Smart Homes: Coming to a Neighborhood Near You
December 14th, 2011The smart home of the future is here. Rooms detect your presence and change lighting, temperature, and airflow according to personalized settings. Smart thermostats learn our behaviors and appropriately adjust for heating and cooling. Appliances respond to signals from utilities that turn off when prices and demand are at their daily peak, saving the homeowner money. Sound like science fiction?
Smart homes are now possible because of the smart grid, a digitally updated energy grid that allows for multiple technologies and networks to operate and communicate with one another to better manage electricity. This is a big project, one that …