The TRV certainly isn't a great place for an occupancy detector; but ultrasound Doppler-shift / vibration detectors might just about work on a TRV. (although, of course, these would need to be an optional extra as they would significantly increase the cost... and vibration detectors might get confused by vibrations transmitted through the copper pipework: maybe it'd make more sense to detect human voices)<br>
<br><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 28 March 2013 09:41, Stuart Poulton <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:stuart@poulton.org.uk" target="_blank">stuart@poulton.org.uk</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
I don't think occupancy detection would work on the TRV, given the location of most TRV's<br>
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Occupancy detection isn't the easiest thing to accomplish it has long been the holy grail of home automation.<br>
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On 28 Mar 2013, at 09:37, Jack Kelly wrote:<br>
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> On the topic of IR / ultrasound:<br>
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> Any sort of occupancy detection built into the TRV would be very interesting for a future design iteration, IMHO. IR / ultrasound / CO2 (*very* expensive!) / vibration detector (microphone with low pass filter) etc.<br>
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> In general, my hunch is that only the very geekiest folks will ever bother to explicitly program an efficient room-by-room heating schedule so anything we can do to automate the generation of a room-by-room schedule could significantly widen the appeal of the system (conditional on the system not frightening users: there's a real risk that people will worry that they're being spied on).<br>
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> (BTW, one of my MSc students will almost certainly be doing her summer project on room-by-room occupancy prediction based on PIR and individual appliance power data: not as easy as it might first appear!).<br>
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