I had the idea of using an iphone as the remote device istead of a different device all together, but i soon relised that the remote device needs to stay in the house in order for the house to save energy, so a portable phone would not be suitable.
The good thing about using a remote is that it is something that is always in plain sight of the users. It is always in the centre location of the house which is the lounge. It is constantly interacted with by the users. This is great as the remote will have reminders and alerts on it of energy saving so the device needs to be seen and heard often.
Remote device will need to have basic universal remote capabilties eg running the tv and dvd player etc in order for it to be a daily used device.
The sensors that i plan to use to work out when someone is in the room or not will need to have a night setting where it still knows to turn everything off when the user is sleeping. Perhaps heat sensors - need to look at costs, power cosumtion and whether or not it would get confused with a computer and a person. Maybe time settings via the remote can be set.
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