You might wonder why I do this, which is normal. Let’s call it a hobby. Using these new technologies we know what’s going on in our house. How many power, water and gas do we use. Knowing your weight and seeing a trend allows you to adjust the way you live. Realizing that you use 80 Liters of perfectly good drinking water to take a shower makes you change the way you shower. Guess what, now I use <30 liters.
It’s all about

AWARENESS

…”knowing what you do allows you to change”…

…”You know what you do but you don’t.
Seeing it makes you realize this and allows you to change patterns & behaviour”…

Results

• Lower body weight
• Lower water usage
• Lower power consumption
• Not enough time to spend on this hobby ;-)

What can I Control

• Lamps
• Power status devices
• Camera’s
• TV,decoder,media-player (IR)
• Thermostat
• Devices (power)

What can I Monitor

• Temperature in every room and outside
• Humidity in most rooms and outside
• Water usage
• Power usage (total)
• Gas usage
• Door and window status (security)
• Presence (who is home)
• Car Presence is the car at home?
• Car Tracking where is the car?
• Power usage (total and for most devices)
• Diskspace
  
• Smokesensor
• Weight
• Statistics (doors open, toilet visits, hours of TV usage, etc)
• Traffic information xxxxxxx
• Rain fall & status
• Camera monitoring the house

How to control or monitor?

• Using a web-browser
• Using a phone (browser)
• Using an iPhone/iPod/iPad (web interface)
• Using an iPhone/iPod/iPad application (HomeSeer Touch)
• Using an IVR (voice response)
• Using an IP phone (XML service)
• Using a Windows (CE) touch-screen
• Using the media player through the TV
• Using a remote-control
• Using a switch ;-)
• Using Twitter
• Based on Events (time, motion, presence, etc)

There’s more that I cannot think of right now. This will be updated at a later stage.