http://www.smart-homeowner.com/category/product-sections/home-electronics/automation-0 The taxonomy view with a depth of 0. en http://www.smart-homeowner.com/content/disney-gets-innoventive Tomorrowland has seen the future and it is now. Since opening half a century ago, the fabled Disneyland destination has provided millions of visitors with glimpses into tomorrow’s homes. Now a new generation of visitors to the Anaheim, Calif., theme park will get a peek at future habitats, tha... http://www.smart-homeowner.com/content/disney-gets-innoventive#comments Home Electronics/Automation On the Horizon Wed, 31 Dec 1969 19:33:28 -0500 9264 at http://www.smart-homeowner.com http://www.smart-homeowner.com/content/x10-explained-controlling-your-home-without-re-wiring X10 is a popular technology that allows you to control electrical devices throughout your house with existing 110-volt wiring, eliminating the need to run new wires - a costly enterprise in some cases. Because X10 equipment simply plugs into wall outlets, it's usually simple to install and use. But ... http://www.smart-homeowner.com/content/x10-explained-controlling-your-home-without-re-wiring#comments Home Electronics/Automation Wed, 31 Dec 1969 19:33:27 -0500 7690 at http://www.smart-homeowner.com http://www.smart-homeowner.com/content/household-fuel-gauge Home automation systems can sometimes seem a bit, well, superfluous. It's nice to be able to control lights all over the house or pre-program the heat, but is it really all that useful? Smart Systems Technologies has developed an automation system that it insists really is useful. Its Em-Power syste... http://www.smart-homeowner.com/content/household-fuel-gauge#comments Home Electronics/Automation Wed, 31 Dec 1969 19:33:27 -0500 Curt Hazlett 7781 at http://www.smart-homeowner.com http://www.smart-homeowner.com/content/guide-language-cellular-technology CDMA (Code Division Multiple Access) - The most common digital technology in which information is digitized, assigned a unique code and spread over the entire bandwidth available to the phone. The receiver uses the same code to reassemble the signal. CDMA allows as many as 10 separate calls to occup... http://www.smart-homeowner.com/content/guide-language-cellular-technology#comments Home Electronics/Automation Wed, 31 Dec 1969 19:33:27 -0500 7802 at http://www.smart-homeowner.com http://www.smart-homeowner.com/content/lowdown-high-definition-tv If you want the best picture money can buy, high-definition television (HDTV) offers jaw-dropping clarity. But when you start making decisions about which set to buy, that picture looks muddy. As with any new technology, the prices are falling - they already dropped about 40 percent over the last th... http://www.smart-homeowner.com/content/lowdown-high-definition-tv#comments Home Electronics/Automation Wed, 31 Dec 1969 19:33:27 -0500 Jennie L. Phipps 8007 at http://www.smart-homeowner.com http://www.smart-homeowner.com/content/home-rf-alternative You may have heard of another wireless networking technology called HomeRF. HomeRF uses the 2.4-GHz band just like Wi-Fi, but the standard is squarely aimed at the home and has had a slow start due to late approval from the FCC for a faster version that closely matches Wi-Fi's speed. Wi-Fi has built... http://www.smart-homeowner.com/content/home-rf-alternative#comments Home Electronics/Automation Wed, 31 Dec 1969 19:33:27 -0500 8078 at http://www.smart-homeowner.com http://www.smart-homeowner.com/content/tv-goes-high-tech Television has never been easier to watch. But a visit to any home electronics store shows that choosing which new television to buy has never been more complicated. Over half a century, television has evolved as a portal for information and entertainment. Despite the Internet, it remains... http://www.smart-homeowner.com/content/tv-goes-high-tech#comments Home Electronics/Automation Wed, 31 Dec 1969 19:33:27 -0500 Tux Turkel 8090 at http://www.smart-homeowner.com http://www.smart-homeowner.com/content/case-pre-wiring If you're interested in home automation and you're building or renovating your house, give serious thought to pre-wiring it for the future. Installing an advanced cable system will serve your needs now and well into the future, and it's a lot easier to do before the drywall goes up. Cabling needs to... http://www.smart-homeowner.com/content/case-pre-wiring#comments Home Electronics/Automation Wed, 31 Dec 1969 19:33:27 -0500 8216 at http://www.smart-homeowner.com http://www.smart-homeowner.com/content/un-wired-lifestyle Multiple computers sharing one printer, family photos stored on a PC shown on a large-screen TV, music files stored on a computer but played through a stereo system, no more waiting to go online until someone else finishes, digital images displayed on any PC in the house showing the view from a wire... http://www.smart-homeowner.com/content/un-wired-lifestyle#comments Home Electronics/Automation Wed, 31 Dec 1969 19:33:27 -0500 William & Patty Feldman 8699 at http://www.smart-homeowner.com http://www.smart-homeowner.com/content/where-wi-fi-operates Wi-Fi uses part of the radio spectrum - the 2.4-gigahertz (GHz) band reserved by the Federal Communications Commission for unlicensed use. This means that although the equipment you purchase has been approved by the FCC (and its regulatory counterparts if you're outside the United States), you don't... http://www.smart-homeowner.com/content/where-wi-fi-operates#comments Home Electronics/Automation Wed, 31 Dec 1969 19:33:27 -0500 8954 at http://www.smart-homeowner.com