Hi Stephen,

I would suggest to take not the unit 'house', but the street, the
neighbourhood as starting point. The idea for our brico smart city is to
leave all camera's, infrastructure of securities intact, but feed that
data to the neighbourhoods, not the city mayors,

Greetings, Rob

On Mon, 5 Mar 2012, stephen kovats wrote:

> hi John, Rob and Bricos,
>
> the 'house' if planned, built etc ... would be in an easily serviceable location, probably in canada. The issue here - for me, for now, is not to create the stand-alone self supporting system, power generating water waste recycling etc (as with Makrolab, for example) although it is about making as small a footprint as possible. Perhaps another way to look at it is as a 'data autonomous' house.
>
> cheers,
> stephen
>
> On 05.03.2012, at 23:02, John Hopkins wrote:
>
>> On 3/5/12 06:36, Jean-Noël Montagné wrote:
>>
>> agreed J-N!
>>
>>>> In your opinions, what would or could an 'Internet of Things' ... or 'Open
>>>> Source' house be, and how would this differ from obvious experiments in green,
>>>> efficient and digitally responsive architectures?
>>
>> probably useful to first check on the availability of electricity, and the stability, areal extent, and quality. Most places in the techno-social periphery have supplies that are good (clean enough) for reliably running 'fridges, lights, and other DC objects -- but for use with step-down transformers (any small electronic device operates this way), the instability wreaks havoc (I'm sure some of you have experienced this effect -- that lovely whizzzzzz-pop! sound that an air-gap/induction transformer (converter) makes when it gets a voltage spike. The smell is unmistakable!
>>
>> No use deploying a high-tech plan if you have to run it on battery or generator or other unstable E supply... In the first two cases, it simply causes a deeper dependency on the globally-deployed techno-social infrastructure (which erases any gains of autonomous sustainability....)...
>>
>>> 1/I don't want my house, my life, being monitored in real time, as my websurf is
>>> monitored anytime by the BigBrowser vampires.
>>
>> jep...
>>
>> cheers,
>> jh
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