This aims to point out the hidden risks of bringing in IoT (Internet of Things) devices inside your home and how you can prevent them.
#Infographics #IoT
https://houseofit.com.au/risks-you-take-when-you-embrace-iot-devices/
This document provides information about an energy monitor product. The energy monitor uses sensors to measure electrical current passing through a home's electricity meter. It sends this information wirelessly to a storage server and display unit to show real-time power usage. The energy monitor allows users to better visualize appliance energy consumption and receive alerts to save energy. It can help save money by comparing usage to others and informing users of high consumption appliances. The product costs $350 for installation and has a $5 monthly fee, and can be purchased from stores like Home Depot and Canada Tire.
The United States spends over $1 trillion on energy annually. Individual households typically spend around $1,300 per year on electricity alone. Small changes like turning off unused appliances when not in use can save a household around $200 per year in energy costs. Many apps have been created to help users monitor their energy usage and savings, but most are lacking. LOLO was created with a goal-directed design process involving user research, modeling, and requirements definition to address the shortcomings of other apps and help users effectively save energy and money.
This document describes a home energy management system prototype that monitors and controls residential energy use. The goals are to prototype a lab-scale system, implement an intelligent scheduling algorithm, and design a user-friendly web interface. The team leads are Cliff Huang, Timothy Kwan, Kevin Sison, and Vinh Trinh. The system uses XBee communication between devices, a Java application for scheduling and the web interface, and sensors and relays to monitor and control devices. The total estimated cost is $398. Results will include managing multiple devices, creating efficient schedules, and viewing power use from mobile devices.
Presented by Sami Repo, Tampere University of Technology and Mikael Latvala, There, Finland at the IEA DSM workshop in Espoo, Finland on 14 November 2012.
This document provides a marketing plan for Nest Protect, an intelligent smoke and carbon monoxide (CO2) alarm created by Nest Labs. It begins with an executive summary of Nest Labs and Nest Protect. The document then analyzes the smoke alarm industry, competitors, customers, and outlines a marketing strategy to launch Nest Protect and achieve 5% market share in the first year by targeting upper class homeowners interested in design and technology. The plan emphasizes Nest Protect's unique technological features and sleek design over safety.
This document summarizes retirement planning and life assurance provisions for Alzheimer Scotland employees. It discusses key sources of retirement income like state pensions and personal pension funds. It outlines important questions for retirement planning such as saving targets and dates. The document also reviews Alzheimer Scotland's pension plan through NEST, including contribution levels, investment options, and benefits. Employees have life assurance of 3 times salary through Aviva that is paid to nominated beneficiaries upon death.
This document provides information about an energy monitor product. The energy monitor uses sensors to measure electrical current passing through a home's electricity meter. It sends this information wirelessly to a storage server and display unit to show real-time power usage. The energy monitor allows users to better visualize appliance energy consumption and receive alerts to save energy. It can help save money by comparing usage to others and informing users of high consumption appliances. The product costs $350 for installation and has a $5 monthly fee, and can be purchased from stores like Home Depot and Canada Tire.
The United States spends over $1 trillion on energy annually. Individual households typically spend around $1,300 per year on electricity alone. Small changes like turning off unused appliances when not in use can save a household around $200 per year in energy costs. Many apps have been created to help users monitor their energy usage and savings, but most are lacking. LOLO was created with a goal-directed design process involving user research, modeling, and requirements definition to address the shortcomings of other apps and help users effectively save energy and money.
This document describes a home energy management system prototype that monitors and controls residential energy use. The goals are to prototype a lab-scale system, implement an intelligent scheduling algorithm, and design a user-friendly web interface. The team leads are Cliff Huang, Timothy Kwan, Kevin Sison, and Vinh Trinh. The system uses XBee communication between devices, a Java application for scheduling and the web interface, and sensors and relays to monitor and control devices. The total estimated cost is $398. Results will include managing multiple devices, creating efficient schedules, and viewing power use from mobile devices.
Presented by Sami Repo, Tampere University of Technology and Mikael Latvala, There, Finland at the IEA DSM workshop in Espoo, Finland on 14 November 2012.
