When I was growing up, I loved watching those “House of the Future” shows where everything was controlled with the push of a button. I’ve recently been working with a company in CT, Cyclone Home Systems, that provides a number of things to homeowners very similar to the things we saw when we were growing up. Of course, they have now-conventional offerings like home intercoms, but the future of companies like this one lies in the futuristic structured wiring, security and automated window treatments offered.
The average consumer can always implement the basics of home security and automation through products like Internet cameras for home security, MPEG capture cards and plug in modules but this new generation of professional automation solutions are another story altogether. The structured wiring system’s combination of media, security and thermostat controls can
…distribute music and television to every room in your house, to control lighting everywhere in your home, to sound a security alarm when an intruder lurks outside, or to remotely monitor areas of your property where security cameras are set up.
Now that’s what those future-thinking shows promised when I was a kid! I haven’t had the pleasure of using any of Cyclone’s products/services, but their description of this “smart” house system is definitely interesting. Two questions: one serious, one not. Serious: whatever happened to those Internet-equipped refrigerators that were supposed to order groceries for us? Not so serious: where’s my jet car?
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February 9th, 2008 at 2:51 am. Permalink.