Home Automation and AI

[potts.mike]

I have been really impressed by siri in ios 10. It knows that most Mondays we have dinner at the same place, that on Sundays Im going to want my fantasy football app etc... This got me thinking about applying intelligence like this to home automation. Is anyone experimenting with this? someone could probably leverage google or Microsoft's cloud to do this.

 

[BobS0327]

I've recently started on a residential environmental control system.  I'm using  temperature/humidity sensors installed throughout the interior and exterior of the home.  These sensors continually capture data and store it out on the cloud.  Right now, I'm using Thing Speak which is essentially a IAAS cloud service for data storage. 
 
The easy part is collecting all this massive data and storing it out in the cloud.  The exceptionally difficult part is developing the algorithms to properly analyze and act upon the data.  IOW, create a Artificial Neural Network to properly interpret the data and take the appropriate actions.
 
Here's a link to some info on implementing a neural network in a smart home environment.  http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1877705814002781
 
The platform that I am using is a RPI3.  All the "heavy lifting" is/will be done by implementing  cloud services.  The RPI3 will only collect data from the various sensors and send it to the cloud.  I will be using cloud SAAS to implement the algorithms and do the "number crunching".  The cloud will send the results back to the PI which in turn will take the appropriate action such as turning up the heat in a zone.  Thus, there will be no heavy processing done on the RPI3.