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Home Automation and the Internet of Things; answers to readers comments
CES blog posts Our CES reports on new robotic vacuum cleaners, smart refrigerators, and environment-sensing scales were some of our most popular posts with our readers, as was our coverage of Cisco’s talks on the Internet of Things. There’ll probably be a few more CES reports to share. In future posts, we’re going to cover some of the new home automation gadgets coming out that will make the Internet of Things a reality. Trouble is, too many existing appliances weren’t designed to network. Let’s say you wanted to use our app to decide when to turn your gas dryer, fireplace, or furnace on or off based on airborne combustion levels. That’s hard to do right now. Home Automation and the Internet of Things But a number of small startups are tackling this problem with innovative gadgets that interact with legacy electric appliances like washing machines and dryers. Some feature cameras, optical sensors, outlet switches, and mechanical activators together with a WiFi connection and logic that’s designed to make it easier to let the dryer signal you (over the Internet) when it’s done or even let you control the dryer from a website.… Read the restIs US air quality ever as bad as in Shanghai? (photos)
Yet another evening of bad Los Angeles air quality We won’t bore our readers by pointing out that last night [January 29, 2014] was yet another “Unhealthy for Sensitive Groups” bad air quality day in Los Angeles. (Sensitive Groups includes those athletically inclined.) You can read about the trials and tribulations of our air purifiers from previous days this week and this month. “Lower your standards!” We had a comment exchange on a social media site with someone in Shanghai regarding China’s consideration of spraying water from skyscrapers. China hopes this can bring PM2.5 down to 35 micrograms per cubic meter. We point out this is at the US 24-hour average but still way above the US annual average exposure limit (but below where it has sometimes been in Los Angeles recently). We previously discussed this new technology, and whether it should be applied in the U.S. “Lower (weaken) your standards!”… Read the restWhy did the toaster salute the CES-announced Internet-of-Things smart range hood? Because it was General Electric.
Smart, Internet-connected kitchen appliances make it easy to prepare Internet spam? We’ve already mentioned that the Internet Of Things was big at the Consumer Electronics Show this year, and have already covered Internet-connected vacuum cleaners with airborne dust sensors. Now, you might not have heard about the smart range hood. (It was, of course, right next to an Internet-connected smart refrigerator, the product labels and exhibit material still in Chinese (see photo gallery), so fresh off the boat is this smart refrigerator technology. Actually, there are several companies with an Internet-connected refrigerator. They are sometimes the butt of jokes. It is technology of the future. It was already the technology of the future at last year’s CES. And probably the year before. A little slow getting off the ground. In more recent news one of these Internet-connected smart refrigerators was recently implicated in spam sending attacks after being hacked. So if there’s spam in your Samsung smart refrigerator, it’s not clear if you mean email spam or Hormel Spam(TM).… Read the restAcculation, Inc. and AQcalc in the news!
AQcalc got mentioned in the “Green Living in DC blog!” (see their article: Explosive Wildfires awaken Fresh Air Consciousness) Note that the Air Quality Egg(TM) with dust sensor mentioned in the article (and supported by AQcalc) is already available for purchase from Wicked Devices. Like some recent CES announced products, It is an Internet of Things device (it reports crowdsourced pollution sensor readings to the Internet from all over the world to a public database) and has the advantage of also being somewhat usable outdoors (when shielded), but it’s currently still a kit. (On a coolness note, it is based on Nanode, a low-cost variant of the Arduino Open Source hardware prototyping platform. All of the Air Quality Egg hardware designs have been open sourced as well, so you can incorporate their schematics into your projects or products. Update: This means you could use AQEs as a platform to add wireless, crowdsourced seismic sensors as we suggest in this later blog post.)… Read the restRecent Posts
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