[HH] 1) home automation 2) concrete drilling & radar/x-ray question

[Stephen Ronan]

1) Tangential, but perhaps of interest
Voice Activated Home Automation with Siri and ioBridge
http://www.iobridge.net/projects/2011/11/voice-activated-home-automation-with-siri-and-iobridge/


2) I was asked for advice on bringing wifi to a public housing 
development in the Boston area. I'm inclined to recommend the 
Linux/openwrt-based ROBIN/open-mesh <open-mesh.com>. It looks as 
if a central run of conduit, with Ethernet to each floor to 
support a gateway, from top to bottom of the 8-story building 
would be very useful. Someone recommended that the concrete 
floors should be reviewed via x-ray 
http://www.kvinspection.com/Services/ConcreteSlabXRay/tabid/160/Default.aspx 
or ground penetrating radar (GPR). 
http://www.gp-radar.com/concrete.html
prior to any drilling.

I called a company that does GPR that said it'd cost about 
$2,000. Anyone here happen to have relevant experience/advice... 
able to suggest contractors well-positioned to do either the 
drilling and/or radar/x-ray?

   - Thanks,
   Stephen Ronan