Smart Homes For Dummies
Chapter One
Mi Casa, Cool Casa
In This Chapter
* Looking at a day in the life of your wired home
* Understanding what goes into a wired home
* Quantifying the benefits of a home network
* Outlining the requirements for a home network
If you stop the average person on the street and start talking about home
networks, he or she would probably make references to ABC, CBS, NBC,
and FOX, or mention the Home Shopping Network or some other cable network
show. Network, until recently, has meant little else to most people.
But times, they are a changin'. The invasion of telecommunications into all
aspects of life is creating a different meaning of the word network. Most
people have had some contact with a network through their work environment - computer
local area networks (LANs) in the office, control networks
in factories, telephone networks in many mid-sized or larger businesses ...
heck, the Internet is a huge network.
You can think of networks simply as things that help you do your ... read full excerpt from Smart Homes For Dummies ebook
