Party Squasher: guest occupancy counter for homes
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Party Squasher: guest occupancy counter for homes
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Re: Party Squasher: guest occupancy counter for homes
#2I could definitely see the use from a landlord's perspective but of course would hate this as a tenant.
My last landlord wanted me to sign a lot of arbitrary (and mostly unenforceable) rules. One was "no guests without permission". I read it over and asked him, "so if I have someone sleep over, you want me to call you on your cell?" He scratched out the rule.
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#3This seems fine for short-term rentals, which is the target audience.
I don’t think that I would personally mind it if this were installed at an airbnb that I was staying at.
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#4Interesting approach. I have a feeling that this is intended for sparsely built houses (the typical american housing maybe?) since in a dense European city I’d imagine it would pick up tons of cell phone signals from other people in their own homes or, say, from people visiting the downstairs coffee shop terrace.
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#5Thought this was going to be an mmWave sensor with an "AirBnB host friendly" UI of some sort.. turns out it's just a network sniffer? Seems.. defeatable.
> How it Works
>
> Party Squasher uses the presence of mobile phones
> as a proxy for the presence of people. You start by
> connecting our small sensor to your property’s internet
> router. [...]Re: Party Squasher: guest occupancy counter for homes
#6This is pretty clever but could also lead to the greatest parties in recent history.
Very soon the norm will be to keep your phone off at any airbnb party.
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#7Relatively sensible and privacy-preserving compared to what I first imagined - cameras and AI AI AI
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#9Interesting approach. I have a feeling that this is intended for sparsely built houses (the typical american housing maybe?) since in a dense European city I’d imagine it would pick up tons of cell phone signals from other people in their own homes or, say, from people visiting the downstairs coffee shop terrace.
The 'fix' for that (applicable in some areas, not so much in others) would be to remember phone ID's and focus on numbers (and strength) of new ID's during the rental period.
A downstairs coffee shop would be a semi periodic flux of a particular size, a party would be a surge over and above that flux and persisting outside of coffee shop hours.
Again, pattern learning is only applicable in some scenarios .. but effective enough in those.
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#10Genius