Saturday, 1 October 2011

Smart homes: take remote control | Money | The Guardian

Smart homes: take remote control | Money | The Guardian

You get out of work early for once. How good would it be to be able to turn on your central heating before you get home so it's all toasty as you step through the door? Or you left for work in a hurry, and are worried that the hair straighteners are still plugged in. What a relief it would be to turn them off en-route using your mobile phone?

It might sound like something from Tomorrow's World, but both prospects are closer than you think.

In the next few months British Gas is set to start the first big trial of "smart home" technology, and, if all goes well, it plans to begin installing it commercially in customers' UK homes over the next year.

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