Home Automation, AI and everything else

http://www.user-groups.net/articles/intelligent_house.html "He's calling within the house!"- This thrilling warning resounds in the recent movie "When the stranger calls" that threatens most of our audiences. You surely still remember most scenes of the film take place within a very modern house that is nowadays called " intelligent house ". After 2-hour watching this thrilling film, I've just flashed some new ideas of an intelligent house for myself even though I don't know when I can carry out my dream as I'm not a millionaire. The model " intelligent house " appeared in the world long time ago. It has been developed as a computer-based house or we can understand that this kind of house is fulfilled with computerized gadgets such as audiovisual system, security sensors, automatic talking servant, etc. If I can build up my intelligent house someday, you can imagine it as my following description. When somebody presses my door be...

http://www.alliedlaser.com/smarthome.htm "Why are smart intelligent homes becoming so popular? Little did Disney’s 1950s audience know that the true houses of the future would look much the same as always, only with something extra: brains. Today’s designers and engineers are no less obsessed with the future than their 1950s counterparts were. However, now that the novelty of mass manufacture has worn off, their focus is on creating an intelligent home environment – houses that not only perform tasks for their occupants on request but also can anticipate their wants and needs. One example is of an old schoolhouse in Boulder, Colorado, owned by Michael Mozer, a computer science professor, is acknowledged by many in the technology community to be the world’s smartest home. Fitted with sensors and software that mimic the brain’s neural pathways, the house “learns” its occupants’ daily habits and preferences by observing their lifestyles, then programming itself to anticipate and acco...

Energy-Efficient Intelligent House That Can Learn Our Routines ScienceDaily (June 30, 2009) — The first home in the UK which can learn from its residents and take decisive action and text if it is being burgled or the door has been left unlocked, will be unveiled the week of July 3 in Cairo. InterHome, a model for a home developed by researchers at the University of Hertfordshire, incorporates modular custom design units and draws on standard home automation systems which have been adapted so that the house ‘learns’ and ‘adapts’ to its users’ lifestyles. The prototype of the home, which has been developed in a doll’s house, integrates embedded devices with the industry standard X10, so that it provides convenience and security to the home owner and also enables them to reduce energy so that they make savings of up to £300 a year and contribute to reducing greenhouse and carbon emissions. InterHome incorporates an intuitive touch screen user control panel that also allows the house to ...