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Home Toys
October 2005
Michael Breton |
Automation in the Digital Home A detailed account of the installation of a home automation system for an 8,000 square foot home.   |
PC Magazine
March 2, 2004
Bill Howard |
Master of the House Home automation technology is fun and affordable. Here's how to get started. |
Home Toys
April 2004
Paul Custodio |
Affordable Home Automation Solutions The following three examples are simple home solutions that can be implemented in nearly any home on nearly any budget, using equipment available from X10.com. |
Home Toys
October 2002
David Steele |
A Low Cost Home Automation Controller Have you ever wanted to automate a function in your home, but just could not justify the cost of the do-everything home automation controllers? Elk Products' Magicmodule family of programmable controllers offer a good home automation control package at a reasonable price. |
Home Toys
June 2003
Don Marquardt |
"JEANNIE": The House that Listens Home Automation can be both very useful and affordable to even the modest home owner. You can start small and add functions as you get time and money. But if you're building your home, you can go all-out with the necessary equipment for networking and automation relatively inexpensively. |
PC Magazine
October 19, 2004
Troy Dreier |
Do-It-Yourself Home Security Guard your castle with networked cameras. We review 4 systems that let you do the installation on your own. |
PC Magazine
November 2, 2004
Troy Dreier |
Your Automated Home Control your household appliances from a PC, over the Web, or via remote. We review four starter packages. |
Home Toys
December 2003
Barry V. Gordon |
Home Automation at the Gordon Residence My home control system interfaces key subsystems that provide specific control over different devices and functions around the house: Security System, HVAC Thermostats, Touchscreens, Lighting, Text to speech, a Whole House Music System, and Voice recognition. |
PC Magazine
August 17, 2004
Bill Howard |
Geek-Free Home Automation One of life's ironies is that those of us who can dim the living-room lights and switch the stereo to soft jazz at the press of a single button are probably the geeks who can't get a date and take advantage of the romantic atmosphere. |
Home Toys
December 2005
Bill Hubbard |
SoE: Extend your reach with Serial-over-Ethernet With this technology, you can control the lighting, the alarm system, the front gate, virtually anything on your property that is controlled serially, or needs no control beyond the application of power. |
Home Toys
June 2005 |
Motorola Ushers New Era in Home Monitoring & Control Consumers can easily install and customize new solutions that work with existing broadband connections -- enabling users to remain connected and informed. Cost-effective and feature-rich, Motorola's solution monitors and controls a variety of home functions. |
Home Toys
June 2006 |
A New Use for an Old VCR *Low Cost Home Security System * While most other sensors have range limitations, Video Motion Detection has the advantage that any image in the field of view of the video camera can be analyzed for movement and alerts triggered. |
Home Toys
August 2004
Axe & Rosenthal |
Lighting Controls Simplified With the proper lighting control system, lighting within a room or throughout a home can be controlled automatically with a single lighting control button, a remote control, when a door is opened or even when the sun rises and sets. |
IEEE Spectrum
March 2010
James Turner |
The Smart Power Strip A Web-enabled outlet tells you how much power an appliance is consuming and lets you turn it on and off remotely |
PC World
August 22, 2006
Dan Tynan |
Gadget Freak: Your Home Surveillance Network Security systems can keep an eye on your stuff, but be ready for false alerts. |
Home Toys
February 2004
Chris Smith |
Advanced X10 Outdoor Automated Lighting It took a while, but I figured a way to solve my needs to "smartly" control my outdoor lighting with X10 that I'd like to share. Basically, I found a way to get different modes of control for my unintelligent outdoor sensors based on time of day periods. |
Home Toys
August 2004 |
Installing Pan-Tilt-Zoom Cameras - Technical White Paper For installers who have not setup and configured PTZ cameras, it is always a good idea to set the camera up at your shop first using short wire runs. Ensuring you can setup and configure the camera properly will greatly reduce your installation time. |
Home Toys
February 2003
Bob Hetherington |
Omni LT Security and Home Automation System In addition to its security functions, this is a full-blown home automation controller that can make your life a lot easier and more convenient. It will control your powerline lighting and appliance components, thermostats, hard wired devices and more. |
Food Engineering
March 1, 2005
Wayne Labs |
Controls and interfaces give your process a boost An up-to-date process control system can automatically gather information and put it in the proper form for FDA's electronic record keeping regulations. Numerous choices abound -- defining which ones meet your needs will improve your success. |
Home Toys
October 2004
Tom Grounds |
Home Theater Project: Media Room Finding the right place for everything in your home theater system. |
Home Toys
February 2005
Findlay, Lynch & McCormack |
Home Automation Portal Appliance Be it for security, device control, climate control or exterior control, the home automation market continues to grow and thrive. The Home Automation Portal Appliance will soon become an essential addition to most home automation projects of any complexity. |
Home Toys
December 2005
Andrew Reed |
Superna Home Automation Systems Provide Flexibility, Security for Smart Homes With a push of a button, you upload and store the set-up information to every Superna product connected to the network, rendering each one completely independent of the others (in case one device in the network fails). |
Home Toys
June 2005
James Russo |
Home Automation From the Leader in Home Tech If you are in the market for a cheap and easy to use home automation kit, check out the Radio Shack kit. If nothing else, the kit can be a starting place for an end user till he or she expands to more sophisticated kits like X10. |
Home Toys
June 2005 |
