Make your home work for you!
WiFi is the symbol of freedom and modernity, right? These days anything less than wire-less life feels very, very passé. Keeping aside the fact that some home devices perform better hard-wired, WiFi is fantastic… until you realize that your favorite space at home is WiFi-dead. No fun there: The sun room, where you spent so…
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A few days ago, I had the opportunity to chat with a group of moms about digital security for the adults in the household. It was really great, and time ran out before we could really dive into a related, but not originally planned topic: recommendations on mobile phone apps that enable parents/caregivers to somehow…
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Over the past few years, some of my friends bought gizmos from the smart home aisles of the orange home improvement store and the blue and yellow electronics guys. I’ll clarify first that I do not have anything against that, on the contrary, I believe that the big retailers have done a wonderful job at…
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In its most simplistic view, a Smart Home is a collection of Sensors and Actuators, coordinated by a Controller (see this post if you want the full story): Sensors measure physical values and sends these data values to a controller. Controllers make decisions based on the sensor data, and in turn send control signals (which…
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Years ago, I had a little routine that I completed just before commuting to work… it included closing all windows, checking that all lights were off, setting door locks and some other things before leaving. While commuting by car or train, sometimes I looked at the sky and said: wow! It looks like we’re getting…
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