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| robotics | |
| accessibility | |
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REMOTE CONTROL Most modern House s have Appliance s that allow some degree of Remote Control . Domotics aims to integrate and extend this throughout the house. A house with a domotics system installed might have many computers, perhaps built into the walls, to allow the homeowner to control applications in any part of their house from any other. AUTOMATIC ACTIVITIES A house with domotics is expected to be able to call the Police or the Firemen by itself, with more subtlety and a wider variety of allowances than normal Alarm systems. On a daily basis, domotic systems are often supposed to be able to automatically gather data from several Sensor s and do such things as adjust lights and music to the personal preferences of each member of the household, as they come into or leave a particular room. The simplest systems require that each person wear a marker, such as an RFID tag, while the more sophisticated ones detect movement, body heat, and other individual characteristics. Some tasks that domotics fulfills:
DISADVANTAGES The convenience of domotics comes at a cost. Some systems can be expensive to install, but not all of them require installation (see X10 ). There is also the possibility that a systems crash could leave the house without an effective heating or lighting system. These issues can be largely overcome, however, using newer technologies and techniques. As early as 1957 , the foibles of an early version of the "automatic" house were gently mocked in the witty film '' Mon Oncle '' by Jacques Tati . The film won the Academy Award For Best Foreign Language Film in 1958 . INTELLIGENT SYSTEMS The great potential of these systems lies in their ability to apply Computer Programming to act in what could be called "intelligent" ways. This involves the programming of logic that takes into account variables such as temperature, time, power status etc., e.g.: TURN ON kitchen lights IF light levels are low AND person is home ELSE TURN OFF kitchen lights IF on. Future systems will apply Artificial Intelligence (AI) systems that learn and use Fuzzy Logic to make decisions about the domestic environment, e.g.: unlocking the door to the home owner who is locked out of their own home, but not to casual passers by. SEE ALSO Standards ORGANIZATIONS Others
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