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Executive Summary: The objective of the report is to discuss major interior home technological trends in the next ten years. Networking, monitoring, automating, and digitalizing are the four major trends. I relied on "George Washington University Forecast", British Telecommunication exact timeline, the popular media "buzz", and my background as an engineer to identify the trends. Networking allows devices to use the information on the Internet to better perform their tasks. The development in monitoring is focused on "indoor location tracking", which can aid relatives to keep track of children, disabled, or elders from a distant. Automation is promising to introduce robots and systems that will relieve us from mundane tasks such as vacuuming or cleaning. Digitalization allows the integration of entertainment and communication devices, which will put you in the living room in front of a flat screen, rather than a boxed monitor. In short, the trends indicate that we will be able to control the home environment more, to access and monitor home from away, and to relieve ourselves from housekeeping. |