About

Icepick.com started in 1998 as a little home automation project gaining lots of media attention in the early years. After almost 20 years the site is still alive and kicking! 

Blog

Ready all about some of the nerdie projects I am working on and a little bit more background information about Icepick.com’s technologies used. 

August 11th - Hue & Raspberry PI

The vitals

In the last 24 hours the toilet was flushed 19 times. The fridge was opened 10 times and there was mail delivered 0 times. The house currently uses 328 watt on power and we used 239 liters of water.

Last events in the house

Date Time Event
22-Aug-2017 03:21:39 Toilet upstairs flushed (3 liters)
22-Aug-2017 02:18:36 Toilet upstairs flushed (3 liters)
21-Aug-2017 23:14:34 Toilet upstairs flushed (3 liters)
21-Aug-2017 23:12:19 Toilet upstairs flushed (3 liters)
21-Aug-2017 21:37:05 Toilet upstairs flushed (3 liters)
21-Aug-2017 21:33:06 Toilet upstairs flushed (3 liters)
21-Aug-2017 21:33:04 TV Livingroom switched off
21-Aug-2017 21:23:03 Toilet downstairs flushed (3 liters)
21-Aug-2017 20:45:15 Fridge opened
21-Aug-2017 20:45:02 Fridge opened

Doorbell

The doorbell was the first item connected to the web. Now 1960 doorbell rings down the road you can still see all the info here!

Mailbox

Since 28-Aug-2000 there were 8987 pieces of mail delivered. Lot's of other mailman statistics on this page.

Fridge

Are there any midnight cravings? When do we do our cooking? It can all be seen here.

Toilet

This is the most visited pages on the website.. and yet.. it just tells you what you probably already knew.. we flush our toilet!

Multimedia

These days everything is internet connected. Here you can see when the Playstation 4 or TV or Radio was last used. Also the last music we played on Spotify is visible. 

Heat, water & power

We keep detailed records of our water, power and heat consumption. Not only data but money is also flowing all the time. 

Environmental sensors

Using a whole array of sensors in the house we keep track of temperature, humidity, motion and lightlevels. 

Open data

You can download some of our datasets and do your own analyses on it.

Contact

How to get in touch?