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| The Entrance An hour before you arrive home, your house's thermostat, which had been set to conserve energy during the day, adjusts hour HVAC systems to your pre-selected temperature. As you approach the front door, walkway lights and entryway lights turn on automatically. As you identify yourself to the biometric security scanner, which automatically unlocks and opens the front door, the security camera, powered by the Leviton Integrated Networks system, captures your image. Anyone can simply look at any TV screen of PC monitor in the house to know that you're the person at the front door. As you step into the entryway, you can arm or disarm your security system from the touch-pad next to the door and check for recorded messages from anyone who may have stopped by the house while you were away, and select your lighting and audio/visual preference. | |
| The Living Room As you enter the living room, your connected home adjusts the lights to our just-home-from-work lighting scenario. After the audio system has retrieved and replayed your day's phone messages, you hear the soothing strains of a Beethoven concerto - the music provided by an Internet radio station or your favorite digital music playlist and played on the iPAQ Music Center. And the blinds, which were shut during the day, open automatically to let you watch the sunset. To catch the latest news, you switch from the radio to the digital TV, one of several in your home that can provide video signals from several sources (cable, satellite, VCR, DVD, PVR), again thanks to the Leviton Integrated Networks system. With the digital TV and the Catipultdvd, both from Lumenati NetTV, you can surf the Web and watch TV simultaneously. And with your handheld iPAQ Pocket PC, you can check your calendar to see what events were planned for the evening. | |
| The Kitchen Thinking about dinner, you move to the kitchen, followed by the sounds of Beethoven. You grab a gourmet frozen dinner, scan its barcode into the microwave's reader, which fetches the cooking directions from the Internet, allowing the microwave to automatically adjust the cooking power and time for the dinner you've selected. Then, you use the kitchen's touchscreen to turn down the volume on the audio system so you can speak to the voice-activated PC in the kitchen planning center. As you plan a dinner for an upcoming family birthday, your PC checks your needs against the pantry inventory, creates a list of missing items, and sends an order to an online grocery service, which will deliver the items to your door. The kitchen PC is part of a home-wide network of PCs and laptops, connected either via Ethernet or wireless technology, thanks to iPAQ networking products. In addition, you can network your home using phone line and Home PNA products. | |
| The Home Theater While waiting for your frozen dinner to cook, you relax in your home theater, which boasts a 60-inch theater-quality screen, instant access to thousands of movies, the most up-to-date surround sound technology, and Internet access to movie and music providers. As you sift through a list of available movies, from your DVD library and your PVR selections, the television screen displays a message from the microwave, announcing that your dinner is ready. Later, while watching a movie, you use cinema-style controls, powered by the Leviton Integrated Networks system, to select the proper lighting ambience. | |
| The Dining Room While eating your meal in the dining room, you use your home phoneline network's Web connection and the iPAQ microprojector to initiate a videoconference with your wife, who's working late at the office. The flat-panel screen on the wall switches from an art print you selected from an Internet provider to a live Web-cam view of your wife. Your wireless network lets you use your PDA to adjust the dining room lights, which are connected to your home's integrated network distribution center, to match any mood (dining, party, daytime activities). As you eat, you talk with your wife about your day, and she reminds you that you have no clean shirts. | |
| The Utility Room As you enter the utility room with a basket of clothes, the light turns on automatically. After you load the clothes in the washer, the machine automatically adjusts the water quantity and temperature to the type of load. Because the spin rate of the drum isn't quite fast enough, the washer sends an email to the manufacturer so t hat a service representative can make an appointment to fix it. The utility room houses the brains of your smart home: the distribution center for Leviton Integrated Networks. The distribution center is the central hub from which Category 5 and RG-6 coaxial cable are run to usage points throughout the house. The system supports simultaneous Internet sharing and whole-house audio and multi-room video. When you leave the utility room, the light turns off automatically. | |
| The Nursery No matter where you are in the house, you can use a nearby TV screen or PC monitor to check on baby in the nursery. A 24x7 camera keeps tabs on the baby and the nursery's audio system plays a continuous stream of soothing lullabies that you've selected from a music provider. In addition, you can use your home automation systems to turn on or off the lights in the nursery and to monitor and adjust the temperature. | |
| The Teen's Room Using your home's high-speed Internet connection, which has firewall protection, Junior's busy in his room, playing a 3-D video game with friends across town, conducting several instant messaging sessions, and reading and writing emails while simultaneously researching a school report on volcanic activity in the state of Washington. When he finishes his report, he can rip the latest CDs and select movies from your DVD and PVR libraries. Then, his iPAQ Pocket PC reminds him that it's time to get ready for his big date. During the week, he also participates in an online distance learning class offered by the local community college. | |
| The Home Office On your way to bed, you stop in your home office for a last-minute check of your email and to enter your next day's planned activities into your online calendar. Your business day will begin at home with an early morning videoconference with colleagues two states away. To set the tone for the conference, you download the theme from "Rocky" and set it to play on your home office's mini audio system. You will be able to connect to the conference via the appropriate network quickly and easily, thanks to MultiNetwork Manager from StorageSoft Solutions. A server in your home office runs the SYS Automation Software that controls the devices in your home. McAfee's VirusScan protects the server, and other computers in your home, from viruses. As you leave, you notice that Junior has printed information from the Internet about volcanic activity on the home office's network printer. | |
| The Master Bedroom You've arrived at your haven from the world, complete with large-screen TV, music at the touch of a button, specialized lighting settings, automatic temperature controls, and limitless options for waking up to Internet radio, CD's or TV programs. You crawl into bed, ready to relax and watch a movie being transmitted from your DVD player or PVR in the home theater to the TV in your bedroom. | |
| The Garage Even your garage is connected to the outside world. On the TV in your workshop, you can watch your favorite home repair show, play a car repair video, or search the Web for the materials you need for your latest project. And you can sleep easily, knowing that your sprinkler system will talk to the Weather Channel to determine the optimal lawn and shrub watering based on the forecast. |