Miataru - be found
▻http://miataru.com
Miataru or 見当たる is Japanese and means “be found” or “to come across” and it’s meant to be a set of tools to allow the user to track locations and choose how to work with the data as well as how data is stored if at all.
When Google closed it’s Latitude service it suddenly became apparent how many processes in an home automation system and daily life already make use of the ability to locate devices.
Some examples:
– Being able to tell where family members are right now helps a lot when organizing your day and work – it minimizes communication overhead a lot. How many times did you call people “where are you now?”
– It’s a blessing in home automation to have that meta data to control systems. Think of your house knowing you are approaching and therefore increases the heating on it’s own so it’s warm when you arrive or it lowers the heating while you are away?
– Proximity Alerts help to avoid surprises (for all those who don’t like them)
– Knowing the metrics of your day, week, month, year makes a lot of sense when you think about lowering transportation costs and personal energy consumption
– You’re a photographer and you want to geo-tag your pictures after the shooting or you found a nice spot and you want to find it again in the future?