Nokia has announced a smart home platform, Nokia Home Control Center, offering the basis for next generation security, smart home solutions and household energy management systems.
Nokia Home Control Center is 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 says it supports the most common smart home technologies, including Z-Wave. It allows third parties to integrate their own smart home solutions and services.
It will allow consumers to monitor and control their electricity usage, switch devices on and off, and monitor different objects, such as temperature, camera, and motion. In future, entire systems within the home can be connected to the Nokia platform. All solutions based on Nokia Home Control Center can be used through a smart phone or PC locally or remotely.
"We see there is growth potential in the smart home market", said Teppo Paavola, Vice President, Head of Corporate Business Development, Nokia. "The home of today has intelligence everywhere, but to date there has not been a solution that is interoperable with wide range of home systems that can easily be controlled. We believe that the mobile device is an ideal interface to control home intelligence, especially when the user is not at home."
Nokia expects the solution to become commercially available by the end of 2009.
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