Problem
It can be quite complex and time consuming for a human to analyze smart home sensors data. As well it can take your attention from other important things.And attention is quite a rare commodity these days...
Concept
SHOAMM will sense the home and adjust music accordingly to convey state of the home.
Each thing or sensor will have its digital twin as a musical instrument in the orchestra. Depending on its state it will conduct different type of music with a different volume and color.
Science
Calm technology or Calm design is a type of information technology where the interaction between the technology and its user is designed to occur in the user's periphery rather than constantly at the center of attention. Information from the technology smoothly shifts to the user's attention when needed but otherwise stays calmly in the user's periphery (Source: Wikipedia)Inspirations
Two years ago I've participated in the #HackTheHouse Hackathon for smart buildings, hosted at a local community center in Montreal - Notman House.
One of the projects was the Notman Tonal Presence. As it described by @reelyActive in his blog : "The ambient sounds allow the listener to subconsciously register foot traffic within the building while leaving their attention free for other tasks. Even the casual listener would have been gently alerted to the arrival of the Nearables, which is precisely the objective of calm technology. And, now, duly alerted, we can direct our attention towards filtering out the Nearables from GA so that their incessant identifier-cycling doesn’t saturate the session counts!"
Another source of inspiration is the Magenta project, where AI generates music.