Introduction

The first week of Crysis i have been playing around with the landscape tools, I imported some quick SketchUp models with custom textures, applied a custom texture to a vehicle and added a flowgraph to control the glow of certain materials determined by the proximity of the player to the entity.

pachube.com

http://pachube.com/feeds/8483

Home Monitoring

What an interesting concept. It is such a great idea to have access to so much real time data. This data collected via senses feeds into mechanisms which perform actions around the house, creating a smart home. For example, if it is dark it will sense movement and switch on the light or open a blind. If it is hot, the air con will be switched on. It would be so efficient to design a building incorporating this sort of technology. It would also be beneficial to visualise this project in CRYSIS, using the flow graphs you can begin to see how this data could be implemented or how sensors create a dynamic environment.

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Domotics project: Two Arduinos control the home and measure stuff, they talk to each other using I2C. One of them communicates via USB with an apache webserver which interfaces the house with my iPhone or any web-enabled device at the time it sends data to Pachube for data logging. It all runs on backup batteries in case there is a power outage. A third Atmega uC watchdogs the two main units if they ever freeze.

Features:

Alarm control and monitoring,
Temp sensing,
Ambient light sensing,
Powers lights, audio equipment, curtains, A/C, heating.
It combines the sensors wisely, i.e: If it's dark but senses motion, then turns lights on for a while, or if it's dark inside but light outside then open the curtains and so forth...
IR local remote control,
Full Web control and monitoring,
Webcam monitoring (through the web interface)
I2C realtime clock,
Serial enabled LCD display for local user-interface,
Uses arduino internal EEPROM to remember last status of everything in case the watchdog resets them.
Pachube, Automation and more!

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https://pachube.com/feeds/2557

This feed on home energy use can give some insight into when people occupy the house. It would be interesting to see how this data compares with data collected 10 years ago.