4. Introduction
What is Smart Home?
– It is one of the applications of Smart technologies within our home, in
creating a comfortable home and an effective lifestyle;
– It improves automation control and monitoring of household devices and
– And connect via standard means of communication for its operation.
• Features of Smart Home
• Why Smart Home: the benefits
• Conclusion
5. Features of Smart Home
Few of the features include but limited to:
• Home Security System
• Controlled Exterior & Interior Lighting
• Automatic Window and Curtain
• Automatic Garage Door
• Distributed Entertainment Systems (Video and Audio systems)
• Intercom/Telephony Systems
• Home Energy management systems
6. Why Smart Home
Smart Home is applicable in various aspect of our home and environment to
suite our different preferences.
• Comfort or Ease of control
• Entertainment
• Security
• convenience at all times,
• lifestyle personalization and
• User friendly
7. Why Smart Home: Comfort/Ease of Control
Smart Home offers ease of controlling devices around the home. This is one
of its outstanding feature.
These features offers automation and remote control of devices around the
home from any location within such as.
• Automatic control of garage door and gate(s).
• Automatic shut down of appliance when not in use.
• Automatic setting and maintenance of right temperature for each room.
• Automatically adjust/ regulate light intensity based on room luminosity.
8. Why Smart Home: Health
SMART homes offers benefits for the disabled and elderly persons in the
various ways:
• Monitory systems
• Automated alarm systems directly connected to hospitals in cases of
incidents like a fall or collapse
• Alert systems for the notification on prescribed medications
9. Why Smart Home: Security
Security Camera
• Controlled motion sensitive cameras which allows for observation of activities
• Capture and record video surveillance.
Emergency
• Initiate emergency alarm or audible intruder alert
• Activate sprinkler and fire extinguishing system in case fire emergency
• Automatic de-activation of electric systems and activate emergency light
Controlled Access
• Granting access using finger print, eye or face recognition
• The System informs the user if a visitor is at the door; the owner can then grant or
deny access
10. Changes of Smart Home Technologies
Ethical questions about privacy and data protection on the Smart Home
devices
• Cost of implementation
• More vulnerabilities in the overall systems
• Complexities in the multiple functionality of the technology
11. Advantage
People can use the internet to speak and to communicate with family and
friends.
Used laptop for creating software.
It give us the latest and updated information in form of news of each and
every area or part of world.
Nothing more than a cellphone comes great help in emergency
Meals can be cooked quickly.
They make it easier to do math problems.
12. Disadvantage
It can viruses that leads losing important data.
It can cause your serious health problems.
It can damage your eyesight.
Some time the crime influenced movies give the idea for the execution of
crime in real life.
They sound can distract people around the world.
High risk of getting into accident.
Some people get so much addicted to cell phones for talking, messaging,
games, video and recording that they forget the real purpose of cell phone
and waste large part of their time in un necessary interaction over their cell
phone.
Nothing more can be a distraction for a teached in the classroom, when a
students phone rings.
13. Where are we heading
What is Technology?
The Technology Curriculum
The Three Strands Of Technology
Teaching Technology To Children.
14. Technology Overview
STRAND A=KNOW HOW=The practical part of technology the doing and
making.
STRAND B=KNOW THAT=The skills and terminology required for technology
in knowing what methods to use and when.
STRAND C=KNOW WHY=The history, background, research and impact of
technology in our society and on us.