Pachube Research
For this research, I chosen to find a feed more suited to my interest rather than choose one of the more popular feeds. I have decided to do the feed of the University of Lapland, a live sensor feed from the Interactive Environments Lab - http://pachube.com/feeds/7728
Though frozen at the moment, this feed records any time of motion occurring inside the room, light in terms of sensing whether it is on or off and the light levels and records of the temperature in Celsius and Fahrenheit along with the humidity level of the room.
As this experiment is called "Pure War," I find this interesting as it kind of reminds me of
the basic necessity of a security system. This gives me the idea of creating a security facility in the map with many light and motion sensors which are triggered when the player is nearby. I will be adding interactive things, maybe try a device to turn on and off the security system for a mission of some kind, there will be enemy guards and obstacles to make the process challenging.
UPDATE:
I think this pachube is more suited to my idea of a security system:
https://pachube.com/feeds/8483
the basic necessity of a security system. This gives me the idea of creating a security facility in the map with many light and motion sensors which are triggered when the player is nearby. I will be adding interactive things, maybe try a device to turn on and off the security system for a mission of some kind, there will be enemy guards and obstacles to make the process challenging.
UPDATE:
I think this pachube is more suited to my idea of a security system:
https://pachube.com/feeds/8483
Home Monitoring
Domotics project: Two Arduinos control the home and measure stuff, they talk to each other using I2C. One of them communicates via USB with an apache webserver which interfaces the house with my iPhone or any web-enabled device at the time it sends data to Pachube for data logging. It all runs on backup batteries in case there is a power outage. A third Atmega uC watchdogs the two main units if they ever freeze.
Features:
Alarm control and monitoring,
Temp sensing,
Ambient light sensing,
Powers lights, audio equipment, curtains, A/C, heating.
It combines the sensors wisely, i.e: If it's dark but senses motion, then turns lights on for a while, or if it's dark inside but light outside then open the curtains and so forth...
IR local remote control,
Full Web control and monitoring,
Webcam monitoring (through the web interface)
I2C realtime clock,
Serial enabled LCD display for local user-interface,
Uses arduino internal EEPROM to remember last status of everything in case the watchdog resets them.
Pachube, Automation and more
Temp sensing,
Ambient light sensing,
Powers lights, audio equipment, curtains, A/C, heating.
It combines the sensors wisely, i.e: If it's dark but senses motion, then turns lights on for a while, or if it's dark inside but light outside then open the curtains and so forth...
IR local remote control,
Full Web control and monitoring,
Webcam monitoring (through the web interface)
I2C realtime clock,
Serial enabled LCD display for local user-interface,
Uses arduino internal EEPROM to remember last status of everything in case the watchdog resets them.
Pachube, Automation and more
