The world of home automation is an exciting sector that has arises over the past couple of years with many new technologies in both commercial and open source worlds. Home automation is known by a variety of names including smart homes, home networking, sensor-embedded houses and adaptive homes.
Home automation refers to the use of automation technology, computer technology and telecommunication technology in the residential extension of building automation to give the user a developed living condition, entertainment and security. It also refers to homes installed with monitoring and controlling systems with sensors, actuators and biomedical monitors as well as wiring or wireless technology to enable residents to program, control and operate
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History and Evolution of Home Automation
The idea of home automation technology as well as building technology existed around for decades before becoming reality and featured in the writing of the 19th century science fiction author HG Wells. Furthermore the concept of smart homes appeared in cartoons such as ‘The Jetsons’, which aired in the early 1960s, mankind lived in a high tech world alongside robots and computers. But no one knows the exact date of the invention of home automation or smart homes.
In 1966, Jim Sutherland, an engineer employed with Westinghouse Electric, developed a machine known as “Electronic Computing Home Operator”, or “ECHO IV”, what could be called the first computerized home automation system. [2] Figure 1: ECHO IV
The ECHO was featured in the April 1968 issue of Popular Mechanics. According to the Magazine the engineer and his wife were extending the system to compute the family household finances, store recipes, shopping lists, control home temperature, turn appliances on and off, and predict the
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This resulted the industry provide with the tools for building smart home appliances and systems.
The Ethernet and WiFi provided a mechanism that could allow computers and electronic appliances to communicate with each other at home without needing to use the existing electrical wiring. As the norm of accessing information across the Internet is done with protocol such as FTP and HTTP, hardware developers saw the opportunity to take advantage of these communications technologies in open source hardware devices. Whereas X10 had lack of confirmation message without expensive two way devices, web technologies provide a whole framework for returning error codes and messages.[1]
Since 2005 the world has been presented with the explosion in mobile, tablet and Smartphone devices. This advancement has been generally identified as the “post-PC” era. This era of post PC has provided mobile computing platforms that can run complex software and small enough to fit the user’s pocket. As a result of their size, portability, they gave the perfect platform for interfacing with home appliances and devices. Due to this applications have been developed for the iPhone and Android that allow the user to control consumer electronics such as TV, Entertainment Media and so
For most people, not having a cell phone is unimaginable and without one we feel disconnected from the world. The leading device that helps us survive and navigate through this current hi-tech world is the Apple iPhone. With features like 3G network capability and remote database access it offers full computer functionality in the palm of a hand. Besides voice calls and text messages, the iPhone allows for full web browsing, email, and allows the installation of applications to further enhance usability through its own AppStore. But what if one wanted to push the iPhone’s capabilities beyond the limit of what Apple is willing to provide? The answer can be found in our other world, the cyber-world.
Home health is a service provided to recovering, disabled, or chronically ill person. It provides treatment to help the patient function in a home environment. Home health provides a wide range of health and social services delivered at home whether its medical, nursing, social, or therapeutic treatment. With the many advances in technology and medical equipment home health allows patients to receive treatment in home versus a visit to the hospital or a stay in a long-term care facility. A patient choosing to receive home health feels that it gives them a sense of independence and comfort.
Home environment refers to aspects of people’s domestic lives that contribute to their living conditions. These factors may be physical (poverty, psychological conditions due to parenting; social circumstances (Empty nest, living alone etc or wider cultural patterns of life related to the location (Suburban environments, Urban environments
In 500 B.C. the abacus was first used by the Babylonians as an aid to simple arithmetic. In 1623 Wihelm Schickard (1592 - 1635) invented a "Calculating Clock". This mechanical machine could add and subtract up to 6 digit numbers, and warned of an overflow by ringing a bell. J. H. Mueller comes up with the idea of the "difference engine", in 1786. This calculator could tabulate values of a polynomial. Muellers attempt to raise funds fails and the project was forgotten. Scheutz and his son Edward produced a 3rd order difference engine with a printer in 1843 and their government agreed to fund their next project.
