Smart Home Technology




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DELAWARE GROUP                                                                  12.05.2011
Introduction
 • What is Smart Home?
       – It is one of the applications of Smart technologies within our home, in creating
         a comfortable home and an effective lifestyle;
       – It improves automation control and monitoring of household devices and
       – And connect via standard means of communication for its operation.

 • Features of Smart Home
 • Why Smart Home: the benefits
 • Conclusion




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Features of Smart Home
 Few of the features include but limited to:
 • Home Security System                                •   Distributed Entertainment Systems
 • Controlled Exterior & Interior Lighting                 (Video and Audio systems)

 • Automatic Window and Curtain                        •   Intercom/Telephony Systems
 • Automatic Garage Door                               •   Home Energy management systems




                      Figure 1a


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Why Smart Home
 Smart Home is applicable in various aspect of our
 home and environment to suite our different
 preferences.
 • Comfort or Ease of control
 • Entertainment
 • Security
 • convenience at all times,
 • lifestyle personalisation and
 • User friendly




                                                       Figure 2a


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Why Smart Home: Comfort/Ease of Control
 Smart Home offers ease of controlling devices around
 the home. This is one of its outstanding feature.

 These features offers automation and remote control
 of devices around the home from any location within
 such as:

 •   Automatic control of garage door and gate(s);
                                                                      Figure 3a
 •   Automatic shut down of appliance when not in use;
 •   Automatic setting and maintenance of right
     temperature for each room;
 •   Automatically adjust/ regulate light intensity
     based on room luminosity.




                                                       Figure 3b


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Why Smart Home: Entertainment
Smart Home offers multi room entertainment network which
enables listening of audio music and watching of movies
from any part in the house.

Easy Control
• Parental control feature on television channels for children
   to watch only certain programmes.
Digital Access
• Access favourite CD’s, DVD’s from any music system
   and television around the home;
Digital Storage
• System automatically stores most played
   music based on number of play.
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                                                             Figure 4b

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Why Smart Home: Security
 Security Camera
 • Controlled motion sensitive cameras which allows for
    observation of activities
 • Capture and record video surveillance.
 Emergency
 • Initiate emergency alarm or audible intruder alert
 • Activate sprinkler and fire extinguishing system in case
    fire emergency
                                                              Figure 5a
 • Automatic de-activation of electric systems and
    activate emergency light
 Controlled Access
 • Granting access using finger print, eye or face
    recognition
 • The System informs the user if a visitor is at the
    door; the owner can then grant or deny access
                                                                  Figure 5b


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Why Smart Home: Health

 SMART homes offers benefits for the
 disabled and elderly persons in the
 various ways:
 • Monitory systems
 • Automated alarm systems directly
    connected to hospitals in cases of
    incidents like a fall or collapse
 • Alert systems for the notification on                 Figure 8a


    prescribed medications




                                                       Figure 8a
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Challenges of Smart Home Technologies
 • Ethical questions about privacy and
   data protection on the Smart Home
   devices
 • Cost of implementation
 • More vulnerabilities in the over-
   all systems
 • Complexities in the multiple
   functionality of the technology




                                                       Figure 6a

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Future of Smart Home Technologies
   Smart home technology is one of the emerging
   technologies growing affordably at a competitive
   rate in the technological world enhancing home
   security, entertainment, comfort and health.




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Conclusion
    In conclusion, Smart Home technology makes it
    possible for the house to take care of you.




                                                       Figure 7a




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   Delaware Group – Smart Home Educational Presentation                                                             12 May 2011