Smarthouse - Control Your Home with Your PC (Paperback)

A practical, money-saving guide for home-owners designed to turn a home computer into a household control panel, programmed to interactively operate appliances, lights, entertainment systems, alarms and other electrical equipment at determined intervals. This guide provides all the hardware information, circuit diagrams and program code needed to make home-control interfaces work. Readers can learn how to design and implement a variety of intelligent, home remote-control systems, thus making their homes more convenient, secure and energy efficient.