Art Imitates Life
RFID helped a family get the most out of their house.
By Jonathan Collins
Aug. 1, 2006—Last fall, we quipped that Project: Life-which used RFID to track a British family 24/7 in their home to learn how lifestyle is influenced by house design-could be a TV reality show (September/October 2005). Apparently, TalkbackThames, the producers of the U.K.'s Channel 4 series Honey I Ruined the House, liked the idea.
In each episode, host Naomi Cleaver and a team of designers show homeowners how to fix their own decorating disasters. As part of that solution, they evaluate how the family uses their house.
In the first season, family members were asked to keep a log specifying which rooms they were in and for how long. But most weren't diligent about filling in the logs. So for the second season, the show turned to Wavetrend Technologies-the RFID company that designed and deployed the tracking system for Project: Life-to automate the process.
Aug. 1, 2006—Last fall, we quipped that Project: Life-which used RFID to track a British family 24/7 in their home to learn how lifestyle is influenced by house design-could be a TV reality show (September/October 2005). Apparently, TalkbackThames, the producers of the U.K.'s Channel 4 series Honey I Ruined the House, liked the idea.
In each episode, host Naomi Cleaver and a team of designers show homeowners how to fix their own decorating disasters. As part of that solution, they evaluate how the family uses their house.
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| Naomi Cleaver, host of the U.K.'s "Honey, I Ruined the House" |
In the first season, family members were asked to keep a log specifying which rooms they were in and for how long. But most weren't diligent about filling in the logs. So for the second season, the show turned to Wavetrend Technologies-the RFID company that designed and deployed the tracking system for Project: Life-to automate the process.
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