Another invention that is now frequently used is the computer. The concept was made in 1822, by Charles Babbage, but it wasn’t until 1837 when he ...
As our research into science and technology ever increases its seems inevitable that in the near future Artificial Intelligent machines will exist and become part of our everyday life such as we see with modern computers today.
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When searching for the latest device you have a choice between apple, and android. These two are similar but very different. Infact these both have two different operating systems. For instance Apple uses IOS 9, apple phones can use this software. On android the software 5.0 is used. All these phones run different programs, you need to make sure that is the right phone for you. There are many different features and styles of phones you can get. Also these all come at a price. This paper will talk about all these topics to make sure you have an idea on what device you would like to buy.
Gupta, Satyandra K. When Will We Have Robots To Help With Household Chores? 2 January 2014.
The Glass Cage: How Our Computers Are Changing Us by Nicholas Carr is a technological study about automation. Carr defines automation as “the use of computers and software to do things we used to do by ourselves” (1). Our society believes that automation is progress and benefits us in a positive way, but Carr challenges that idea. He criticizes society’s dependency on technology and the consequences that it has on our future. As a society we welcome technology and are amazed by its capabilities and the many ways it has simplified our lives. Carr acknowledges the benefits of automation, but believes they come with hidden human costs.
The fist computer, known as the abacus, was made of wood and parallel wires on which beads were strung. Arithmetic operations were performed when the beads were moved along the wire according to “programming” rules that had to be memorized by the user (Soma, 14). The second earliest computer, invented by Blaise Pascal in 1694, was a “digital calculating machine.” Pascal designed this first known digital computer to help his father, who was a tax collector. Pascal’s computer could only add numbers, and they had to be entered by turning dials (Soma, 32). It required a manual process like its ancestor, the abacus. Automation was introduced in the early 1800’s by a mathematics professor named Charles Babbage. He created an automatic calculation machine that was steam powered and stored up to 1000 50-digit numbers. Unlike its two earliest ancestors, Babbage’s invention was able to perform various operations. It relied on cards with holes punched in them, which are called “punch cards.” These cards carried out the programming and storing operations for the machine. Unluckily, Babbage’s creation flopped due to the lack of mechanical precision and the lack of demand for the product (Soma, 46). The machine could not operate efficiently because technology was t adequate to make the machine operate efficiently Computer interest dwindled for many years, and it wasn’t until the mid-1800’s that people became interested in them once again.
One of the most popular vacuum cleaners at this time is iRobot's Roomba. The creative engineering behind the Roomba enables the robot to much less expensive when compared to other robotic vacuums of the same size. Most of the other robots use a complex set of sensors and integrated programming to navigate across a floor. The Roomba on the other hand uses a creative and inexpen...
The history of the computer dates back all the way to the prehistoric times. The first step towards the development of the computer, the abacus, was developed in Babylonia in 500 B.C. and functioned as a simple counting tool. It was not until thousands of years later that the first calculator was produced. In 1623, the first mechanical calculator was invented by Wilhelm Schikard, the “Calculating Clock,” as it was often referred to as, “performed it’s operations by wheels, which worked similar to a car’s odometer” (Evolution, 1). Still, there had not yet been anything invented that could even be characterized as a computer. Finally, in 1625 the slide rule was created becoming “the first analog computer of the modern ages” (Evolution, 1). One of the biggest breakthroughs came from by Blaise Pascal in 1642, who invented a mechanical calculator whose main function was adding and subtracting numbers. Years later, Gottfried Leibnez improved Pascal’s model by allowing it to also perform such operations as multiplying, dividing, taking the square root.
The world we live in today is surrounded by automated machines and we all need to understand that our world around us is changing more and more every day. It’s a scary thing to think about but we all need to know what’s going on in our work force and the impact automation is having on our work force. Automation is making more and more of an impact on the work force every day. Automation is effecting jobs especially in the automobile industry, the programming industry, and in the food industry.
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