Thoraiya DyerJEITA House: What is it and why you would want one (Or not!)
November 25th 2006 07:18
Once you get your house networked in the JEITA house way, you can picture these:
-Sony's pet robot Aibo greets visitors, and performs a unique "welcome dance" to greet different members of the family
-Cellphone lets you water the garden and feed the dog outside, remotely check for the door delivery
-Fingerprint scanner replaces the common doorknob to confirm the identity of the person who wants to open the door
-Intelligent box for parcels outside the door recognizes the identification of the delivery and issues a signed receipt to the deliverer.
-Remote control lets you open curtains, turn on lights or the air conditioner.
-Ambient intelligence sends e-mail order for more to a store when beer in the fridge or rice in the pantry runs out, or automatically adjusts to a family member's habits.
For example, if one family member habitually goes to the bathroom in the middle of the night, the system can spring into action as soon as the person gets up from bed, automatically warming the toilet seat and lighting the way to the bathroom.
-Sensors linked to your cellphone in a specially modified bed monitors your sick grandma's health conditions and alerts you of irregularities in her breathing or pulse rate.
-Automatic clothesline pulls down the covering sheet over your clothes when the rain starts to fall.
-Hands-free speaker/microphone with voice-recognition and voice command capabilities in every room
Obviously the JEITA house hasn't eliminated the push button, but merely put it in the backseat of controls. If the house doesn't convert you into a believer, or you aren't that fascinated with the Aibo robot, you may want to look elsewhere for other versions of the smart home.
Others, most notably the Philips HomeLab in the Netherlands, not only recognize your voice and movement, but also come with digital displays within the bathroom mirror and ambient intelligent features that take advantage of ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE to react to and predict your needs. In the end, all you really have to do is just sit back on the couch after a hard day's work, and say "Music, where are you?" And the music will play smoothly from there.
This could still pose a problem for those who don't have networked homes and spend their time traveling more than staying indoors. A smart car would do the trick.
Learn more about the smart car here:
In the future: Genius Cars that won't let you drive?
LINKS
http://www.pcworld.com/article/id,82066-page,1/article.html
http://www.futureforall.org
-Sony's pet robot Aibo greets visitors, and performs a unique "welcome dance" to greet different members of the family
-Cellphone lets you water the garden and feed the dog outside, remotely check for the door delivery
-Fingerprint scanner replaces the common doorknob to confirm the identity of the person who wants to open the door
-Intelligent box for parcels outside the door recognizes the identification of the delivery and issues a signed receipt to the deliverer.
-Remote control lets you open curtains, turn on lights or the air conditioner.
-Ambient intelligence sends e-mail order for more to a store when beer in the fridge or rice in the pantry runs out, or automatically adjusts to a family member's habits.
For example, if one family member habitually goes to the bathroom in the middle of the night, the system can spring into action as soon as the person gets up from bed, automatically warming the toilet seat and lighting the way to the bathroom.
-Sensors linked to your cellphone in a specially modified bed monitors your sick grandma's health conditions and alerts you of irregularities in her breathing or pulse rate.
-Automatic clothesline pulls down the covering sheet over your clothes when the rain starts to fall.
-Hands-free speaker/microphone with voice-recognition and voice command capabilities in every room
Obviously the JEITA house hasn't eliminated the push button, but merely put it in the backseat of controls. If the house doesn't convert you into a believer, or you aren't that fascinated with the Aibo robot, you may want to look elsewhere for other versions of the smart home.
Others, most notably the Philips HomeLab in the Netherlands, not only recognize your voice and movement, but also come with digital displays within the bathroom mirror and ambient intelligent features that take advantage of ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE to react to and predict your needs. In the end, all you really have to do is just sit back on the couch after a hard day's work, and say "Music, where are you?" And the music will play smoothly from there.
This could still pose a problem for those who don't have networked homes and spend their time traveling more than staying indoors. A smart car would do the trick.
Learn more about the smart car here:
In the future: Genius Cars that won't let you drive?
LINKS
http://www.pcworld.com/article/id,82066-page,1/article.html
http://www.futureforall.org
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