Home Automation and Building Automation Are Two Worlds (1)

So far, most people think that the origin of smart homes is later than that of smart buildings, and that the first smart building is the birthplace of smart homes, and I do not agree with this ship-hee. Let us first look at history. In 1984, United Technologies Building System applied the concept of building equipment informationization and integration to the City Place Building in Hartford, Conn. "Intelligent Architecture" has since opened the prelude to worldwide competition for the construction of smart buildings. The core technology of smart buildings is the core of smart homes, the predecessor of home automation. Therefore, the rise and application of smart buildings provide key technologies for the popularization of smart home applications. That is, since then, smart home technologies represented by home automation have been rapidly developed, especially the emergence of the X-10. But don't forget that as early as 1966, humans began the exploration of smart homes, which is far earlier than the exploration of smart buildings.

The first experimental smart home system emerged in 1966 as Electronic Computer and was assembled by Jim Sutherland, an engineer at Westinghouse.

This home computer is large in size and occupies the size of four closets. There is an IBM Selectric input and output typewriter in the kitchen, a keyboard in the living room, and a binary clock in the quad room of the house. Among them, the three are at the same height or similar height as the door, and the fourth one is actually placed on the ceiling of the master bedroom! The ceiling clock allows Jim Sutherland to monitor the computer's operating status overnight.

In this photo, Jim Sutherland sits in front of the ECHO console. Her wife puts a raincoat on her daughter Sally. The shot is meant to tell everyone that the home computer can predict the weather; the daily supplies in front of the two sons are expressed. It is expected that home computers can carry out parity analysis and tracking of daily necessities. In fact, this home computer at the time could not achieve these goals.

Not only in origin, smart homes and smart buildings (especially building automation systems) have their own different backgrounds and methods, and the development in the past two decades has also proved that smart buildings in the smart building automation brand in the field of smart home Has not yet found the direction of their own force, such as Siemens has so far basically launched a successful smart home system, Johnson Controls does not step into the smart home field, in the top three building automation, only Honeywell Seoul has been insisting on product research and development and marketing. After nearly five years of continuous investment in China, it has finally gained high recognition in the market in 2014. It is the home improvement laboratory's smart home brand index monitoring list in January 2014. The sixth place in the rankings has already become quite famous from the unknown five years ago. However, we believe that this is only a case and does not represent the success of the entire building automation industry in the smart home industry.

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