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- SoundOff: Low-cost Passive Ultrasound Tags for Non-invasive and Non-Intrusive Smart Home Sensing — Yibo Fu
SoundOff uses passive, battery-free 3D-printed metal tags that emit unique ultrasound chirps when moved, enabling private, zero-infrastructure smart home sensing.
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noticed our water bill this summer from irrigation system was...high. had claude analyze our @rachioco system and it found that enabling the automated "heat wave" setting had used 144,000 GALLONS IT ABSOLUTELY DID NOT NEED TO. ~$2,500 we could have just not spent at all. 😭
@Shpigford
Ubiquity is so ridiculously good. Just did a full apartment upgrade. Cloud router, three U7 Pros. Added a local admin account for an agent. Had Claude optimize all the radio channels, tune mesh settings, and ensure all devices roamed ideally. SCI-FI!
@dhh