Sci-fi comes home Maury Wright and Warren Webb, Technical Editors
Though it still a long way from providing the level of luxury available in the 1960s cartoon "The Jetsons," home automation is making progress.
From EDN Europe: Digital video TV comes into focus By David Marsh, Contributing Technical Editor
From shaky beginnings, digital television takes off big time. While broadcasters fight for market control, semiconductor manufacturers face the challenge of producing millions of flexible low-cost chip sets for cable, satellite, and terrestrial delivery systems.
Consumer bus defends home turf
By Warren Webb, Technical Editor
In the face of competition from buses intended for commercial control, the CEBus performs where it was meant to-in home automation. This hands-on project shows how CEBus works and what it can do.
Home invasion: Commercial networks move
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By Maury Wright, Technical Editor
Although LonWorks is popular in commercial building-control applications, it may also prove to be the best choice for home automation. To evaluate this possibility, I decided to check it out myself.
