Wired for house of the future
May 2001
 The home of the future - including the most intelligent use of new
and emerging technologies - has long been a dream of the IT set. Now the future is here -
in the form of the world's first Smart Wired house.
The smart house, in the GreenSmart Village at Homeworld
in Kellyville, Sydney, uses standardised, independent wiring to form the home's central
nervous system. This handles all the telecommunication, information, automation and energy
efficiency features that are expected in homes of the 21st century.
Clever homes - designed to incorporate the latest
developing trends - often use copper pair wiring and cabling to make it possible to run
all telecommunications and household functions including security, audio, lighting, water
and heating systems.
Home automation using structured wiring and Internet
connectivity is expected to be standard issue in homes of the future, allowing consumers
to control a totally linked home network using keypad codes, phones, televisions or the
computer.
The market in Australia is also expected to be strong. In
Australia, about 135,000 new homes built this year will be smart wired for
telecommunications and lighting, with a more gradual uptake of other options.
Meanwhile, builders in South Australia got a glimpse of
the future in home construction at the launch of the Smart Wired Housing project in
Adelaide recently.
"The Smart Wired house is the first major
technological breakthrough to occur in the building industry in the last fifteen
years", said John Fennell, CEO of the Copper Development Centre, Australia.
Mr Fennell launched The Smart Wired House to South
Australia's major builders at the Radisson Playford Hotel, Adelaide on April 2. The Smart
Wired™ House is a joint project between the Copper Development Centre. Australia,
Housing Industry Association (HIA), NECA, Telstra, LG Electronics, Clipsal, Krone, HPM,
Pirelli, UNICable, Belden, Switched On Living and Cisco Systems.
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