| When the term smart home hits your ears, what do | | | | and smart home technology is a great idea. Even |
| you immediately think? If you are like most people, you | | | | though it can be expensive and difficult to initially set up, |
| think it is some sort of home that can think for itself. A | | | | it will provide a homeowner with a level of confidence |
| home like the one Bill Gates has, with rooms that can | | | | that simple door locks or a home alarm may not be |
| read body temperatures and stress patterns to | | | | able to provide. |
| automatically change the pictures and lighting to fit an | | | | A person, with one of the computer-based programs, |
| individuals mood. Or maybe it is like the one in "Iron | | | | can easily have control over all of the home's timers |
| Man," which can not only order food and change room | | | | and commands. They can easily reset the sprinklers |
| temperatures, but also can verbally communicate with | | | | for their lawn or set the timers for the outside lights. If |
| Tony Stark and Pepper Potts. | | | | the individual utilizes a few home alarm systems, such |
| No, the term smart home applies to any home that | | | | as a pool alarm, deck alarm and garage alarm, it is |
| has some sort of automated feature to it. Whether | | | | possible to link all of them through one program, |
| that feature is as simple as automatic kitchen timers or | | | | allowing the individual to easily enable and disable them |
| more focused on home security, such as motion | | | | with ease. |
| sensor outdoor lights, smart homes are becoming | | | | And with all of the advanced technology currently |
| more and more prevalent in modern society. Even the | | | | developing and being released on the market, there is |
| device that cleans the pool fits into the definition, since | | | | no telling what will come next within the realms of |
| it is completely automated. In fact, a home alarm | | | | smart home technology. In a few years, people may |
| system that is connected to a phone line or the | | | | have houses that have all their systems and |
| Internet so that it can communicate with the authorities, | | | | appliances linked together. It could even get to a point |
| if need be, is another example of a smart home. | | | | like in the cartoon "The Jetsons," where all George had |
| Many new homes are actually being built today with | | | | to do was put trust in his home, which would wake him |
| the wires necessary to enable smart home | | | | up, shower and shave him and serve him coffee |
| technology. All that the consumer needs to do is | | | | before sending him off to work. |
| update their home or invest in a computer-based | | | | Because seriously, society already invented the |
| program that can control all of the home automation | | | | Clapper - that device that turned on lights with a simple |
| commands, such as ActiveHome or HAL. With these | | | | double clap - back in the 1980s. That was 25 years |
| programs, an individual can easily link up all of their | | | | ago and fits into the definition of a smart home. Just |
| technology with one easy to use system. | | | | imagine what the next big invention will be, making |
| Yet, with regards to home security, home automation | | | | everyone's life that much easier. |