References/Control Systems

From Drexel Smart House

Introduction

From LinuxMCE:

• Home Automation: Control lighting, climate, security, camera surveillance, and more
• Communication: Phone system with auto-attendant, voice mail, call forwarding/routing for VOIP and POTS lines
• Security: Uses your existing home alarm, surveillance cameras, lights, phones and tv's to notify you on your mobile phone of any security alerts with the option of reseting the alarm or broadcasting your voice in the house over the tv's

Summary

One way of creating the backbone are through clusters, a group of loosely coupled computers that act together to provide processing power that exceeds a stand-alone computer. The use of loosely coupled computers is known as distributed computing, a method of computer processing where programs are broken down and processed on separate networked computers. The advantages of this method over a stand-alone computer are as follows: openness (the ability for a system to interact with another system), scalability, and increased overall processing efficiency.