Domotics: an open approach. Remotely controlled home automation systems: What's the IQ of your house? - Page 2. Neenu Abraham, ET Bureau Nov 13, 2011, 01.43am IST The upfront cost of installing a home automation system is undoubtedly high, but chances are that it pays for itself over time given the energy savings in a wired house. Says Bijay Agarwal, managing director, Salarpuria Sattva Group: "In a fully automated house, there is likely to be a saving of up to 20-25% of energy in the long run. " The group is in talks with service providers to create a customisable home automation system for their upcoming projects in Bangalore — Luxuria and Magnificia. But, as Raheja puts it, "Companies like Schneider and Honeywell claim huge savings in the long term but I don't think that is the only reason why buyers are interested in paying more upfront. It is more of a snob value, at the moment, to be able to control your house with your iPhone. " Not Just For Richie Rich Club The home automation industry in India is now tapping new markets down the pyramid.
Stumbling Blocks Hacking Risk. How tech is changing our house. Mashable. Whole-House Automation Product Companies | Home Automation Info. Analysis: U.S. industrials, telecoms to face off in home automation. Statistics to Make You Think | EC Mag. For low-voltage contractors eager to seize more market share in the residential sector, home automation may be where ground can be gained. A BCC Research study revealed that the U.S. market for home automation systems and devices is expected to see strong growth over the next several years. The market is forecast to exceed $5.5 billion in 2016, the result of a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 10.5 percent between 2011 and 2016. In 2010, security systems, home entertainment and lighting made up nearly 58 percent of the country’s residential market, and those sectors are estimated to enjoy a higher CAGR than heating, ventilating and air conditioning and energy management, reaching $3.8 billion by 2016. Frost & Sullivan has also conducted research in the sector, and the research body’s studies point to end-users who are more aware and educated when it comes to home automation systems and who have a better understanding of the benefits they can reap from adopting those systems.
Hevra.haifa.ac.il/~soc/lecturers/n.bird/files/511315305364.pdf. The Smart Home.pdf. Smart Home Concept | Interaction Design for Home Innovation 2012. Home of 2015: Small, Green, and Casual. The National Association of Home Builders (NAHB) recently published the results of new research into what Americans are looking for in their next home. The electronic survey — The New Home in 2015 — went to 3,019 builders, designers, architects, and marketing specialists, and 238 of the total pool responded. From the responses, the NAHB determined that new homes will be smaller, greener, and more casual. Smaller Home of the Future Specifically, the new home of 2015 will be about 10% smaller than average at about 2,152 square feet.
Greener Home of the Future The average new home is very likely to have low-e windows, dual-flush toilets, low-flow faucets, engineered wood components, and Energy Star certification. More Casual Home of the Future The average new home is very likely to have a great room that combines the kitchen, living room, and family room. What About Existing Homes? The new home is competition for the existing. Do you agree or disagree? [+] View The New Home of 2015 Study. Redesigning Google: how Larry Page engineered a beautiful revolution. By Dieter Bohn and Ellis Hamburger Something strange and remarkable started happening at Google immediately after Larry Page took full control as CEO in 2011: it started designing good-looking apps. Great design is not something anybody has traditionally expected from Google. Infamously, the company used to focus on A/B testing tiny, incremental changes like 41 different shades of blue for links instead of trusting its designers to create and execute on an overall vision.
The “design philosophy that lives or dies strictly by the sword of data” led its very first visual designer, Douglas Bowman, to leave in 2009. More recently, however, it’s been impossible to ignore a series of thoughtfully designed apps — especially on iOS, a platform that doesn’t belong to Google. Google+, YouTube, Gmail, and Maps are consistent and beautiful — in stark contrast both to Google’s previous efforts and even Apple’s own increasingly staid offerings.
They’re talking to each other. Sticky TOC engaged! Living smart : Home. Swati Mathur July 17, 2008 | UPDATED 13:42 IST Your son wants to eat his favourite homemade pudding and your refrigerator is out of milk. It’s his birthday and you cannot disappoint him. But the fact is you’re at work and nowhere close to a grocery store. You fret first, but then you remember you’ve been smart. So you switch on your laptop or the computer at your desk, and use your login name and password to access your home. You press the required code to send out an instruction to your refrigerator. Here’s scenario 2: You’ve left home in a hurry and there’s no time to go back to check on the gas cylinder or the window you may have left open. As the owner of a smart home, you can close windows, turn off the gas supply, switch off lights and fans and even programme your puja room to be lit up at 6 pm every day.
This is the power of the smart home. The central unit can be pre-programmed to follow a routine, or you can issue instructions daily. Welcome TO P-DEVICE.COM [LTE Based Cloud Platform Startup] Future Trends in Home Automation - OpenRemote. One of the things we talk about and have written about before is the reluctance of home automation industry to adopt off-the-shelf hardware as part of their offering. Some argue that dedicated hardware, dedicated home automation controllers, dedicated home automation touch panels, and in some cases, dedicated home automation network cables are necessary to create a stable, high-quality installation. While on the surface this argument holds true, it does ring a bit hollow. It rings hollow because we tend to be very good at defending a point of view where our income depends on it. The truth is that these dedicated home automation instruments are extremely expensive to the end-user and the business model of many a home automation company depends on the fat hardware margins.
