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UAB EE418/518 Wireless Communication Team Project

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Technology Overview:

Home monitoring and control systems are a rapidly growing and changing technology that is just beginning to be used by consumers. Most of the communication technology that is used in home systems is cutting edge, such as Bluetooth and 802.11 wireless protocols, X10 communication schemes, infrared, or ultra wide-band. With such a system, one can remotely monitor and/or control many things in his home by accessing the home control system via a cell-phone or over the internet. This paper closely examines three home systems that are currently on the market and discusses how they work and what features they have. A home control system can do provide anything from automatic alerts to your cell phone in the even that a fire alarm is tripped to allowing one to program his DVR to record his favorite TV show by accessing the control system with his cell phone. Though not commonly in use today, wireless home monitor/control systems are an emerging technology that has a very bright future.

Project Overview:

We decided to focus our research on three home systems that we found while doing our research. These systems include:

We also researched and found many products that currently are or could be used in a home automation/security system. We divided these products into two categories:

We also included backgroundinformation about the

Finally, we show where 'smart' home systems such as the three investigated are on the

Updated: November 8, 2006 7:00PM (WMW)