Patrick Smith software / business / design / social good

Posts Tagged ‘homeautomation’

Survey of Home Monitoring & Control Systems at the Solar Decathlon 2009

I’d like to be able to program my house, using common web development languages and techniques (e.g. REST-based API’s).
If the 2009 Solar Decathlon is any indication, that’s a long way from happening.
I surveyed eleven of the twenty teams about their monitoring and control systems, focusing in particular the software design of their systems.