Are you trying to remember to drink more water, bicycle more, take
shorter showers, or take your vitamins? Or are you constantly monitoring
your kids to see whether they're brushing, flossing, or putting the
toilet seat down?
Brian Krejcarek, founder of GreenGoose, thinks the solution may be peppering your home with a collection of small, inexpensive wireless sensors. The sensors are capable of detecting things like movement, sound, or temperature, and they report their findings to an egg-shaped base station that plugs into your wireless router so that it can send data to the Internet. Paste a sensor onto your daughter's trumpet case, and it can track how long she practices. Another on the dog's leash can let you know whether your spouse actually took Sparky out for his 6 a.m. constitutional.
"They're able to measure human behaviors when we interact with objects, whether it's getting on your bike or using your toothbrush," says Krejcarek. When I met him earlier this week, he was wearing a few prototype sensors around his neck, at the end of lanyards that looked like they might ordinarily carry employee badges.
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Author: Scott Kirsner
