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When you think of the future what do you see? Of course, there's the flying cars and hover boards, but what do you see the infrastructure of the world of tomorrow being like and even your home. In the 1930’s there was this idea of an electric broom that would collect up the dirt on your floors and nowadays that is the essential household device. Right now we are in a time where a grand revolutionary idea might again become a reality. But at the moment instead of the dream of instant dirt and dust disposal, we have a much bigger dream, a home that talks to you, cleans itself, gets your clothes ready for any occasion and can be controlled from the other side of the earth: “A smart home.” So what exactly is a smart house? If you are looking for a single official definition well, unfortunately that doesn't exactly exist yet. We simply don't have a single idea of what a smart house or home is but in essence it is a house or living environment that has every device in your house connected to a mainframe as to control and retrieve data from all your appliances. There have been multiple exa...

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