This is one of the best applications for IoT devices and I think one of the first applications I know of. An intelligent thermostat that controls the heating in the house. My solution is based on NETATMO Thermostat for Smartphone/NTH01 NetAtmo web based dashboard: NetAtmo monthly report: Features: – is compatible with any gas heater… Read More »
There are old devices that do not have the logic in them so they are not intelligent devices. This legacy hardware can be controlled using intelligent power sockets. My solution was to get a bunch of Belkin WEMO sockets. They are fully supported by IFTTT so lost of nice use for them. I use them… Read More »
If you really want to monitor everything that includes you also, the human. The easiest monitoring is done using the smart phone. Obviously a smart phone is fully IFTTT compatible and has a lots of location and notification sensors already included. It is also one of the notification and control hubs for the other IFTTT… Read More »
The IoT (internet of things) is one of the new craze around. There are so many interesting devices but also many useless devices that are part of the IoT universe that it can be confusing. To try to list bellow my IoT collection of devices and say some words about them. House Alarm: IoT: House… Read More »
The ripple effect of virtual assistants is something that appeared as an idea in a lot of SF movies. Think about Terminator or A.I. where we see this kind of ripple effect that starts from one A. I. and then ripples through all the A.I.s like a wave and washed everything including the human civilization.… Read More »
In another life (almost 14 years ago) for some years I had the privilege to be a member of one of the top European computer vision groups VISICS/PSI VISICS/PSI. My focus then was object categorization using neural networks, not a very popular topic at that time due to limitations in data availability and computation power.… Read More »