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Home Automation is the way of the future but is here for us to enjoy today. This involves the application of automation techniques for security, multi-media, home entertainment, video, audio, lighting, climate control, control of doors and window shutters, security and surveillance systems, just to name a few. If you want your pets and plants automatically fed and watered this can happen too. George and Jane Jetson would be quite at home in our long list of home automation systems. Much of this technology can be retrofitted to our existing homes or can be part of the home plans for a new construction.  Everyone can benefit from the upgrades.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Multi-Media - Video, Audio and More:  This includes video switching and distribution, allowing a video source to be viewed on multiple TVs. This feature is often referred to as 'multi-zone' video. Integration of the intercom to the telephone, or of the video door entry system to the television set.

Security:  Control and integration of security systems. This also includes control and distribution of security cameras, detection of possible intrusion, sensors of detection of movement
sensors of magnetic contact of doors and windows and sensors for breakage of glass. Security systems also provide detection of fires, gas and water. Home security can also mean medical alerts, home security over lines,  teleassistance, and precise and safe closing of blinds.

Robotics:  Using robots to clean our homes, water our lawns and cut our grass. At CES, Welcome Home actually interviewed a robot who claimed he could babysit our children (not sure if we're ready for that one). Much of this can be controlled by direct intervention, scheduled ahaead of time or activated through the internet.

 

 

 

Computers:
The history of the computer revolution is misunderstood by most people. Conventional histories begin with the creation of Charles Babbage's analytical engine in the midnineteenth century and proceed through a long series of other giant mechanical calculating machines, climaxing with ENIAC at the University of Pennsylvania in the years after World War II. This is like beginning a history of space flight with a chronicle of triumphs in the production of wheelbarrows and horse-drawn carriages.
 
The revolution in information technology sprang not from any extension of Babbage's insights in computer science, but from the quantum revolution in physical science. Fundamental breakthroughs in solid-state physics led to the 1972 invention of the microchip. The microchip is a computer etched on a tiny sliver of silicon the size of a fingernail, containing scores of functioning logical devices in a space comparable not to the head of a pin, but to the point of a pin. This invention, not the ENIAC, ignited the real computer revolution.

 

 
What had happened was an entrepreneurial explosion, with the emergence of some fourteen thousand new software firms. These companies were the catalyst. The United States also generated hundreds of new computer hardware and microchip manufacturers, and they too contributed to the upsurge of the eighties. But software was decisive. Giving dominance to the United States were thousands of young people turning to the personal computer with all the energy and ingenuity that a previous generation had invested in its Model T automobiles.   Just as the personal computer transformed the business systems of the seventies the small computers of the nineties will transform the electronics of broadcasting. Just as a few thousand mainframe computers were linked to hundreds of thousands of dumb terminals, today just over fourteen hundred television stations supply millions of dumb terminals known as television sets.

 

 
The world of computers keeps changing every day and new applications can help us with our entertainment, business and home management, education, cooking, household chores, hobbies, travel and our work.