Smart Home Hacks covers a litany of stand-alone and integrated smart home solutions designed to enhance safety, comfort, and convenience in new and existing homes. Learn how to equip your home with motion detectors for added security, install computer-controlled lights for optimum convenience, and much more. No matter what your technical level may be, Smart Home Hacks will help you achieve the automated home of your dreams.
A smart home or building is a home or building, usually a new one that is equipped with special structured wiring to enable occupants to remotely control or program an array of automated home electronic devices by entering a single command. For example, a homeowner on vacation can use a Touchtone phone to arm a home security system, control temperature gauges, switch appliances on or off, control lighting, program a home theater or entertainment system, and perform many other tasks.
A technology known as Powerline Carrier Systems (PCS) is used to send coded signals along a home's existing electric wiring to programmable switches, or outlets. These signals convey commands that correspond to "addresses" or locations of specific devices, and that control how and when those devices operate. A PCS transmitter, for instance, can send a signal along a home's wiring, and a receiver plugged into any electric outlet in the home could receive that signal and operate the appliance to which it is attached
Xanboo provides an end-to-end technology solution that enables access and
control of any enabled device or appliance locally via a TV or PC, and remotely
over the Internet. Using our technology to connect from remote locations to a gateway
in the home, Xanboo enables users to control command and monitor devices from
anywhere in the world using a standard web interface.
Xanboo's technology enables local and/or remote access and control of virtually
any type of device over the Internet. Our software allows a user to control,
command, and monitor devices from anywhere in the world using a standard web
interface (PC, Cell Phone or PDA). In addition, the strength of Xanboo's technology
allows it to interface with third-party networking protocols such as Zigbee, Z-Wave,
X10 or IP cameras
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With Xanboo, you're never more then the internet away! Using our technology to
connect from remote locations to a gateway in the home, Xanboo makes possible
the control, command and monitoring of devices from anywhere in the world using a
standard web interface. This means you can view live video, monitor doors and windows,
control lights, check your home's temperature, and much more from a secure, private
website anytime using your web-enabled cell phone or PC. Easily add cameras, sensors
and lighting controls as your system needs grow.
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http://wiihacks.blogspot.com/2006/12/nintendo-wii-controlled-smarthome.html
this is a great overview of what can be done in a smart home.
http://www.smarthomesystems.com/services.htm
another good overview of services offered and process of implementation
http://www.smarthomesystems.com/process.htm
overview of process
http://www.smarthomesystems.com/company.htm
founder page, good info
Ever wanted to enhance your home with a sophisticated multi-room entertainment system? Or lighting that changes the mood and look of a room? Want to increase the safety of your home by installing a state-of-the-art security system? Or just relax in your bath watching your favorite movie with your very own built in plasma screen? Not only is all this now possible, it can be done at the touch of a button from your personally customized keypad, inside or outside your home.
- multi-room entertainment
- home cinema
- audio & visual components
- lighting systems
- climate control systems
- security systems
- telecoms/ Intercoms systems
- touch control panels
- remote access/monitoring
- wireless, cabling systems
- distributed internet access
- planning, consultation, installation, new technology and intelligent appliances
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