| 12 | | * interdevice control |
| 13 | | * TV can control devices like TVs, speakers, lights |
| 14 | | * phone ringing message displayed on TV and other devices |
| 15 | | * video camera sends video directly to TV or computer |
| 16 | | * new mail, etc. notifications to TV |
| | 17 | * notifications |
| | 18 | * phone ringing message, new mail, etc. displayed on TV and other devices |
| | 19 | * TV can control devices like TVs, speakers, lights |
| | 20 | * video camera sends video directly to TV or computer |
| 19 | | * use system to locate lost items |
| 20 | | * big v. small house |
| 21 | | * a big house would need the interfaces to be able to scale (scrolling through 100+ devices would not be fun) |
| 22 | | * communication would also be harder in a big house - range of wireless, etc. |
| 23 | | * form queries to "search" through available devices |
| 24 | | * devices can share metadata: |
| 25 | | * room |
| 26 | | * category (entertainment, security, etc.) |
| 27 | | * use metadata to sort through devices (can order devices in different ways - akin to the different ways songs can be sorted on your iPod) |
| 28 | | * Architecture? |
| 29 | | * centralized (aka. one base station) |
| 30 | | * fault-tolerant centralized (aka. one base station, but backups available) |
| 31 | | * ''EA: I don't know how we would do this. Any way I would do it doesn't make sense.'' |
| 32 | | * distributed (aka. no central base station - all devices can communicate with all other devices) |
| 33 | | * energy saving |
| 34 | | * turn out lights based on motion |
| 35 | | * set AC to powersave (turn up temperature in summer, down in winter) while everyone is away |
| 36 | | * poll v. event (aka, push v. pull) based communication |
| 37 | | * both should probably be available |
| 38 | | * difference between time left on microwave and fire alarm |
| 39 | | * game (there has to be some game that can take advantage of this system) |
| | 23 | * both poll and event (aka, push v. pull) based communication |
| | 24 | * difference between time left on microwave and fire alarm |
