Introduction

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Welcome to our blog! Here's a little introduction as to who we are and what we do.

We are Traqua - a team of three secondary school students from Reading School (Berkshire, UK) working on an innovative water-saving solution for the home. We aim to use budget technology, including Raspberry Pis, to help households save water. As we develop our idea further (it is currently just a prototype system), we will provide more detail, via blog posts.

We hope you like our idea; all of our code is available open-source on GitHub. Please also see our demo site, which shows what our system would look like if it was installed in your home.

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