---

Adapts to a room environment and uses the LMS algorithm to filter out unwanted background noise at known frequencies, which often interfere with voice-activated commands given to the home automation system.

Home Automation:

Creative Tecknology Smart Home’s planned home automation system will include the ability to remotely command by voice, devices such as lights, home theater, a centralized music library, and temperature control, in addition to providing a system for monitoring power and household events and managing security concerns.

Integrated Systems:

Automation and building-wide control within a building such as Creative Tecknology  Smart Home requires several specific criteria be met, such as reliability, flexibility, ease of integration, and functionality. In order to meet the requirements of Creative Tecknology  Smart Home, a decentralized system using Echelon’s LonWorks network was chosen and a prototype developed.

Sensor Platform:

Monitoring and reporting is central to Creative Tecknology  Smart Home. The sensors that drive this process must be placed on an extensible and comprehensive network that can report readings from multiple sensor types and provide relevant data to all other systems for processing. Interconnectivity is vital in order to implement a decentralized network where devices can talk to each other and share information. Flexibility is also vital to Creative Tecknology  Smart Home for research purposes. Logging takes place as 1-wire data is imported into an SQL database, and PHP web-based reports can be generated to alert occupants based on pre-set alarm levels.

Microphone Arrays: