What is Home Automation Technology?
Like digital signage, home automation technology has been around for some time. Also strikingly coincidental is the fact that both technologies are maturing at about the same time. What do I mean by maturing? Both industries are being forced to adapt business strategies away from the elite and focus them on on the emerging “long tail,” the mainstream, so to speak. Home automation is a term that should be at least somewhat self-explanatory. But to more get specific, home automation seeks to simplify the digital landscape that often clutters the American family household. Specifically, home automation systems simplify, integrate and automate (doy!) home theater/audio, HVAC, security, sprinkler, and lighting systems. In doing this, automation systems generally have a centralized management interface with a remote control. Home automation represents the peak of convenience, and even laziness. Imagine that you wish to watch a movie on your home theater. You can have the lights dim, the curt
