Saturday 28 April 2018

You may soon be able to control your home with a smart wall

Forget a smart speaker, soon you may be able to control your smart home with a few taps on your wall. Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University and Disney Research have developed a way to make your walls smart, at a cost of $20 per meter, as spotted by NBC News.

Dubbed Wall++, the researchers found that they could use conductive paint and a custom sensor board to create electrodes and turn a standard wall into a gesture-sensing touchpad and an “electromagnetic sensor to detect and track electrical devices and appliances.”

The system could potentially monitor activity in rooms, automatically adjust light levels when a TV is turned on or off, or send an alert when an appliance goes off. The Wall++ could also track people wearing certain...

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from
https://www.theverge.com/circuitbreaker/2018/4/28/17289976/smart-wall-carnegie-mellon-disney-home

from
https://ifeeltechinc.blogspot.com/2018/04/you-may-soon-be-able-to-control-your.html

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