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 6 times. The fridge was opened 21 times and there was mail delivered 1 times. The house currently uses 2901 watt on power and we used 252 liters of water.

Last events in the house

Date Time Event
25-May-2019 09:07:36 Backdoor closed
25-May-2019 09:03:02 TV Livingroom switched on
25-May-2019 09:02:47 Alexs computer switched on
25-May-2019 09:01:46 Alexs computer switched off
25-May-2019 08:52:47 Fridge opened
25-May-2019 08:39:00 Toilet downstairs flushed (3 liters)
25-May-2019 08:25:21 Fridge opened
25-May-2019 07:41:06 Toilet upstairs flushed (3 liters)
25-May-2019 06:56:22 Fridge opened
25-May-2019 06:13:25 Fridge opened

Doorbell

The doorbell was the first item connected to the web. Now 2213 doorbell rings down the road you can still see all the info here!

Mailbox

Since 28-Aug-2000 there were 9613 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

Temperature, humidity, lightlevels etc. The things that make us decide wether or not to turn on the heater or lights. 

System monitoring

It’s all about bits and bytes here. Overal information about the system running the house. 

Live data feed

See the data from the Icepick.com scroll by as it is being logged. 

Babyroom

Our newest “project”. We hooked up sensor in the babyroom to monitor it’s sleeping patterns. 

Open data

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

Contact

How to get in touch?