Home Automation (HA) is the
concept of using
devices to make
living in your
home easier. For instance your home automation
system will likely
track your
movements in your
house (through
motion sensors, or perhaps
RFID), and turn
lights on and
off as you
move from
room to room.
Ideally, it would
alert you of
email and
phone messages awaiting your
response. You could
select music to be
played for
you, or a
tv show to
watch, and as you move about the music or show would
follow you.
It would also be
nice if your home
greeted you when you
entered with
pending messages. It could keep each room in the house at the
perfect temperature. It can
detect problems in the house (
fumes,
significant heat loss/
gain due to
open window/door, etc) and could
contain such problems by
closing off
ducts leading to problem areas. It could
handle house security,
notifying you of
intruders. It would also
freak the
intruders out as the lights went on and off as they moved around. It can handle
EVERYTHING for you.
Of course
electronics hobbyists have better HA systems than you. I know
I do.