Book: Home 2030

Inspiration and Examples on building The Intelligent Home of Year 2030, Today!

Home 2030 is a book project by Sondre Bjellås. The goal and purpose of the book is to give you inspiration and concrete examples on how you can start improving your own home with home automation, using today's technologies. Book will show you how you can achieve today, what will be common-place in the 2030 and beyond. This won't be a full blueprint on how you should build your project, but an excellent way to get inspiration, examples and guidance on how to make your own individual home that way you want it.

(Book is currently in research and planning phase, planned to be completed sometime 2010)

I'm actively looking for corporations that is interested having their products and technologies featured in the book, so feel free to contact me regarding your company and products. Everything that is related to intelligent and smart homes is of interest.

Contents (Preliminary book structure)

Introduction
Part One: Endless Possibilities
1. Technological Progress and Capabilities
2. Envisioning a Seamless Future
3. Gadgets and Computers
4. The Bedroom
5. The Kitchen
6. The Bathroom
7. The Livingroom
Part Two: Planning Your Home Automation
1. Tools for Planning
Part Three: Practical Examples
1. Sensory Home Input
2. Orchestrating Intelligent Behaviors
3. Controlling Everything with Motion
4. Intelligent Photoframe
5. Give Your Home a Brain

Examples

Examples in the book will be built using Microsoft Visual Studio and Microsoft Robotics Developer Studio and will be built on a Windows platform.

Microsoft Visual Studio

Microsoft Robotics Developer Studio (RDS)

Resources

Here is a compilation of resources (links, magazine, etc.) that I've gathered to help me with the project. Listing them here so it can be useful for others.

Robot Magazine
This is a very good and important magazine that has all the latest and greatest information about robotics.

CodingForFun
Great blog with lots of inspiring examples and code.