Smart Homes For Dummies (For Dummies (Lifestyles Paperback)) [Englisch] [Taschenbuch]

Make your home safer and increase its resale value
 
Create a fully automated,21st-century wired home that meets your family's needs
 
Want to live in a cutting-edge, fully connected home? Now you can design the powerhouse network of your dreams without breaking your bank account. From listening to CDs throughout the house to connecting your PC with your HDTV to watching your house over the Web, you'll discover all the latest trends and gadgets in home networking, automation, and control.
 
* Build your home network
*
 
Turn your home into an entertainment center
*
 
Access the Internet from any room
*
 
Boost in-home wireless and cell phone signals
*
 
Secure your home and property

Do you long to listen to your favorite CD from anywhere in your house? To set up a wireless network so you can access the Internet in any room? To install an iron clad security system? To fire up the coffee pot while you're still asleep and wake up with automated lighting? Smart home technology can help you do just that. "Smart Homes For Dummies, Third Edition", shows you how easy it can be to create and live in a cutting edge, fully connected home without breaking your bank account. With this user friendly guide, you'll discover all the latest trends and gadgets in home networking, automation, and control that will help you make life more enjoyable and comfortable for your entire family. We help you plan for things such as flat screen TVs, intercom systems, whole home audio systems, gaming consoles, and satellite systems. We talk about your wiring (and wireless) options and introduce you to the latest technologies, such as VoIP and Bluetooth.You'll see how to: build your home network on a budget; turn your home into an entertainment center; access the Internet from any room; get VoIP on your phone network; boost in home wireless and cell phone signals; connect your computer to your TV; secure your home and property; increase your home's resale value; avoid common networking pitfalls; and much, much more.

Complete with a resource list for more information and neat toys of the future, "Smart Homes For Dummies" is your plain English, twenty first century guide to a fully wired home.

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Smart Homes For Dummies® Brings Your Home into the Future

As we enter the 21st century, home automation is getting easier and more affordable. The intelligent home of the Jetsons is becoming less of a cartoon fantasy and more of a real-life reality. Whether building a new home, renovating an existing home, or just trying to install some leading-edge home improvements, then IDG Books Worldwide’s new book Smart Homes For Dummies will help homeowners enter the 21st century in Jetson’s style!

Building and wiring a smart home isn’t about vanity additions, it’s about incorporating technology to make living easier. A home computer LAN (local area network) enables the sharing of printers, modems, scanners and files to save money and time. With a little wiring and set-up, a home office or house with teenagers can take advantage of multiple phone lines, call transferring, conferencing and customized music on hold capabilities. With the friendly and easy-to-understand guidance of Smart Homes For Dummies, readers can take advantage of cutting-edge technologies that will enhance a home’s appeal and value. They can easily incorporate ideas such as:

* Many TVs and one VCR: Use an inexpensive coaxial cable or wireless network to connect multiple TVs to one VCR

* Watch a sleeping baby from the living room TV using networked “TV station” capabilities

* Run music through the house by re-purposing an intercom system

* Save $ on long-distance calls when a PC doubles as a phone

* Never forget a birthday or appointment by setting-up an automated audio reminder system using a PC and a home intercom

* Water the yard according to Internet weather forecasts with a smart sprinkler system

* Check on the kids from the office using the Internet

* Connect a home security system to a pager for instant notification

As with all …For Dummies® titles, Smart Homes For Dummies contains the popular and informative Parts of Tens which details Ten Neat Things You Can Network Now, Ten Hints For Designing a “Futureproofed” Home, Ten Great Web Resources, and Ten Print Publications to Get Your Hands On. Also included is a description of some of the ultra-cool smart home additions in Bill Gates’ super-home!

**About the Authors** Danny Briere is a regular commentator on CNN and the author of more than one thousand articles and four books, including Internet Telephony For Dummies®. He is the founder and president of TeleChoice, Inc., a telecommunications consulting company.

Pat Hurley, a TeleChoice, Inc. analyst and coauthor of Internet Telephony For Dummies®, is a noted expert in home networking and related technologies, including high-speed Internet access via cable modem. -- Dieser Text bezieht sich auf eine andere Ausgabe: Taschenbuch .

Make your home safer and increase its resale value
 
Create a fully automated,21st-century wired home that meets your family's needs
 
Want to live in a cutting-edge, fully connected home? Now you can design the powerhouse network of your dreams without breaking your bank account. From listening to CDs throughout the house to connecting your PC with your HDTV to watching your house over the Web, you'll discover all the latest trends and gadgets in home networking, automation, and control.
 
* Build your home network
*
 
Turn your home into an entertainment center
*
 
Access the Internet from any room
*
 
Boost in-home wireless and cell phone signals
*
 
Secure your home and property

Danny Briere founded TeleChoice, Inc., a telecommunications consulting company, in 1985 and now serves as CEO of the company. Widely known throughout the telecommunications and networking industry, Danny has written more than one thousand articles about telecommunications topics and has authored or edited ten books, including Internet Telephony For Dummies, Wireless Home Networking For Dummies (now in its second edition), Wireless Hacks and Mods for Dummies, Windows XP Media Center Edition 2004 PC For Dummies, and Home Theater For Dummies. He is frequently quoted by leading publications on telecommunications and technology topics and can often be seen on major TV networks, providing analysis on the latest communications news and breakthroughs. Danny splits his time between Mansfield Center, Connecticut, and his island home on Great Diamond Island, Maine, with his wife and four children.
 
Pat Hurley is Director of Research with TeleChoice, Inc., and specializes in emerging telecommunications and digital home technologies, particularly in all the latest consumer electronics, access gear, and home technologies, including wireless LANs, DSL, cable modems, satellite services, and homenetworking services. Pat frequently consults with the leading telecommunications carriers, equipment vendors, consumer goods manufacturers, and other players in the telecommunications and consumer electronics industries. Pat is the coauthor of Internet Telephony For Dummies, Smart Homes For Dummies, Wireless Home Networking For Dummies, Wireless Hacks and Mods for Dummies, Windows XP Media Center Edition 2004 PC For Dummies, and Home Theater For Dummies. He lives in San Diego, California, with his wife, a fiery red-headed toddler named Annabel, and two smelly dogs.