For my professional blog review, I chose to review a blog about Bill Gate’s home, known as a “Smart House,” due to its entirely interactive system. The author of this blog is Amit Agarwal, who holds an Engineering degree in Computer Science from IIT and has previously worked with clients such as ADP, Goldman Sachs and Merrill Lynch. In 2004, Amit quit his job to become India’s first and only Professional Blogger. Amit authors the hugely popular and award winning Digital Inspiration blog where he writes about computer software, consumer gadgets, and web applications.
Upon reading his blog, I learned a multitude of information about Bill Gate’s house, located in a suburb of Medina, Washington, on the side of a hill overlooking Lake Washington. In this house there are miles of communication cable, largely fiber optic, running throughout, linking computer servers powered by the Windows NT operating system. Lights automatically come on when you come home. Speakers are hidden beneath the wallpaper to allow music to follow you from room to room. Portable touch pads control everything from the TV sets to the temperature and the lights, which brighten or dim to fit the occasion or to match the outdoor light. Upon entering his house, you are given a microchip, which sends signals throughout the house, and the conditions of the house such as lighting and temperature will change in accordance to the users preferences. And these are just naming a few of the features…
This blog was very informative to me because of how closely it relates to my product, The Glass of Tomorrow. Seeing that a house like this has already existed for so long gives me much more hope that a system like this can be implemented in mainstream society. The ideas are all the same, having a system that controls everything you do through touch panels. The only difference is that the surfaces of the touch panels will be everyday items like a mirror or a countertop. This blog gave me a lot of insight about the possibilities of my own product, and was interesting to read as well.
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