This document provides a marketing plan for Nest Protect, an intelligent smoke and carbon monoxide (CO2) alarm created by Nest Labs. It begins with an executive summary of Nest Labs and Nest Protect. The document then analyzes the smoke alarm industry, competitors, customers, and outlines a marketing strategy to launch Nest Protect and achieve 5% market share in the first year by targeting upper class homeowners interested in design and technology. The plan emphasizes Nest Protect's unique technological features and sleek design over safety.
This document summarizes retirement planning and life assurance provisions for Alzheimer Scotland employees. It discusses key sources of retirement income like state pensions and personal pension funds. It outlines important questions for retirement planning such as saving targets and dates. The document also reviews Alzheimer Scotland's pension plan through NEST, including contribution levels, investment options, and benefits. Employees have life assurance of 3 times salary through Aviva that is paid to nominated beneficiaries upon death.
My team created a new business model for Nest Labs using the business model canvas. We decided to introduce a new service to be integrated with Nest Protect and other Nest products. This service, called SafeNest, will operate as a safety and security system for a low subscription fee. To use SafeNest customers must have a Nest Protect. Hardware used to enhance the SafeNest service are sensors and a specialty Nest/Jawbone bracelet we invented called Nestlet.
The purpose of this service is to increase consumer investment in the Nest system. As the leader and pioneer of the "Internet of Things," our strategy is to grab as much Home Automation market share as possible, as quickly as possible before our Apple launches the HomeKit. This service will also steal market share from the Home Safety and Security market (ADT, LifeAlert).
Smart building controls and energy management system trends BSRIA
This document summarizes trends in smart building controls and energy management systems. It identifies key trends such as modular/off-site construction, LEDs, wireless communicating controls, mobility/apps, decentralization/integration, analytics, and wearables. It also provides overviews of the smart home market, home automation evolution, the North American smart homes market breakdown, new studies on hydronic valves and controls, and the dimensions of the North American intelligent buildings market. Finally, it discusses threats and opportunities in the building automation and control systems market and the growing world building energy management systems market.
2015 State of the Smart Home Report | Icontrol NetworksIan Gertler
By 2022, a typical family home could contain more than
500 smart devices according to Gartner. Icontrol Networks issued their second "State of the Smart Home" report ... and there were definitely some interesting results. See the details from Icontrol here ...
These slides use concepts from my (Jeff Funk) course entitled Biz Models for Hi-Tech Products to analyze the business model for a Nest Lab’s Smart Thermostat. This thermostat learns user behavior, uses motion sensors to detect human presence, and programs itself. We recommend that Nest sell directly to end users and work with HVAC, construction and building automation companies to have their thermostat installed in new buildings. Nest, which was recently acquired by Google, can profit from the sale of these devices and the sale of software apps that can add functionality to the product.
Presentation Smart Home With Home AutomationArifur Rahman
This document provides an overview of a presentation on smart home automation. It discusses how home automation can automate lighting, HVAC, appliances and other systems for improved convenience, comfort, energy efficiency and security. It describes how smart homes can be remotely controlled and monitored, including security, entertainment and information functions. It outlines the various wired and wireless devices used in home automation and popular software options like Linux, Mister House and Heyu. The presentation also includes diagrams of sample home automation architectures and a remote web interface.
Luxury home automation wasn’t a face of everyday life. Today it is, though gradually! Directly controlling and seamlessly staying connected with the home systems you use every day via a mobile device would significantly enhance your quality of life. It is not only about remotely controlling the lights, AC, fan, audio systems, curtains, television, kitchen appliances, garage doors, sprinklers from your smartphone from anywhere. Again it is not merely about regularly monitoring the security of your home and your kids from your workplace miles away. It is all about convenience and safety. It is about exploiting the latest of what technology has on offer. It is about saving energy significantly and contributing to the creation of a greener earth through use of energy efficient systems. A smart home offers all of these – comfort, convenience, monetary savings, and safety. Smart Automation has emerged as a reliable and leading service provider in this segment.
The document summarizes the findings of a GfK study on consumer perspectives on smart homes globally. It finds that while awareness and appeal of smart home technology is high, adoption remains low due to barriers like cost and privacy/security concerns. Additionally, the market lacks interoperability between different vendors' devices. The study suggests the smart home market will grow more slowly than expected until these challenges are addressed by creating easy to use and integrated solutions.
