If there's a market for this, then why can't I even buy a thermostat
with a timer on it to turn the temperature down at night and up in the
morning? The most basic home automation, which could have been built
cheaply 30 years ago, is still, if available at all, so rare that I've
never seen it.
Huh? I've never lived in a home without such (nor been aware that they were
rare).
----- Original Message -----
From: "Philip Goetz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <agi@v2.listbox.com>
Sent: Thursday, January 11, 2007 1:29 PM
Subject: Re: [agi] SOTA
On 06/01/07, Gary Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I like the idea of the house being the central AI though and
> communicating
> to
> house robots through an wireless encrypted protocol to prevent
> inadvertant
> commands from other systems and hacking.
This is the way it's going to go in my opinion. In a house or office the
robots would really be dumb actuators - puppets - being controlled from a
central AI which integrates multiple systems together. That way you can
keep the cost and maintenance requirements of the robot to a bare
minimum.
Such a system also future-proofs the robot in a rapidly changing software
world, and allows intelligence to be provided as an internet based
service.
If there's a market for this, then why can't I even buy a thermostat
with a timer on it to turn the temperature down at night and up in the
morning? The most basic home automation, which could have been built
cheaply 30 years ago, is still, if available at all, so rare that I've
never seen it.
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