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RE: The Solution to Room Occupation Detection


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  • Subject: RE: The Solution to Room Occupation Detection
  • From: "Timothy Morris" <timothy.morris@xxxxxxx>
  • Date: Fri, 14 Jun 2002 20:39:54 +0100
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Have you read any of the experiences of “normal” people in the Orange connected home, and the Laing “Internet house”?

 

Barcode scanner on a fridge? The amount of time you spend getting the thing working is probably more than you’d spend jotting things down on a blackboard for years.

 

Don’t get me wrong, I’m not deliberately trying to come across as a luddite, I’m just trying to say that whenever you get the urge to automate, as we all do from time to time, take a step back, and think to yourself, is it worth it, and will it make life better? Asking the wife is probably a reasonable sanity check J

 

Tim

 

-----Original Message-----
From: Mark McCall [mailto:mark@xxxxxxx]
Sent: 14 June 2002 20:29
To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx Subject: Re: [ukha_d] The Solution to Room Occupation Detection

 

> HA is fantastic in the right circumstances, but it is too easy to over-automate, so it actually gets in the way rather

> than making life easier.

 

Gimme an example Tim?  The only thing I have un-done is automated lighting in my study, but I still have automated lighting in plenty of other locations.

 

As you say, your circumstances are unusual, but just because you don't want some of the more advanced stuff is no reason to say it's overkill for others.

 

M.

 

 

 



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