We’re renovating our flat, new bathroom, new kitchen, new floor, refinished walls, updated wiring, laying cat6e, etc. I’ve got all kinds of possibilities here.
The bathroom presence issue is one thing that jumped out at me first. Do you think I could install a load sensor or two underneath the new tile floor in the shower, and run the sensor wires about 3 or 4 meters to the bathroom cabinet? Would signal attenuation be a problem? What’s the chance the load cell fails? I have sensors rated for 50kg… but maybe I should get others.
Similarly we are laying a new parquet wood floor. Could load cells be useful here? Are there are other sensors that would be more reliable?
I’m also placing a few power sockets in what would normally be strange places so I can attach permanent ESP32s or RPIs.
What other opportunities do I have that I’m not thinking of?
I use Zigbee and ESP devices.
(FYI this is in the EU where walls/ceilings are made of brick and concrete, so the opportunity to run new wiring doesn’t come up very often)