So it makes one wonder if the established automation vendors have a true interest to see alternatives from mass-volume consumer electronics industry to work in the field of home automation? Enter Apple and Google. Www.asia.security.honeywell.com/Documents/Honeywell System (Red Hill Peninsula).pdf. A tour of the HP Smart Home at the Cupertino Campus. Trends In Affordable Home Automation Systems, by Steven Castle. HAI by Leviton president Jay McLellan whips out his smart-phone, summons his company’s Snap-Link mobile app, and starts controlling his own home thousands of miles away.
Impressive to some, but to others it’s no biggie. Home control companies have been doing this for some time now. The problem, McLellan says, pointing to big service providers like ADT and Comcast that are selling similar “connected” and “smart” home services, is that “everyone wants to make home automation a $50 charge—on top of security. We want to make home automation available without a monthly charge,” he says.
A basic HAI system can cost $4,000 to $5,000 professionally installed, although McLellan expects that HAI’s new marriage to lighting and control company Leviton will bring the price of his company’s automation systems down to the $1,000-to-$3,000 range. A new $576 HAI by Leviton LTe controller may help do that. And that’s a good thing, because the days of affordable home automation are already here. Www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/projects/futcom/fc_litfinal1.pdf. 10 Hot Home Automation Trends, by Lisa Montgomery. November 11, 2010 | by Lisa Montgomery 6. Streaming Media The ability to tap into Internet-based content from providers like Pandora, Netflix and Sirius Radio has been hot for some time, but instead of downloading the data into a dedicated media server or iPhone the way you might do it now, soon you might pull it directly into your home automation system or store it in a cloud-based “digital locker.”
“We envision that you’ll no longer need a hard drive to access content,” says Michael de Nigris, co-founder and CEO of Autonomic Controls, a company that’s developed technology that facilitates global access to content and streaming services. “Instead, you might buy an album, have it reside in a cloud on the Internet, an access from anywhere and from any device.” He believes it’ll take another two or three years for sans-server setups to become a reality. Some companies are taking a slightly different approach. 7. Apps are just one way of doing this. 8. 9. 10. Page 2 of 2 Previous < 1 2. Accessible Housing by Design — Home Automation. Universal Design People who inhabit and visit the houses and homes we live in come in all shapes and sizes.
They range in age from infancy to old age with a variety of ever-changing abilities and skills. Housing needs change for all of us as we grow-up, grow old and welcome new people to our homes. A home that is designed and built to reflect the principles of universal design is safer and more accommodating to everyone who inhabits or visits it, no matter what their age or physical ability. The philosophy of universal design is that your home should be comfortable, pleasant, safe and usable by everyone in your family, be it your children, you or your spouse, aging parents or a relative with a disability.
Using Technology in the Home Devices originally designed for people with disabilities are found in every home. What is Home Automation? Home automation systems can be operated by electricity or a computer chip using a range of different types of switches. What Can Home Automation Do? Doors. Clever Home Automation - Future Trends in Home Automation. Research projects. Honeywell Tuxedo Touch Adds Home Automation to Security Systems. Honeywell is making it simple to add home automation and Web services to traditional security panels, thanks to the new Tuxedo Touch (6280i) Wi-Fi touchscreen. The seven-inch wall-mounted unit integrates Honeywell security panels with Z-Wave home automation devices, surveillance cameras and Web services.
For Honeywell, “it’s always been about life safety,” says Rob Puric, director, product management and marketing. “But convergence is becoming just as important.” The touchscreen is not a self-contained security system, a la Honeywell’s Lynx 5100, but it does add automation and other services to full-featured Honeywell Vista security panels. The novelty of the product is that it installs just like a standard four-wire keypad, but brings everything necessary to integrate Honeywell security with home control and the Web. Tuxedo has built-in Z-Wave technology for controlling door locks, thermostats, lights and other Honeywell-approved Z-Wave devices. Honeywell’s Home Automation Touchscreen: Security Optional - CE Pro Spotlight Article from CE Pro. Honeywell isn't just for security anymore. At the Electronic House Expo last week, the company unveiled a home automation system -- security optional. The heart of the new system is the 6280 graphical touchpanel, featuring a 7-inch screen and an array of communications modules inside.
Out of the gate, the touchscreen is meant as a rich user interface for Honeywell's existing Vista alarm panels, connecting via a single wire like any other Vista keypad. The unit has an Ethernet port and a built-in Web server for monitoring and managing the security system remotely ... no monthly fees required (beyond the traditional central station monitoring). Via the IP connection, users can receive local news, weather and sports. Plus, the installer can push notifications to the panel. If the user does not desire professional monitoring, the 6280 does include RF technology compatible with Honeywell's existing wireless sensors (5800 series), so the system can be used simply for self-monitored security.
Total Connect from Honeywell. Www-vs.informatik.uni-ulm.de/de/intra/bib/2008/IE/Final papers/IE08_0068_final.pdf. Depts.washington.edu/dmgftp/publications/pdfs/smarthouse98-mdg.pdf. Home automation. Domestic patch panel, unstructured. Home automation is the residential extension of building automation. It is automation of the home, housework or household activity. Home automation may include centralized control of lighting, HVAC (heating, ventilation and air conditioning), appliances, security locks of gates and doors and other systems, to provide improved convenience, comfort, energy efficiency and security. Home automation for the elderly and disabled can provide increased quality of life for persons who might otherwise require caregivers or institutional care. The popularity of home automation has been increasing greatly in recent years due to much higher affordability and simplicity through smartphone and tablet connectivity.
A home automation system integrates electrical devices in a house with each other. Automated "homes of the future" have been staple exhibits for World's Fairs and popular backgrounds in science fiction. Overview and benefits[edit] History[edit] Networks[edit]