Vendors
- HAI, manufacturer of automation and security products
- Auton, motorized lifts
- ChannelPlus, whole-house video distribution systems
- Honeywell, Global Home Server that allows remote access to home over cell phone and Internet
- Echelon, manufacturer of intelligent environment networking and control products
Products
- Frigidaire has an intelligent refrigerator that will read the bar code of any product passed by the sensor, build a grocery list, and transmit the list to an online grocer.
- Electrolux also offers an intelligent refrigerator. This refrigerator contains a web-accessible camera inside, to allow the user to scan the contents of the refrigerator from any web site.
- Whirlpool and LifeFX are adding personalities to their refrigerators. These personalities appear in the form of lifelike images of people that provide reminders or other messages to home inhabitants as they access the refrigerator.
- Heritage development in Fort Worth has a connected neighborhood building automated houses
- V Sync Technology ofers an Internet-capable refrigerator
- The Smart Beverage Dispenser from AT&T links a coffee machine via a CORBA interface to an Active Badge system, so that a drink of one's choice is dispensed when the person approaches the machine.
- The Living Wallpaper idea from Philips replaces static wallpaper with intelligently controlled dynamic displays of sound and light. The Heart idea from Philips learns when to control devices based on a user's interests.
- Dyson and Electrolux are among the companies that are now offering robot vacuum cleaners.
- Friendly Robotics is now offering a solar-powered robot lawn mower that will cover the area specified by buried wiring.
- Westinghouse provides an environment including a sensor with a thermostat in each room that route the readings to a central site. This information can be used to optimally control the temperatures throughout the house.
- Toshiba is offering a wireles server for the home that uses Bluetooth technology.
- Ceiva offers a digital picture frame that allows pictures to be changed from the Ceiva Network.
- A student at Brunel University, UK, has developed a toaster that checks the weather at a specific location and burns onto the toast a symbol indicating the weather for that area.
- Xerox PARC offers a ZombieBoard whiteboard scanner that integrates multiple views of a room into one image for display.
