Your Smart Home Can Track You...

The majority of smart home technologies can track or monitor you and your home on some level, but a lot of times those tracking functions have to be programmed into the system to some extent. Here is a new smart home technololgy that is actually intended to track the movement of its dwellers. The technology is based on frequencies of noise in the power lines. In other words, a device measures the electrical noise emitted from appliances. Although not a perfect tracking system, the "usage" of your home can be monitored. The innovative aspect of the technology is that it could theoretically replace other forms of sensors (cameras and sensors) and thus use frequency data to initiate specific home scenes (or environments) or security responses.

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