Smart homes workbook
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The document discusses a school project about homes of the future. Students will look at existing home technologies, technologies that may exist in future homes, and design their ideal smart home. They will research smart home devices and their benefits, design floor plans for their dream smart home, and write a report analyzing one emerging smart home technology. The project aims to teach students about technologies that could feature in future homes and societies.
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Smart homes workbook
- 1. Homes of the Future Project Name: Class: Teacher:
- 2. About the project: All of our homes are filled with a vast amount of technology. Most of you have televisions, DVD players, computers, telephone answering machines, washing machines, central heating and burglar alarm systems. New advances are being made all the time and what is currently considered as belonging to the realm of science fiction may soon become the gadgets of tomorrow. In this unit, we will look at some technology which currently exists in homes, what technology will be there in the future and what your ideal home would look like. If you are working towards level 4 you should be able to Put together different types of information (e.g. pictures of smart homes and some text). Use an application to draw simple plans of a two-three rooms of your Smart Home. Use the internet to do a basic search to find out about Smart Homes. Store all your work in a specific Smart Homes folder which is in My Documents. Name your work with appropriate names. Write very basically about technology and why it is used. If you are working towards level 5c+ you should be able to Think and chose carefully software to create fully detailed plans of a smart home and what technology would be used. Search the internet effectively to find information quickly by narrowing down my search. Finding information, and can tell whether information is accurate or not. Save my work in an organised folder structure within My Documents. Write in a detailed way about Smart Home technology and how it can be used. Talk about how the unit will help you in future units. Check my progress as I work, and make changes as I go to improve my work. Talk about how ICT can be used in future homes in a detailed way, discussing the benefits and drawbacks upon people in society. 2
- 3. Task 1: Existing Advanced Technology Here are some existing technologies which are used in a home. For each one, find a picture, say what they are used for and what benefits it brings to the people who use them. You will need to use the internet to help you. Device Picture What is it used Benefits to people for? who use them? Sky+ Nintendo Wii DVD Recorder Wireless Picture Frame Wireless Router HD-TV VOIP Phone Windows Home Server Task 2a: Smart Homes 3
- 4. What do you think a smart home is? Use Google Define to find a definition (e.g. Define Pizza) A Smart Home is Task 2b: Smart Home Pictures Using an appropriate Picture Search Engine, find some pictures of some Smart Homes and paste them below. Some pictures of Smart Homes are 4
- 5. Task 3: Smart Home Research: Undertake some research to find out what the home of tomorrow may be like. In the table below, find five different pieces of technology which could be in a Smart Home and say what they would be used for. Device Picture (paste one What is it used Benefits to people in) for? who use them? 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. Here are a few links to get you started (hold CTRL+ CLICK) http://www.teach-ict.com/news/news_stories/news_smart_home.htm http://library.thinkquest.org/CR0213643/tech.htm http://articles.castelarhost.com/smart_home_technology.htm http://nweb.waymaker.se/bitonline/2000/09/11/20000911BIT00760/09110076.htm http://www.macnewsworld.com/story/31239.html 5
- 6. Task 4: Your Smart Home What if you were buying your own Smart Home? What would you put in it? Using software of your choice, design a plan of what each room in your house would have in it. Remember, to have the best Smart Home Technology. An example is below: Kitchen: Self cleaning Electronic Window (digital views) Auto-open oven draws and cupboards Computerised when Fridge approach Auto-raise from Video Phone the floor table Plasma TV and chairs. Washer / Auto-open Dryer and draws and Auto-Ironing Also in the room: cupboards Auto-open - Wireless music when draws and approach - Mood lights cupboards Auto-Dog when feeder approach Software you could use Serif DrawPlus Microsoft Word Microsoft Publisher Serif PagePlus Microsoft Paint Any other software 6
- 7. Task 5 Extended Report: Assessment By now you have looked at a range of different pieces of technology which could be used in society. You now need to pick one and write a short report about them. What the piece of technology is you are writing about. What is it used for. Who would use it How much would is cost (estimated) What the benefits would be of using the piece of technology. What the drawbacks would be of using the piece of technology. When do you think the technology would be made available. Your overall opinion of the technology and whether you see it taking off (WITH REASONS). Your report should be one page or more. Remember to acknowledge your sources and you can use pictures if needed. You cannot copy and paste text off the internet. 7