RPCs over Power Lines for Remote Appliance Control (#00001)

Selling points: Future automation of home activities will require coordination amongst several sensing technologies and passive control of home appliances. As an example, when you enter your house from the garage door (after having opened and closed the garage door), your answering machine should automatically start playing your missed messages. In the enterprise, lights and other appliances could be programmed to turn off in the interests of energy consumption and cost savings.

With the advent of LAN network cards that can transmit over power line media, appliance coordination can be made possible by outfitting appliances with network receivers that export their physical interface. For example, microwaves should allow control of the time and power of "nuke", and should also be able to transmit an alert when the heating is completed to central home server that would be reponsible for forwarding this alert to the user.

Issuing RPCs to appliances over power lines are at the center of this vision, and will easily be a key part of any future home automation system.

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