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From Smart Phones to Smart Houses   From Smart Phones to Smart Houses
By Salar Golestanian @ 10 Mar 2011 :: Article Rating
 
Imagine if you could experience breathtaking home cinema DVD movies, listen to your whole music collection, watch your favourite TV programmes or just listen to the radio. All from speakers that are so discrete that your guests won't even know where they are?

Think of the convenience of easily controlling every light in your home, from every room. Not just switching on and off, but total control, so that your lights will slowly dim to create scenes to suit every mood.

Here is a “next-generation home” by a major Japanese housing manufacturer Sekisui House‘s so-called “Smart House” is definitely one of the coolest concepts I have seen. Apart from Sekisui, telecom giant NTT Docomo, NEC, and Namco Bandai Games have been involved in the creation of the prototype house that was recently showcased in Japan.

The idea is to combine different technologies in order to create an integrated concept that makes it possible to save energy, monitor the location of electric vehicles, store the “maintenance history” of the house, keep track of the health of the people around you, and so on. Everything can be managed with a smartphone – there are no switches in the house.

The Smart House allows people to monitor the well-being of older relatives: if he or she switches on the lights in the morning and then drives to the super market in a connected electric vehicle, you know where they are and that they’re OK (you can even get bio-signals collected by the house sent to you).



 I would love to see these technologies get less expensive to allow one to DIY in one's home. 
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