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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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