Smart Home Technology

Think about your daily habits, from making coffee and toast in the morning, to preparing dinner and getting ready for bed. Researchers are developing sensors that can learn and track these patterns. So in the near future your home could send you a text message if you left the oven on, play your favorite song when you walk in the door, and advise you on where to reduce your energy use.

The smart home market is expected to grow to nearly $10 billion worldwide by 2010. For more we're turning to Diane Cook. She's a professor in electrical engineering and computer science at Washington State University in Pullman. She's been working on smart home technology for close to a decade, and joins us talk about how the elderly and disabled could benefit from this technology.

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