Hi, this is Wayne again with a topic “Designing the brain of the Home of the Future with Grant Imahara”.
( upbeat music, ), Getting smart home technology for a home of the future has never been easier.. There are smart versions of just about every household item., Smart lights, smart speakers, even a smart refrigerator., But connecting them all together to make a truly smarter home can be a nightmare.. So how do we connect the home of the future? Well, you need a serious brain. Like this thing. And to integrate, it requires some serious brain power..
Pete Sandford is the owner of Smarter Homes, a company that helps to customize and maintain home automation. Systems. He’s what’s known as an integrator, and his role is to bring all the smart devices of the home together, which is essential for the home of the future. We’Re building here in Austin Texas.’Cause we’ve got a truckload of cutting edge technology to install.. This is probably 25 % of what’s gon na come and make the home of the future. You’re kidding. Me., The home of the future has a lot of stuff in it., [, Pete, ] Yeah takes a lot of parts and pieces and everything’s got ta speak the same. Language.
[ Grant ] Wow, that’s a lotta languages. [ Pete ], Oh yeah., [, Grant ] Someday. These devices might be fluent right out of the box., But for now we need an integrator like Pete to give the different dialects universal language.
And even a tech savvy guy. Like me, who’s more than capable of installing his own smart devices would have his hands full. Trying to unify everything. Over the next month or so Pete and his team will work to wire the home to handle all the smart technology we’re packing into it.. Now maybe you’re thinking “ Wires Shouldn’t our future, be more wireless ?”, While there’s some promising developments in wireless power, we’re still years away from having anything reliable enough to even consider installing in our home..
So, instead for Pete and his team, their goal is to make these wires invisible. So Peter. This is the moment of truth.. I mean last time I was here. This was just a hole in the wall with a bunch of wires coming out of it, and now we have the super computer brain of our house.. I mean when I think, of a super computer, I think of War Games and the whopper computer, the ( making whirring sound ), But this is gorgeous. What’s inside here Everything.. This is as good as it gets when we’re talking smart home technology.. So here we’ve got our two Sonos players for feeding the indoor and outdoor audio, our Wattbox, which is acting as a cutoff for power to each individual piece of equipment.. We’Ve got our Luxul switch, which is feeding network to all the individual pieces of components..
We’Ve also got our AT .