Digital Home, the Future Home

What do you have in mind regarding future home? In many answers, we have something in common, the need of digital home. Some researcher says that it is the beginning of the end of television era.

According to Roger Geerts, director of systems engineering Australia and New Zealand at Juniper Networks, the network into the home is being driven by consumer demand for content on devices such as TV and advances in delivery via devices such as personal recorders and video on demand.

“While we don’t have the broadband speeds needed yet, in five years the only thing that you would watch as a TV broadcast is sporting events that make sense
to see live."

The concern of of this kind of future home by applying home network is entertainment.

Vincent Kennedy, chief engineer networking applications group at NEC, said the main drivers for home networking in Australia are centred on entertainment.

although he has added another components.

"... the network can be used for voice networks and typically merging applications such as voice IP and video IP and appliances such as airconditioners, also IP controlled."

Much of the technology is already available in the form of technologies such as broadband delivery via electricity cables. David Cannon, program manager for communications at researcher IDC, said the challenge for delivering technology for a smart home is to do so using existing infrastructure and delivering broadband over electricity cables goes a long way in achieving that end.

“The digital home from my perspective really should focus on digital entertainment rather than telling you when to buy milk etcetera, which although a good concept is small bickies compared to what I am talking about."

What we say in this topic is in the near future, digital home in our soonest future is home with multimedia entertainment connected with the network, although some supplier has think about other possibilities.

The article is taken from a long report from CRN Australia here