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ENVIRONMENT AND YOUR HEALTH: THE SAFE, SMART HOUSE
Engineers are working to transform today's accident trap into a home of the future where the very walls do the safe thinking for you. They call it the "Smart House."
"The Smart House will help elderly people stay independent," says David MacFadyen, president of the National Association of Home Builders (NAHB) Research Foundation, which has encouraged the project's development. "And it will make life more comfortable and convenient for people of any age or physical condition."
The Smart House uses microchips to operate new safety gadgets, new wiring, and new materials. Still under development, Smart House could be the next building innovation. Parts of it already exist in some homes.
Our residences usually have electrical, telephone, thermostat, and doorbell wiring, water pipes, and heating and cooling systems. Some have gas delivered by pipe for heating and cooking. A growing number have television cables, anti-burglar systems, and fire alarms.
All these systems traditionally are independent of one another. The Smart House, however, has a central system designed at the request of the NAHB.
The Smart House will use one cable to carry electrical power, video, and audio signals and communications systems. If you use an electric iron with a shorted circuit, the Smart House will detect the "short" and shut off power to that appliance. If you turn on your stove with nothing on it or in it to cook and leave it unattended, the system will turn off the stove. Or if the oven is about to burn the cookies, the system will lower the heat or turn it off.
The system will turn lights on or off when you enter or leave a room, if that's the setting you select, or adjust the lighting to your taste. You may be able to give voice commands to the system: "Smart House, send heat to the upstairs bedroom."
With the fire and burglar systems interconnected, you'll get very early warnings of danger and be able to take quick action. If you are not home, the Smart House will telephone for help. Or it may respond to a special setting and turn on lights in response to a sudden noise.
David MacFadyen says the Smart House will cost the same as a regular house. Although the Smart House idea seems attractive it has not yet caught on with a wide public.
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