The phrase "Internet of Things" got to be an overused misnomer
even before the technology had a chance to become common, but at
least we're on to everyday use cases: a developer has arranged
for his thermostat to turn on when he's home and switch off when
he leaves.  Hans Scharler's thermostat keeps dibs on his
location, the outside temperature and the temperature inside the
house, and decides when to kick on the air conditioning or heat.
Scharler is a developer at ioBridge, which makes software and
hardware to remotely control or monitor everything from fish
tanks to toaster. His thermostat is connected to a controller
that adjusts the settings based on location data from Google
Latitude and temperature data from Google Weather, WeatherBug,
inside the house.  We've written about ioBridge (see Top 10
Internet of Things Products of 2009) and ioBridge implementation
before (see Automate Your Home Using ioBridge and Twitter).
Scharler wrote the project in Perl, which he said is "perfect
for parsing lots of dat