In a future with hundreds or even thousands of devices in a home, devices should remain invisible until they’re needed, and share a common framework and interface.
Your most private and revealing data — the activities in and status of your home — should be private. Data should be yours, and not be used to track you, punish you, or discriminate against you.
IndiCam
IndiCam takes camera images of analog sensors (gauges, dials, odometers, etc.) and turns them into digital measurements.
The first version handles oil tank level gauges.
The service uses Machine Learning to extract the location of the gauge, and the location of the indicator.
Heartbeat
The Heartbeat service listens to the heartbeat signal of your Home Automation system, and notifies you when it can no longer be detected.
Whether your home automation has lost power, or, its network connection is down, it prevents potential disasters like losing the contents of your freezer while you are traveling. All without the security risk of opening up your network to external monitoring systems.
Home Assistant & Privacy
The future of Home Automation management is Open Source. Devices from many vendors will be managed by one vendor-independent system. And, your data will not be shared with anyone until you explicitly choose to.
Home Assistant is the most popular Open Source management system. It also is the only system that explicitly aims at keeping your data private. For these reasons, HausNet focuses on providing integration with Home Assistant. It makes its API available for integration with other systems.