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How Smart Homes Work

This article from How stuff work gives a comprehensive explanation of how a swart house works. According to the article any thing that uses electricity can be put on home network. This network connected to the central computer which gives you ability to control all the appliances in the house. Its talks about a smart home technology called X10 and how it uses power lines to communicate between devices. It also mentions newer communication protocols like zigbee networks.

It also goes on to explaining how a smart house is setup and what are the basic smart home products. smart houses can for example do these function.

  • Light a path for nighttime bathroom trips
  • Instantly create mood lighting for time with that special someone
  • Program your television so that your children can watch only at certain times
  • Access all your favorite DVDs from any television in the home
  • Have your thermostat start warming the bedroom before you get out of bed so that it's nice and toasty when you get up
  • Turn on the coffee maker from bed

Finally it give some challenges in this field like security concerns from hackers and software bugs, the prices of the technology etc.

Read the full article here:http://tlc.howstuffworks.com/home/smart-home.htm

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