"whisky-dave" wrote in message
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On Wednesday, 13 September 2017 20:58:27 UTC+1, Rod Speed wrote:
"whisky-dave" wrote in message


You'd need the fire brigade turn up in a uniform to tell yuo that
yuo have a fire in your home ?

Nope, but if it happens that an obscure part of the place
is on fire and I havent noticed, that could be handy.

I guess it would but how would the fire brigade know ?

Someone else reported it to them.

So someone else notices a fire in an obsure part of your
house, but doesn't tell you and rings the fire brigade.

Makes sense to get the fire brigade there as soon as possible
and they may not be able to get you to come to the door
because you dont hear them knocking on the front door etc.

Well yes you couldm have been in the obsucre part of the house where the
fire is and passed out.



The fireys can be a lot more aggressive about getting into
the house if they dont get a response when they knock.

Well I hope they don;t wait for a someone to open the door in these cases,
I don;t think I'd want the 'fireys' to wait 10mins for someone to come to
the door.



Face recignition would be fun though as you could have
particular greeting or if unrecogniswd just say "**** off".

Or have the system be selective about who it tells me about
like when I am having a snooze and dont want to be told
about the joveys, but do about the cops etc if they show up.

well the iphone X could do that accroding to the tech specs
I glanced over it says it has body & face detection.

IMO it would be better done with the surveillance cameras
and that could go much further and recognise when a courier
van has showed up too, even using the branding on the van etc.

Have yuo seen te4h price of these cams

Yep.

they are about twice that of a iphone X

Plenty have them anyway.

Plenty that can afford to have such a system.


and that excluded the servers.

They dont all need servers. And its a small
part of the total cost of the house anyway.

Thyey do need a central place to store images and delete them if not
needed, handy to have them automatically upload to the cloud too.



And could notify my mobile with the courier or posty so I could
tell them over the phone where to leave the item if I want to do that.

I;d find it more convinet to have a system like a post box outside that
could be locked or unlocked from my smartphone anywhere in the world.

Trouble is some stuff is too big to go in one of those.

Obviously but the postie obviouly has to leave it somewhere.

The last lot of grog I bought online was much too big
to put in what is sensible to have locked box wise.

So where did it go ?

I answered the door when they knocked, and helped
them to move it from the van into my house.

Tad radical, I realise.

The postman can then leave the parcel
their no need for me to come to the door

Doesnt work for stuff you have to sign for.

An app coul,d get around that quite easily the postie
could film himself putting the item in the requested place.

Useless when it needs your signature.

Once you have the surveillance cameras and alarm
system, easy enough to have it do the other fancy
stuff too and wouldnt cost any more hardware wise.

Leaves stupid dinosaur primitive bells and door knockers for dead.

But it could cost thousands.

Many have that anyway with their surveillance equipment.
Might as well use that to replace dinosaur bells and knockers
and get a vastly better overall result.

at a much higher cost

Not if you have the surveillance system already.

but if iot was really that easy the security forces and police
would be using survalance cameras with face recignition

They do.

but it;s expensive on a large scale.

We aint talking about a large scale, we are discussing
what those with even half a clue choose to have at their
place instead of farting around with door bells etc.