Here is a great opportunity to win a SHASPA Home Energy Kit for yourself - all you have to do is dream up a unique and interesting way in which you could use the device in Real Life! So get your thinking hats on...
The word "Shaspa" means SHAred SPAces. The spaces that are
intelligent and know what happens there. Technically it is a linux
box with software included, and connectivity options to interface
to home automation systems, Internet and home LAN. The Shaspa Home
Energy Kit is a nicely packaged Linux-based device
that includes an Opensim virtual world server. For an
end-user, the kit makes it possible to control your home
from a mobile phone, browser or - most excitingly - from a virtual
world.
Shaspa CEO, Oliver Goh, announced an idea contest; top 25 Ideas
how to use OpenShaspa device will win an ownership of such a
device. This is clever, the ones who are enthusiastic and have good
ideas, will get the device and start doing something with it.
I already started to think what could be achieved if you hook up
a rabbit with
Shaspa...
What does all this have to do with home energy consumption?
Well, with a Shaspa device you can control lights,
heating and blinds automatically and manually, from a remote
location. It also networks your home with other Shaspa houses and
helps to understand how the energy consumption is in line with
statistics - and can get alerted if something is taking too much
resources. Shaspa knows how to tweet at Twitter, too!
Nokia recently launched a new company, there,
to develop a similar home automation management device. They are
concentrating on the mobile phone as the remote control user
interface for the system, while Shaspa provides also the unique
ability to have a virtual world interface to your home.
For more info about the competition visit the new Shaspa
website: http://www.openshaspa.org
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