Data discoveries · 3 posts
What the House Knows
Cheap sensors and the habit of keeping the data turn a suburban house into something you can interrogate.
- Part 1 · 8 min read
Two Identical Bedrooms. One Won't Stay Warm.
Two bedrooms built the same way, one needing 48 per cent more heating. A fortnight of probe data rules out the heater, the wind and the sun, and points at the ceiling.
- Part 2 · 10 min read
The Night the Battery Ran Dry
On the coldest night of winter the house battery hit its floor and cost 29 cents. The daily mean lied about the cold, and the battery never really ran dry.
- Part 3 · 7 min read
Hot Water Is the Load I Can't Move
A heat-pump hot water tank takes hours to recover from a morning's showers, and a household of five can't say when the showers will come, so the tank has to stay hot all day.