On the Isle of Wight, from a 16th Century Cottage comes tweets!
Andy Stanford-Clark, an IBM computer engineer, who lives on the Isle of Wight, in the UK, and in a 16th century thatched Elizabethan Cottage, has wired up his home to twitter!
The building ‘itself’ can tweet!
Andy wired his home with sensors to tweet status updates i.e. “A mouse has been caught in the study.” Any device in the house can send a message to twitter about what it’s doing! Andy receives tweets to his mobile phone about open windows, left-on lights, mouse traps and broken garden hoses. The house tweets it’s energy use every time an additional $16 has been spent on utilities. Andy predicts this technology will be available to every home in just two to three years.
Andy Stanford-Clark on Twitter
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