A smart home may be defined as a well-designed structure with sufficient access to assets, communication, controls, data, and information technologies for enhancing the occu-pants’ quality of life through comfort, convenience, reduced costs, and increased connectivity. The idea has been widely acknowledged for decades, but few people have ever seen a smart home, and fewer still have occupied one. A commonly cited reason for this slow growth has been the exorbitant cost associated with upgrading existing building stock to include “smart” technologies such as network connected appliances. However, consumers have histori-cally been willing to incur significant costs for new communication technologies, such as cellular telephones, broadband internet connections, and television services.
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Unique Paper ID: 143757
Publication Volume & Issue: Volume 3, Issue 1
Page(s): 124 - 125
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