A Tinkerer’s Take on Home Automation: the Real-Life JARVIS
Meet JARVIS.
Not Tony Stark’s talking artificially intelligent operating system, Just A Rather Very Intelligent System. This is Jeremy’s Astute Residential Virtual Intelligent System.
They just happen to share the same initials.
Jeremy Blum, an electrical engineer/hacker/tinkerer, has spent the last couple years in Tony Stark-like fashion, building his very own home automation system. It was indeed inspired by JARVIS of “Iron Man” fame, only Blum’s physical interpretation is sort of a narrow, glowing white box instead of floating, invisible screen.
Oh, plus Blum’s is a girl.
“One day I’d like to have it at that level” of Tony Stark’s, he says with a smile in the video here, produced by the Wall Street Journal. “It’s nowhere near there yet, but I’m learning a lot along the way.”
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Blum’s JARVIS can, in her own words, “help with a variety of tasks, including setting alarms, controlling the lights, playing music and more.”
He can use his phone to activate the system, but he can also speak commands, or send it (her?) text messages.
Right now he’s trying to build a pulley system programmed into JARVIS to pull the window’s curtains open.
He hopes someday that he will create a system that turns lights on when he wakes up and turning a screen on when he walks into a room.
“Ultimately I just want a system where I don’t have to think about it anymore. It just works so seamlessly and its so integrated into my home that I don’t have to see it, I don’t have to think about it, it just knows what I want and does what I want it to. And it’s unobtrusive but it’s useful and functional.”
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