What..?
qyron
joined 1 year ago
First one, completely agree. The second one, meh...
May it work well and always accomplish your needs
The notion of home automation is not something that aggravates me per se but solutions have been made for some problems that never existed before.
This is even worse when we factor that many accessibility issues are addressed through simple measures that many times must be accomplished when basic maintenance is done, like rewiring or fittings renewal.
The timed sockets I mentioned I got acquainted it when I first saw an electric water heater. At 3000W, it could be an expensive beast to maintain. A €15 mechanical socket watch made possible to have the equipment only run at preset intervals, thus saving power and avoid possible overheating. These very basic tools can be used to do the same work IoT does at a fraction of the work.
And the most extreme solution, to provide help to a nearly bedridden relative, which involved setting up a complete subsidiary jumper box inside a room did not involve destroying or permantly altering a house that wasn't self owned; it wasn't pretty to look at but 2 days of work could be done with in less than twenty minutes to return the house to the original condition.
I'm not getting younger but unless IoT gets to a point where it can be fully self contained, with no hidden call-back-home features, I'm going fully mechanical.
I'm not that old but I grew surrounded by older people with several degrees of mobility and other painful conditions amd none ever required go to such points.
Issues with lights were solved by moving the height at which the switches were placed. Certain potentially dangerous appliances were placed with timed mechanical sockets or a special purpose circuit breaker was put in place. Low power night lights for safety during dark hours.
Simple, very cheap and as safe as possible solutions.
IoT is not a solution for me, unless you can make sure your entire network can live fully disconnected. Otherwise, no thank you.
I won't be adding anything to the conversation but I have to ask: why does a light bulb require internet/network access?
Right now I'm feeling very old. It feels a bit too much.
Debian for universal rule.
Nah... he is actually and very subtly admitting to be a pastafarian.
Sure! Remind me the address again. And I'll make sure to take a cream pie with me.
I asked for generic examples; no need to go into detail.
Oh, and if you are trying to pursue a career in comedy, work on it harder. Doesn't parse very well over text. And if the text is not good, no acting can compensate for it.
Care to share a few generic examples of such important things?
Unless you have a production plant, where machines have to be handled, maintained and supervised, you're spouting nonsense.
In the typical company you don't need an at site presence. You don't even need "a site". People are not randomly walking in the premises, thus requiring assistance.
Even a maintenance service provider, with teams on the road, doesn't need a fully staffed office. These will require depots, wharehouses, tool shops and locations for physical storage, where people really need to be, but not offices. At best, the boss - you - can be there, if the company is small or have a rotating staffer to receive paper work, if the infrastructure is still resisting to leave paper behind.
Where the work is essentially flow of information and data, there are secure channels to provide workflow and communication, be it internal, inbound or outbound.
I worked at a medical engineering company in the early 2000s and back then we were doing like that, using email, skype and fax machines. Nowadays it is even simpler.
Just because you can, doesn't mean you should.
Philosophy should be taught from very early. The hability to think, argue, relate to others and understand others while being capable of express your ideas is extremely important.