Cosa hanno in comune un mattoncino Lego e la backdoor XZ?Speck&Tech
ABSTRACT: A prima vista, un mattoncino Lego e la backdoor XZ potrebbero avere in comune il fatto di essere entrambi blocchi di costruzione, o dipendenze di progetti creativi e software. La realtà è che un mattoncino Lego e il caso della backdoor XZ hanno molto di più di tutto ciò in comune.
Partecipate alla presentazione per immergervi in una storia di interoperabilità, standard e formati aperti, per poi discutere del ruolo importante che i contributori hanno in una comunità open source sostenibile.
BIO: Sostenitrice del software libero e dei formati standard e aperti. È stata un membro attivo dei progetti Fedora e openSUSE e ha co-fondato l'Associazione LibreItalia dove è stata coinvolta in diversi eventi, migrazioni e formazione relativi a LibreOffice. In precedenza ha lavorato a migrazioni e corsi di formazione su LibreOffice per diverse amministrazioni pubbliche e privati. Da gennaio 2020 lavora in SUSE come Software Release Engineer per Uyuni e SUSE Manager e quando non segue la sua passione per i computer e per Geeko coltiva la sua curiosità per l'astronomia (da cui deriva il suo nickname deneb_alpha).
Climate Impact of Software Testing at Nordic Testing DaysKari Kakkonen
My slides at Nordic Testing Days 6.6.2024
Climate impact / sustainability of software testing discussed on the talk. ICT and testing must carry their part of global responsibility to help with the climat warming. We can minimize the carbon footprint but we can also have a carbon handprint, a positive impact on the climate. Quality characteristics can be added with sustainability, and then measured continuously. Test environments can be used less, and in smaller scale and on demand. Test techniques can be used in optimizing or minimizing number of tests. Test automation can be used to speed up testing.
Best 20 SEO Techniques To Improve Website Visibility In SERPPixlogix Infotech
Boost your website's visibility with proven SEO techniques! Our latest blog dives into essential strategies to enhance your online presence, increase traffic, and rank higher on search engines. From keyword optimization to quality content creation, learn how to make your site stand out in the crowded digital landscape. Discover actionable tips and expert insights to elevate your SEO game.
Essentials of Automations: The Art of Triggers and Actions in FMESafe Software
In this second installment of our Essentials of Automations webinar series, we’ll explore the landscape of triggers and actions, guiding you through the nuances of authoring and adapting workspaces for seamless automations. Gain an understanding of the full spectrum of triggers and actions available in FME, empowering you to enhance your workspaces for efficient automation.
We’ll kick things off by showcasing the most commonly used event-based triggers, introducing you to various automation workflows like manual triggers, schedules, directory watchers, and more. Plus, see how these elements play out in real scenarios.
Whether you’re tweaking your current setup or building from the ground up, this session will arm you with the tools and insights needed to transform your FME usage into a powerhouse of productivity. Join us to discover effective strategies that simplify complex processes, enhancing your productivity and transforming your data management practices with FME. Let’s turn complexity into clarity and make your workspaces work wonders!
Building Production Ready Search Pipelines with Spark and MilvusZilliz
Spark is the widely used ETL tool for processing, indexing and ingesting data to serving stack for search. Milvus is the production-ready open-source vector database. In this talk we will show how to use Spark to process unstructured data to extract vector representations, and push the vectors to Milvus vector database for search serving.
In his public lecture, Christian Timmerer provides insights into the fascinating history of video streaming, starting from its humble beginnings before YouTube to the groundbreaking technologies that now dominate platforms like Netflix and ORF ON. Timmerer also presents provocative contributions of his own that have significantly influenced the industry. He concludes by looking at future challenges and invites the audience to join in a discussion.
Communications Mining Series - Zero to Hero - Session 1DianaGray10
This session provides introduction to UiPath Communication Mining, importance and platform overview. You will acquire a good understand of the phases in Communication Mining as we go over the platform with you. Topics covered:
• Communication Mining Overview
• Why is it important?
• How can it help today’s business and the benefits
• Phases in Communication Mining
• Demo on Platform overview
• Q/A
Full-RAG: A modern architecture for hyper-personalizationZilliz
Mike Del Balso, CEO & Co-Founder at Tecton, presents "Full RAG," a novel approach to AI recommendation systems, aiming to push beyond the limitations of traditional models through a deep integration of contextual insights and real-time data, leveraging the Retrieval-Augmented Generation architecture. This talk will outline Full RAG's potential to significantly enhance personalization, address engineering challenges such as data management and model training, and introduce data enrichment with reranking as a key solution. Attendees will gain crucial insights into the importance of hyperpersonalization in AI, the capabilities of Full RAG for advanced personalization, and strategies for managing complex data integrations for deploying cutting-edge AI solutions.
