Physical interaction design DH2400

Twine is a system of small, cheap, sensors that you can distribute around your house to connect anything to the internet. Each device has a temperature, accelerometer, orientation, and vibration sensor with a port for add ons such as magnetic and moisture sensors. Each twine broadcasts its data over wifi so one can easily monitor their house when they aren't home to know when doors have been opened, if a water-heater has flooded, the dog has gone outside, etc. Besides monitoring, users can setup event based rules to say get a text when the basement floods. While in its current state, it only lets you monitor a couple interesting house statistics, perhaps in the future it could be extended to allow the user to turn on the heat before they get home, let the dog out, etc.

Source: Super Mechanical