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Re: moving away from the remote-control paradigm



And don't you have to re-calibrate if you move furniture?
 
Wonder if I brough my laptop case into the room then walked out would that be seen as occupied?
 
Also - lifting carpets etc for wires is far from perfect too.
 
I think we're still a long way off decent, reliable occupancy detection.
 
M.
 
 
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Wednesday, August 08, 2001 7:45 PM
Subject: RE: [ukha_d] moving away from the remote-control paradigm

Yeah, I have heard of these, and I'm familiar with the claims of their
capabilities...

But I have just one or two problems with this at the moment:...

1) They are not here! - they are just vapourware at the moment...
2) I >believe< their effectiveness is dependant on having loads of aerials
buried in the room (as someone else mentioned...) - there is no chance I'm
going to (re) re-plaster a room to get a load of wire mesh in the walls...
3) even if both of the above are solved, - there is no demostrable proof
thet they will work, so until I've seen one in operation, and it's been
demonstrated to work, then I'll reserve judgement, and not get my hopes up
too high...

Paul G.




>
>I agree PIR's are well past their sell-by date in terms of technology,
>but there is an answer - the BIK Sensor!
>
>What it does is detect a presence in the room, as in a body, by some
>trick with the grounding of am EM field as far as I can tell from what
>I've read. So, in effect, it intelligently knows when someone is in the
>room or not you can then base X10 or whatever actions around that fact.
>With a bit of luck it'll live up to the hype and get rid of the poxing
>timers and PIR sensor nonsense we've had to endure. This is my biggest
>complaint from SWMBO, she presses a button on the Pronto to go to bed
>(it sets stuff up for her) and either the bog light is on too long or
>too short for her, usually the latter - you know how woman are with
>bathrooms ;-) But you get the point.
>
>Stuart G is working on getting these up and running so hopefully we'll
>get a result soon.
>
>K.
>

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