My team created a new business model for Nest Labs using the business model canvas. We decided to introduce a new service to be integrated with Nest Protect and other Nest products. This service, called SafeNest, will operate as a safety and security system for a low subscription fee. To use SafeNest customers must have a Nest Protect. Hardware used to enhance the SafeNest service are sensors and a specialty Nest/Jawbone bracelet we invented called Nestlet.
The purpose of this service is to increase consumer investment in the Nest system. As the leader and pioneer of the "Internet of Things," our strategy is to grab as much Home Automation market share as possible, as quickly as possible before our Apple launches the HomeKit. This service will also steal market share from the Home Safety and Security market (ADT, LifeAlert).
Smart building controls and energy management system trends BSRIA
This document summarizes trends in smart building controls and energy management systems. It identifies key trends such as modular/off-site construction, LEDs, wireless communicating controls, mobility/apps, decentralization/integration, analytics, and wearables. It also provides overviews of the smart home market, home automation evolution, the North American smart homes market breakdown, new studies on hydronic valves and controls, and the dimensions of the North American intelligent buildings market. Finally, it discusses threats and opportunities in the building automation and control systems market and the growing world building energy management systems market.
2015 State of the Smart Home Report | Icontrol NetworksIan Gertler
By 2022, a typical family home could contain more than
500 smart devices according to Gartner. Icontrol Networks issued their second "State of the Smart Home" report ... and there were definitely some interesting results. See the details from Icontrol here ...
These slides use concepts from my (Jeff Funk) course entitled Biz Models for Hi-Tech Products to analyze the business model for a Nest Lab’s Smart Thermostat. This thermostat learns user behavior, uses motion sensors to detect human presence, and programs itself. We recommend that Nest sell directly to end users and work with HVAC, construction and building automation companies to have their thermostat installed in new buildings. Nest, which was recently acquired by Google, can profit from the sale of these devices and the sale of software apps that can add functionality to the product.
Presentation Smart Home With Home AutomationArifur Rahman
This document provides an overview of a presentation on smart home automation. It discusses how home automation can automate lighting, HVAC, appliances and other systems for improved convenience, comfort, energy efficiency and security. It describes how smart homes can be remotely controlled and monitored, including security, entertainment and information functions. It outlines the various wired and wireless devices used in home automation and popular software options like Linux, Mister House and Heyu. The presentation also includes diagrams of sample home automation architectures and a remote web interface.
Luxury home automation wasn’t a face of everyday life. Today it is, though gradually! Directly controlling and seamlessly staying connected with the home systems you use every day via a mobile device would significantly enhance your quality of life. It is not only about remotely controlling the lights, AC, fan, audio systems, curtains, television, kitchen appliances, garage doors, sprinklers from your smartphone from anywhere. Again it is not merely about regularly monitoring the security of your home and your kids from your workplace miles away. It is all about convenience and safety. It is about exploiting the latest of what technology has on offer. It is about saving energy significantly and contributing to the creation of a greener earth through use of energy efficient systems. A smart home offers all of these – comfort, convenience, monetary savings, and safety. Smart Automation has emerged as a reliable and leading service provider in this segment.
The document summarizes the findings of a GfK study on consumer perspectives on smart homes globally. It finds that while awareness and appeal of smart home technology is high, adoption remains low due to barriers like cost and privacy/security concerns. Additionally, the market lacks interoperability between different vendors' devices. The study suggests the smart home market will grow more slowly than expected until these challenges are addressed by creating easy to use and integrated solutions.
Cosa hanno in comune un mattoncino Lego e la backdoor XZ?Speck&Tech
ABSTRACT: A prima vista, un mattoncino Lego e la backdoor XZ potrebbero avere in comune il fatto di essere entrambi blocchi di costruzione, o dipendenze di progetti creativi e software. La realtà è che un mattoncino Lego e il caso della backdoor XZ hanno molto di più di tutto ciò in comune.
