VIDEO: Twittering home automation

Tweets reveals "heart-beat of the house"

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25 June 2009 16:31 GMT / By Amy-Mae Elliott

We've seen tweeting plants before, but now here's the BBC's Rory Cellan-Jones chatting to Isle of Wight resident and IBM engineer Andy Stanford-Clarke who has set up his entire 16th century thatched cottage to tweet him when various sensors are triggered. Hit play now for more, although be prepared to look away at certain points if you're a mouse-lover, as there's a few rodent-themed murder scenes.

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