 28. I don't think KeV has that.
Lowtekkers. ANyway, the only downside is that apparently I don't move around
enough, so it shuts the lights off on me. Either that, or I'm dead and
in hell. BRANZ!!!!!
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> We here at NASA are already in the brave new world of the future
> with the auto sensing lights in your room here in Bldg. 28. I don't
> think KeV has that. Lowtekkers. ANyway, the only downside is that
> apparently I don't move around enough, so it shuts the lights off
> on me.
The Company has recently installed some small smoking enclosures
because now that they are apparently going to be more strict on
discouraging smokers from smoking next to entrances to buildings or
air vents, The Company hopes that walking through the rain to stand in
a shelter would be appealling.
These enclosures seem to be installed with movement-sensing lights
but, when I had a quick look inside, trying to identify what a
peculiar looking control box might be, the light did not turn on. I
would propose that The Company was being inventive by combining a
smoke detector with the light controls. The idea would be to stop
non-smokers from pretending to have a crafty cigarette, thus getting
away from a PHB. However, as they put one of the enclosures on the
wrong side of a barrier, so that anyone wanting to take advantage of
the cover provided would have to walk the maximum distance in whatever
precipitation was bound to be falling that day, I doubt that this is
the case.
> Either that, or I'm dead and in hell. BRANZ!!!!!
That is a more probable reason that the light didn't come on from me
as well.
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