Partecipate alla presentazione per immergervi in una storia di interoperabilità, standard e formati aperti, per poi discutere del ruolo importante che i contributori hanno in una comunità open source sostenibile.
BIO: Sostenitrice del software libero e dei formati standard e aperti. È stata un membro attivo dei progetti Fedora e openSUSE e ha co-fondato l'Associazione LibreItalia dove è stata coinvolta in diversi eventi, migrazioni e formazione relativi a LibreOffice. In precedenza ha lavorato a migrazioni e corsi di formazione su LibreOffice per diverse amministrazioni pubbliche e privati. Da gennaio 2020 lavora in SUSE come Software Release Engineer per Uyuni e SUSE Manager e quando non segue la sua passione per i computer e per Geeko coltiva la sua curiosità per l'astronomia (da cui deriva il suo nickname deneb_alpha).
Climate Impact of Software Testing at Nordic Testing DaysKari Kakkonen
My slides at Nordic Testing Days 6.6.2024
Climate impact / sustainability of software testing discussed on the talk. ICT and testing must carry their part of global responsibility to help with the climat warming. We can minimize the carbon footprint but we can also have a carbon handprint, a positive impact on the climate. Quality characteristics can be added with sustainability, and then measured continuously. Test environments can be used less, and in smaller scale and on demand. Test techniques can be used in optimizing or minimizing number of tests. Test automation can be used to speed up testing.
Best 20 SEO Techniques To Improve Website Visibility In SERPPixlogix Infotech
Boost your website's visibility with proven SEO techniques! Our latest blog dives into essential strategies to enhance your online presence, increase traffic, and rank higher on search engines. From keyword optimization to quality content creation, learn how to make your site stand out in the crowded digital landscape. Discover actionable tips and expert insights to elevate your SEO game.
Essentials of Automations: The Art of Triggers and Actions in FMESafe Software
In this second installment of our Essentials of Automations webinar series, we’ll explore the landscape of triggers and actions, guiding you through the nuances of authoring and adapting workspaces for seamless automations. Gain an understanding of the full spectrum of triggers and actions available in FME, empowering you to enhance your workspaces for efficient automation.
We’ll kick things off by showcasing the most commonly used event-based triggers, introducing you to various automation workflows like manual triggers, schedules, directory watchers, and more. Plus, see how these elements play out in real scenarios.
Whether you’re tweaking your current setup or building from the ground up, this session will arm you with the tools and insights needed to transform your FME usage into a powerhouse of productivity. Join us to discover effective strategies that simplify complex processes, enhancing your productivity and transforming your data management practices with FME. Let’s turn complexity into clarity and make your workspaces work wonders!
Building Production Ready Search Pipelines with Spark and MilvusZilliz
Spark is the widely used ETL tool for processing, indexing and ingesting data to serving stack for search. Milvus is the production-ready open-source vector database. In this talk we will show how to use Spark to process unstructured data to extract vector representations, and push the vectors to Milvus vector database for search serving.
In his public lecture, Christian Timmerer provides insights into the fascinating history of video streaming, starting from its humble beginnings before YouTube to the groundbreaking technologies that now dominate platforms like Netflix and ORF ON. Timmerer also presents provocative contributions of his own that have significantly influenced the industry. He concludes by looking at future challenges and invites the audience to join in a discussion.
Communications Mining Series - Zero to Hero - Session 1DianaGray10
This session provides introduction to UiPath Communication Mining, importance and platform overview. You will acquire a good understand of the phases in Communication Mining as we go over the platform with you. Topics covered:
• Communication Mining Overview
• Why is it important?
• How can it help today’s business and the benefits
• Phases in Communication Mining
• Demo on Platform overview
• Q/A
Full-RAG: A modern architecture for hyper-personalizationZilliz
Mike Del Balso, CEO & Co-Founder at Tecton, presents "Full RAG," a novel approach to AI recommendation systems, aiming to push beyond the limitations of traditional models through a deep integration of contextual insights and real-time data, leveraging the Retrieval-Augmented Generation architecture. This talk will outline Full RAG's potential to significantly enhance personalization, address engineering challenges such as data management and model training, and introduce data enrichment with reranking as a key solution. Attendees will gain crucial insights into the importance of hyperpersonalization in AI, the capabilities of Full RAG for advanced personalization, and strategies for managing complex data integrations for deploying cutting-edge AI solutions.
