Building the Home of the Future-Now

摘要

With new home technologies, you can have your blinds automatically open at your idea of daybreak (not the sun's idea) or have a buzzer sound when your sump pump clicks, a thousand miles away, from a smartphone. You know the feeling when you are on your way to the airport and you ask yourself, "Did I turn off the iron?" or, "Is the front door locked?" With connected-home technologies, life can be less stressful, easier and efficient. Trends in home technology are tracked in the Consumer Electronics Association's (CEA) 12th Annual State of the Builder Technology Market Study. The National Association of Home Builders' Home Innovation Research Labs fielded the survey to a national panel of builders to assess installation of key home technologies in new housing starts.