X10 Irrigation Control Spring is here and we have a home automation idea we'd like to spring on you: X10 Irrigation Control with the WGL Rain8 Irrigation Controller. |
Home Toys
June 2002
Ant Skelton |
Marmitek AWM2 Micro-Module The Marmitek AWM2 micro-module is the first to market of the new breed of modules supporting ACT's A10 (Advanced X10) protocol. The AWM2 has two switch inputs: the first controls the built-in appliance module, and the second is transmitted as X10 on the mains wiring. |
Home Toys
June 2005 |
How to Increase Safety and Security Around the House No more are you limited by the wiring systems that were installed when they built your home. New wireless home control systems can easily modernize your home's electrical system and much more. |
Home Toys
February 2003
Craig Chadwick |
X10 Debugging Tips If you use X10, you will inevitably experience some of the problems described here. Hopefully this information will help you resolve the problem as quickly and painlessly as possible. |
PC World
May 21, 2007
Kirk Steers |
Do-It-Yourself Surveillance Protects Home or Business Webcams and IP cameras let you keep an eye on your property while you're away. |
| This Old House |
Product Innovation: Remote-Controlled Lighting Easy, affordable ways to get whole-house lighting control without rewiring. |
Home Toys
February 2003
Hin Oey |
IP-Enabled Home Automation IP-enabled devices and components are aware of other components on the net and are capable to interact directly with each other without human interference or a central management computer; when the door opens, the light, heating, and ventilation 'know' that they should become active. |
CIO
June 1, 2002
Christopher Lindquist |
See It All Internet-enabled cameras with motion sensors can be used to monitor your home. New models are reaching lower price points. |
PC Magazine
April 6, 2004
Craig Ellison |
Watch Your Home or Business from Afar Connect one of these cameras from D-Link, Toshiba, or Veo to your network and survey your domain from anywhere in the world. |
Home Toys
April 2005
James W. Johnston |
New Technologies Create a Mainstream Market for Residential Control & Automation Systems It appears that an entirely new wave of affordable, mainstream residential control and automation systems will be on the market in 2005. |
Home Toys
April 2006 |
Programmable Logic Controller -- Hardware The PLC is a versatile product that has many hardware options to accommodate the large number of different electrical interfaces out there. The PLC is modular in design so that one can mix and match the input/output (I/O) hardware requirements to meet the needs of the project. |
Home Toys
February 2003
Jimmy Busby |
Hardwired Lighting Control: Now Affordable and Reliable Because of the complexity and the high cost, lighting control and whole house integration has only been available to a fortunate few. By keeping devices simple and programming easy, automation can become something that everyone can use. |
PC Magazine
October 5, 2004
Bill Howard |
Home Automation that Works Zensys Z-Wave, a 908.4-MHz, UPnP-compliant mesh-networking protocol, is a home automation system that really works. |
Home Toys
June 2005
Adrian Mason |
Home Access -- Access Management -- the Future QuickLock Remote Entry Systems: Everything is available -- there are electric locks, electric strikes to fit to existing locks, electric deadbolts (fail safe and fail secure), magnetic locks, electrically driven multipoint locks for energy efficiency and high security. |
Home Toys
April 2004 |
Home Technology Integration The objective of this article is to provide you with a primer regarding the issues that must be considered when contemplating the installation of a Home Automation System. |
Entrepreneur
April 2004
Amanda C. Kooser |
Feeling Insecure? If so, wireless surveillance cameras could help you make your business environment safer. |
Home Toys
August 2002
Jack Barcroft |
Home Control & the Personal Computer (HCPC): the perfect Match This paper explores the emerging HCPC market, the technology behind United Home, and why it is poised to become a catalyst for sale of computing products, PCs, CE devices, wireless access points, Internet services, entertainment gear, and integrator services. |
Home Toys
October 2004 |
30 year anniversary: Dave Rye of X10 X10 is regarded as the De Facto standard for Home Automation. |
Home Toys
December 2002
Roger Stamm |
Lighting Your Way to a More Secure, More Beautiful Home The features and advantages of modern lighting control systems are truly incredible. Technological advancements have given us comprehensive and affordable home lighting controls that can do things Thomas Edison would have never dreamed were possible. |
Home Toys
February 2005
Eugene Kowch |
Why is There a Need for an Electrical Design? An electrical design will gather all switching requirements for the home. Determine what level of control is acceptable and propose an electrical control system to meet these needs. |
Entrepreneur
August 2005
Amanda C. Kooser |
Right in Sight The internet and affordable equipment have made do-it-yourself video surveillance of your home or business possible. And the availability of wireless devices makes installation easier and expands the options where cameras can be placed -- and viewed. |
Technology Research News
July 2, 2003
Eric Smalley |
Light pipes track motion Researchers at Duke University have devised a simple tracking method that promises to dramatically reduce the computing resources needed for computer vision systems that allow computers and robots to sense their surroundings. |
Home Toys
April 2004 |
Software Issues and the Home Theater Personal Computer If things remain as they are now, the growing family of software based media management products is not going to be taken seriously in the automation world. |
PC Magazine
August 30, 2006
Bill Machrone |
Quick & Easy Car Upgrades Add a backup camera to your car... Install a collision detector... |
| This Old House |
3 Reasons to Get Remote Lighting Control The advantages of remote control lighting are convenience and deterring burglars. |
Home Toys
June 2003 |
Webcomodore: the Ultimate Energy Cost Buster Web services are not only used for entertainment or information technology but also for building/home automation or for energy management. Shovon's Internet-ready Webcomodore product line utilizes the power of the Internet to help users to administer energy spending. |
