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    MAKE YOUR HOME A SMART HOME PART 2

    Aug 07, 2020 5 minutes
    By Enrico Miglino
    Photographs: Enrico Miglino

    The introductory article to this Smart Home series, which appeared in Issue No. 91 of The Shed, explained that the projects are electronic improvements for our sheddie homes.

    Behind all these projects there is a common thread that connects them all to fully control your home and make it smart. There are also common characteristics in every design: the ability to collect data and provide local feedback automatically as well as to control the home automation remotely.

    Trying to imagine all the possible scenarios when designing home automation is pretty challenging. For this reason, I decided to divide the big problems into smaller ones. To do this I borrowed the concept of ‘task area’ from the early 1980s studies on the applied ergonomy for industrial workers. I divided an ideal home into several ‘operational (task) areas’, identified by specific zones, such as the kitchen,

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