Home Automation
(related to Homes of the Future)
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Monitor a room remotely. [Added 6/20/01]
Control a room remotely. [Added 9/18/00]
Home automation and intelligent building resource (in Spanish). [Added 8/1/00]
Standard ok'd for power line networking
"Leading technology companies have taken another step toward the development of plug-and-play computer networks that would run over a home's electrical wiring." Industry leaders are actually having quite a bit of trouble agreeing on any standards. Will this one achieve better results? Unlikely with companies like Thalia going with new, proprietary networking and communication protocols for new appliances despite existing standards. [Added 6/7/00]
A virtual community that promotes the use of home automation in spain. Articles, prodcuts guides, newsgroups, usenet web interface to comp.home.automation, chat, homeseer wap service, and newsletter. In spanish. [Added 5/19/00]
"Your guide to the technological lifestyle." "...a kind of Consumer Reports with an eye to the future." — Newsbytes News Service, 12/27/99 [Added 3/20/00]
"Tomorrows technology today" is the motto of this portal for news related to high-tech products that could end up in the home. [Added 03/20/00]
Matsushita
Home of the Future
(related article: NYT Monday August 30, 1999)
A complete home of the future prototype built in Japan. Moving pictures of visitors are captured if nobody is home. Video on demand, electronic shopping, and calendar planning on a plasma screen. Networking in child's room for school video conferencing. Health-monioring toilet seat that measures weight, fat content, and urine to send results to doctor. Internet-controlled microwave. Refrigerator that caches each item.
[Added 03/14/00]
Smart Houses Gaining Acceptance
"Once the stuff of dreams, automated houses with computerized control systems are becoming common in upscale neighborhoods around the country."
[Added 03/14/00]
Sony, Intel Eye Home Networking Alliance (Reuters 02/17/00)
A possible alliance in next-generation home appliance networks
[Added 02/17/00]
A skeptical look at information appliances (A. Odlyzko)
"The future is said to belong to information appliances, specialized and easy to use devices that will have the car tell the coffee pot to brew a cup of coffee just in time for our arrival home. These gadgets are supposed to eliminate the complexity and resulting frustrations of the PC. The thesis of this essay is that while information appliances will proliferate, they will not lessen the perception of an exasperating electronic environment ..."
[Added 03/14/00]
Appliances
to be linked to the Internet (Washington Post 01/18/00)
Sunbeam Unveils 'Smart' Appliances
(Wall Street Journal 01/14/00)
Appliance makers are moving towards "wiring" their devices. Why? They aren't quite sure yet.
[Added 03/14/00]
Tutorial: home automation
Smarthome.com: A Home Automation Systems Company
Supplier of many home automation gadgets
Practical Home Automation Systems Technology (PHAST)
Home networking company
HomeNet Research Page
HomeNet is a Carnegie Mellon research project studying what people do with the Internet and how it affects their lives
The Home Automation Association
Trade Association of the home control industry.
Ericsson Home Communication
Provider of communications hardware
A community of highly automated houses
Continental Automated Buildings Association:
X10 equipment is probably the most popular among comsumers today. [added 8/1/00]
Supports the American National Standard for home automation, called CEBus.:
International Home Automation Standard
The international standard for home automation being developed by the ISO and IEC.
The Custom Electronic Design & Installation Association
This trade association focuses on technology for high-end homes.
A practical guide to home systems technology produced by the Consumer Electronics Manufacturers Association (CEMA), a sector of the Electronic Industries Alliance (EIA). CEMA runs the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. CEMA is responsible for writing American National Standards for home systems.
Smart house stuck in the '70s (Boston Globe 09/3/98)
Some systems
www.pc.ibm.com/us/homedirector/videotours.html
www.homeautomation.com/tabs.htm
www.homeauto.com
www.smart-america.com
www.ge-smart.com
www.homation.com
www.hsplus.com/phaegis/aegis.htm
www.leviton.com/sections/prodinfo/automate/automateindex.htm
www.smartlinc.com/
www.hausgeraet.de/english/produkteloesungen/hes/index_frame.html
www.coreo.com/
http://omnipotencesoftware.com
www.panja.com/integrator/phast/index.aspLeviton (X10 controlled switches)
ChannelPlus video distribution
Channelvision RF video distribution
Sentrol (if they have any useful sensors)
Linear technology (RF controlled sensors)
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