Cool. Like the house in Minority Report (almost).

Hey CODEISLIFE, you mispelled the following words:

mis-spelled should be misspelled
actualy should be actually
definately should be definitely
uinexpensive should be inexpensive

quote:

"This is actualy a good glimpse into the near future. Google for mote sensors. Simple monitoring isn't the goal though. It's not much good to have a system to simply tell you the temp is dropping because of a door left open if the system can't also close the door...and send an alarm if this turns out not to be possible, etc. Or to over-ride the thermostat because why crank up the heat if a door is open. The floorplan display is cute but not necessary. We used SNMP and text messaging to monitor data center health at one job I had. Every server had sensors, so that out of a whole multistory building there would be an email and SNMP event telling us the exact location of a fault. That was only when human intervention was required. Over temp conditions resulted in higher fan speeds - etc, or shut fans and systems off in the event of fire since the last thing a rack fire needs is high speed fans (it did happen once). His system is nice but it doesn't take an entire wiring closet to implement. Nice to see the idea implemented in a home though. What he needs to next is come with some good AI or at least some good scripts to be executed based on error conditions since nothing like that was even hinted at in the video. Full home automation is most definately the future. If you want to see a simple uinexpensive system that's far more powerful than this though, go browse the Smart Home website, they sell a bunch of home automation hardware and software (speaking only as a customer). Most of what's shown in the video is a decade or more out of date. Nice work for one guy though - like he said, he used what he had lying around.

BTW, you mis-spelled "therefor" above. LOL"

I just noticed I spelled misspelled (correct) as mispelled (incorrect). Heh.