Posted on 11/21/2013 8:36:46 AM PST by rktman
Installing smart-home automation systems can be pricey, which is why designer Roger Yiu is giving consumers a back door to controlling your home on your mobile — the Smart Power Strip app.
The Smart Power Strip lets you power on and off any device you can plug into a conventional wall outlet. You can also set timers and read your electricity usage in real-time, all from your smartphone.
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Burglary? That’s an app for that!
I love automation and remote control as much as anyone but I will pass.
“You haven ‘t paid your Affordable Healthcare Act premium this month. I’m sorry but I cannot allow you to leave your house until you have paid that. Once paid I will unlock your doors and window and allow you to leave within the hour, however if you make a donation to The Democratic National Committee I will release them immediately”
Just drive thru a random neighborhood pressing on a garage door opener and see how many doors open. Not so many now with newer technology, but the older ones only used a few frequencies.
Anyone else have a memory flashback to reading “The Veldt”?....
Not if you set your password intelligently. It’s a wire world, adapt or die. Our home alarm has internet access, which has come in handy.
I monitor my home through a configuration I set up on my own. Everything is accessible from the Internet... if you can guess the username and 22 character password I set on my 2048-bit RSA-secured website.
There’s a hack for that.
Same here. I can even pull up the logs and see when doors/windows were opened/closed. I especially like being able to disable/enable the alarm with a key fob instead of having to go to the panel to do it.
You can do this already with an Arduino rig. Simple power on/off isn’t that difficult.
I’m roughing a system out now that incorporates room temp sensors, airflow sensors, active dampers, motorized window treatments, daylight sensors, and the HVAC controls into a whole-house control system.
Room getting too hot from sunlight? Rather than just kicking on the AC, it’d close the curtains. Need more heat from the sun in the winter months? Just the opposite. Basement room getting a little chilly? Why heat the whole house? Just route more hot air by allowing more air flow to the one room...
Sure, commercial rigs to exist, but most of them are pretty cost prohibitive. I figure I could rig this whole system up for under $1000.
And yeah, I could even add a programming hook that would let me run it off an iOS app over the Intarwebs...
Pocket dial to turn everything on.
A hackers’ dream. On. Off. On. Off. On. Off.
A burglar’s dream.
NSA knows all.
I can close the curtains myself for free and use a couple calories in the process.
They can know all they want, but they can’t access. If you want to refer to any of the myriad posts I’ve made about how to protect yourself from NSA snooping, please feel free to check out my posting history.
The NSA does not have the tools to crack high-grade encryption at will. It would take weeks if not years of dedicated computing clusters attempting billions of cipher combinations per second. The ability just does not yet exist.
Can you do it when you’re not home? When you’re asleep? Automatically based on a huge list of parameters both internal to your home and external no matter where you are in the world?
Actually the main way to break into homes even today is the simple broken window. Technology hasn’t come near taking over that distinction.
Yeah... That’s what my Wife said.
But... Can you close the blinds on your house in Minnesota when you are in Orlando Florida? Or better yet, do you want the house to do it for you without you having to do anything?
The ossibliities are pendless...
/nerdgasm
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