From Nokia:
Nokia Home Control Center – My home is where my phone is. Nokia Home Control Center is a solution based on an open Linux based platform enabling the home owner to build a technology-neutral smart home that can be controlled with a mobile phone, using a unified user interface. Nokia Home Control Center supports the most common smart home technologies, including Z-Wave as well as enabling the incorporation for proprietary technologies. Thus, it allows third parties to develop their own solutions and services on top of the platform, expanding the system to support new services and smart home technologies.
From CNET News:
Wouldn’t it be nice if you could manage all your home appliances, electronics, entertainment, and security, plus your climate control system, from your mobile phone? That is exactly what Nokia is promising with its Home Control Center solution.
The beauty of this Linux-based platform is its comprehensive compatibility with most existing smart home technologies. This allows a unified user interface for these competing offerings which can be conveniently accessed from a mobile phone and Web browser.
Though detailed implementation of the Nokia Home Control Center is sketchy at the moment, the system seems to be centered on a miniature gateway (PDF) featuring Wi-Fi, GSM, GRPS, and Z-Wave wireless connectivity.
Another function that caught our attention was its remote access capability. This should give users the added convenience of accessing their home gadgets from the office, in the car on the way home, etc. That’s not all. Did we mention Web, media and e-mail server expansion options, as well?
At BECC, there was a lot of interest in utilizing the cell phone as an access point to energy information; however, many of these solutions seem to be a long way off. One quick and easy approach is simply to create a mobile-phone compatible design of a “home internet portal.” However, the mobile phone, as a device that is nearly always with us, close and personal, could offer so much more than a mobile browser of data from personalized information to real-time alert functionality. Certainly, the mobile phone seems relevant to any discussion of monitoring transit activity–does this relevancy translate to all aspects of our carbon footprints?
