| What is a smart home? A smart home is a home | | | | home security system. |
| wired in such a way that all the electronic elements, | | | | In fact, the fact that a person can view a home |
| such as your television, home security system, lights, | | | | security system remotely is one of the best aspects |
| etc. communicate with each other, and also with you. | | | | of automation and smart wiring. Let's imagine an |
| This concept used to only be found in books about | | | | alarm system consisting of window sensors, door |
| the future. Lights that illuminate when you walk in the | | | | sensors, a fire alarm, a carbon monoxide alarm, as |
| door, and then dim whenever you're about to start a | | | | well as a series of video cameras strategically placed |
| movie are common in many homes these days. | | | | throughout the house. That home would be |
| That's because smart homes and smart wiring are | | | | extremely secure with all of that home security |
| becoming cheaper and more readily available. It's said | | | | equipment. But then, when you consider the fact |
| that Bill Gates once spent $100 Million dollars to build a | | | | that smart wiring allows a person to monitor that |
| smart home. This was many years ago. These days, | | | | system remotely the system becomes that much |
| the practice is finally available to the average | | | | more powerful. |
| residential home builder. | | | | By securing a connection on a cell phone or laptop, |
| When it comes to automation and smart wiring, | | | | for instance, the homeowner can monitor the |
| nearly every device in the home can be linked. This | | | | sensors on the doors and windows to ensure the |
| not only allows a person to control everything in the | | | | house is secure and can even view the images |
| house from a single control box or remote control, | | | | captured by the video cameras. Automation and |
| but images from cameras or displays from other | | | | smart wiring bring a completely new aspect to the |
| appliances can even be viewed on a cell phone or | | | | concept of home security. |
| computer with an internet connection. | | | | As more homes become smart, and automated, |
| This allows a person to potentially control the HVAC | | | | we're going to see more and more people using this |
| units in the home, lighting, turn off the coffee maker | | | | smart wiring to connect their home security systems. |
| or oven if the person forgot to turn it off before | | | | That means homes are going to become safer than |
| leaving the house and the person can even view a | | | | they ever were before. |