Unlocking Productivity: Leveraging the Potential of Copilot in Microsoft 365, a presentation by Christoforos Vlachos, Senior Solutions Manager – Modern Workplace, Uni Systems
Pushing the limits of ePRTC: 100ns holdover for 100 daysAdtran
At WSTS 2024, Alon Stern explored the topic of parametric holdover and explained how recent research findings can be implemented in real-world PNT networks to achieve 100 nanoseconds of accuracy for up to 100 days.
Threats to mobile devices are more prevalent and increasing in scope and complexity. Users of mobile devices desire to take full advantage of the features
available on those devices, but many of the features provide convenience and capability but sacrifice security. This best practices guide outlines steps the users can take to better protect personal devices and information.
Removing Uninteresting Bytes in Software FuzzingAftab Hussain
Imagine a world where software fuzzing, the process of mutating bytes in test seeds to uncover hidden and erroneous program behaviors, becomes faster and more effective. A lot depends on the initial seeds, which can significantly dictate the trajectory of a fuzzing campaign, particularly in terms of how long it takes to uncover interesting behaviour in your code. We introduce DIAR, a technique designed to speedup fuzzing campaigns by pinpointing and eliminating those uninteresting bytes in the seeds. Picture this: instead of wasting valuable resources on meaningless mutations in large, bloated seeds, DIAR removes the unnecessary bytes, streamlining the entire process.
In this work, we equipped AFL, a popular fuzzer, with DIAR and examined two critical Linux libraries -- Libxml's xmllint, a tool for parsing xml documents, and Binutil's readelf, an essential debugging and security analysis command-line tool used to display detailed information about ELF (Executable and Linkable Format). Our preliminary results show that AFL+DIAR does not only discover new paths more quickly but also achieves higher coverage overall. This work thus showcases how starting with lean and optimized seeds can lead to faster, more comprehensive fuzzing campaigns -- and DIAR helps you find such seeds.
- These are slides of the talk given at IEEE International Conference on Software Testing Verification and Validation Workshop, ICSTW 2022.
GraphRAG for Life Science to increase LLM accuracyTomaz Bratanic
GraphRAG for life science domain, where you retriever information from biomedical knowledge graphs using LLMs to increase the accuracy and performance of generated answers
Dr. Sean Tan, Head of Data Science, Changi Airport Group
Discover how Changi Airport Group (CAG) leverages graph technologies and generative AI to revolutionize their search capabilities. This session delves into the unique search needs of CAG’s diverse passengers and customers, showcasing how graph data structures enhance the accuracy and relevance of AI-generated search results, mitigating the risk of “hallucinations” and improving the overall customer journey.
Driving Business Innovation: Latest Generative AI Advancements & Success StorySafe Software
Are you ready to revolutionize how you handle data? Join us for a webinar where we’ll bring you up to speed with the latest advancements in Generative AI technology and discover how leveraging FME with tools from giants like Google Gemini, Amazon, and Microsoft OpenAI can supercharge your workflow efficiency.
During the hour, we’ll take you through:
Guest Speaker Segment with Hannah Barrington: Dive into the world of dynamic real estate marketing with Hannah, the Marketing Manager at Workspace Group. Hear firsthand how their team generates engaging descriptions for thousands of office units by integrating diverse data sources—from PDF floorplans to web pages—using FME transformers, like OpenAIVisionConnector and AnthropicVisionConnector. This use case will show you how GenAI can streamline content creation for marketing across the board.
Ollama Use Case: Learn how Scenario Specialist Dmitri Bagh has utilized Ollama within FME to input data, create custom models, and enhance security protocols. This segment will include demos to illustrate the full capabilities of FME in AI-driven processes.
Custom AI Models: Discover how to leverage FME to build personalized AI models using your data. Whether it’s populating a model with local data for added security or integrating public AI tools, find out how FME facilitates a versatile and secure approach to AI.
We’ll wrap up with a live Q&A session where you can engage with our experts on your specific use cases, and learn more about optimizing your data workflows with AI.
This webinar is ideal for professionals seeking to harness the power of AI within their data management systems while ensuring high levels of customization and security. Whether you're a novice or an expert, gain actionable insights and strategies to elevate your data processes. Join us to see how FME and AI can revolutionize how you work with data!