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Cloud based sensory
Yes, another wacky idea from me :-).
I was thinking about weather stations and how silly it is to own one if my neighbour down the street already owns one, outputting the same data. This got me thinking. What if you could configure your GPS position (with fuzzy accuracy of 200 meters for privacy) of your homey and homey could read out and collect sensory information (for example from your NetAtmo weather station) which you choose to share. Once Homey knows the sensory information, nothing is keeping homey from sharing this with a central server. If other users can then subscribe to these sensory feeds in their neighbourhood or even city, they would have a lot more information to use in flows without having to purchase the expensive sensors.
It would be really nice if you could choose to share it publicly, or only amongst friends. (For example, I want to split the investment with my neighbour, but not share it with the whole world).
This feature would set homey apart with regards to added value. Also Homey could potentially monetise the (potentially) largest sensory network in the Netherlands/Europe/Globe! (when explicitly allowed by their users ;-))
I was thinking about weather stations and how silly it is to own one if my neighbour down the street already owns one, outputting the same data. This got me thinking. What if you could configure your GPS position (with fuzzy accuracy of 200 meters for privacy) of your homey and homey could read out and collect sensory information (for example from your NetAtmo weather station) which you choose to share. Once Homey knows the sensory information, nothing is keeping homey from sharing this with a central server. If other users can then subscribe to these sensory feeds in their neighbourhood or even city, they would have a lot more information to use in flows without having to purchase the expensive sensors.
It would be really nice if you could choose to share it publicly, or only amongst friends. (For example, I want to split the investment with my neighbour, but not share it with the whole world).
This feature would set homey apart with regards to added value. Also Homey could potentially monetise the (potentially) largest sensory network in the Netherlands/Europe/Globe! (when explicitly allowed by their users ;-))
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There are more possibilities than just temperature or wind speed. Think about twilight sensors for detecting when it gets dark outside for example. Or a sky quality meter, which tells you when it is a very clear sky at night and you should really be watching the stars. Or a particle meter which tells you there is a lot of pollution or a fire nearby, for which you might want to close your windows.... Just some ideas.
people with weather devices are able to either share or not share their sensor results with other users.
NetAtmo allready support this: https://www.netatmo.com/weathermap and it seems to me that data is allready available: https://dev.netatmo.com/doc/methods/getpublicdata