What is your homes IQ?

This world is becoming extremely technology dependent. Why not make your home do everything at a touch of a button from your smart phone or a remote control? By connecting your homes devices and appliances you easily start the oven from the office to preheat while on your way home, turn lights on and off while on vacation, control the directions of the exterior cameras, flip the alarm on, turn the heat or ac on within seconds, etc. There are many benefits to getting a “Smart” home: energy efficient savings, lights can be programmed to turn off automatically when the resident leaves a room, obtain the full movie theater experience with sound and auto dimming  programmable climate controlled settings specific to each room in the house, tracking devices help the elderly in case of a fall, systems can remind residence of programmed reminders, several different users that have different abilities to access settings, ability to lock doors and gates remotely, programmable yard watering/sprinkler system start-stop, the potential goes on and on for what your home could do with the technology.  Although the system is impressive there are some down falls such as technology literacy by residents that are not as tech savvy, hackers- they are getting smarter every day, system failure/programming issues, extremely expensive- few can afford the top of the line whole house automation. The thought of a “Smart” home appears to be similar to the creator of the Jetson’s cartoon home. Check out the below video of a smart home and everything it can do.  Technology homes of the future, Bill Gates home: